Show all images on one page	#001686 Title: Tea drinking Artist: Molodkin Denis Size: 14x10.5x5 Size (inches): 5.5x4.25x2 Price : $685 SOLD!

This interesting composition is the design of Mstera artist Denis Molodkin. Denis comes from a family of miniaturists--his father Vladimir, his mother, and brother Daniil all paint. Skill runs in the family, as this unique composition shows. Denis has combined texture and color to create a very vivid scene showing a peasant and an alien drinking tea. At first sight this scene seems to be a humorous one, but if you look at it more attentively you'll see that it is rather symbolic. It's cold winter night and the full moon shines dimly illuminating the small village depicted in the foreground and the hill where the strange couple sit. If you visually divide the composition into two parts, you'll see that the left side includes the things that may be related to the world of human beings: the village, the church and the peasant; whereas the right side shows the things of fantastic nature: the alien, his spaceship and the moon that symbolizes the space. There is the friendly bonfire that unifies these two parts and shines brightly in the darkness of a night.
Different shades of green, blue and brown dominate here. Gold detailing is used reservedly and subtly, but with nice effects on the windows and on the bonfire. Each element of the composition is expertly detailed, especially the alien's space-suit and spaceship.
The box is constructed of high-grade papier mache in the village of Mstera. A thin line of gold paint defines the border of the intricate painting on the lid. A band of gold foliage filigree frames the composition. A similar band decorates the sides of the box. The lid is hinged to the top of the composition and the bottom rests on four legs. The artist has signed and dated the box: Mstera, 2003, "Tea Drinking" in the lower left corner, Denis Moloding in the lower right corner of the lid, beneath the picture.