Show all images on one page	#002028 Title: Confectioners.... Artist: Molodkin Daniil Size: 17x10x4 Size (inches): 6.75x4x1.5 Price : $900 SOLD!

Daniil Molodkin from Mstera painted this exceptional box. Daniil is one of the most popular Russian lacquer artists in North America. The fresh view on the world that he spins into every one of his works, is a marvelous portrayal of not only his creativity, but of his desire to make the world a more beautiful place. He shows us a side of this world that is below our feet. In the grasses there are innumerable insects and tiny animals doing things we never see. By painting them, and fictional grasspeople into an enlarged grassy setting, he provides his audience a twist or curve in logical thinking. This forces us to reexamine how we look at things everyday, which we take for granted: like a large grassy field.
Having painted this unusual scene, Daniil continues his series of works showing fantastic creatures - little blue dwarfs who live in grass world act absolutely like people do. They live in towns, and have different professions. They can be hunters, scientists, fishermen, doctors, etc. This scene, for example, shows the dwarfs-confectioners. One of them drops fresh berries and bugs into separate tubes of the fantastic confectionary machine. These bugs and berries are mixed inside the machine, different aromatizers are added through another tube, and, what a wonder, tasty sweets of different shape and wrapped in bright multicolored paper pull out of the large tube. Another dwarf takes out the sweets and drops sugar and aromatizers.
Blue, yellow and red tones dominate here. Gold as always, is used to enhance the details in the box and to fully bring the colors to life. The clothes of the gnomes are expertly detailed with a wide variety of flowered and geometric designs. The confectionary machine is thoroughly designed, and skillfully detailed. Besides the main characters the composition is filled with dozens of various plants and insects.
The box is made out of paper-mache. Black lacquer covers the exterior and red lacquer covers the interior of the box. A gold foliage pattern frames the composition, and this same pattern (only accented with aluminum paints) decorates the sides of the box. The lid is hinged from the top of the composition, and the box rests on four legs. The work is signed, titled ("Confectioners") at the bottom of the composition.