Russian Lubok

The lubok is the Russian popular woodcut — cheap, vivid folk broadsheets hawked at fairs from the 17th century on. A black block-printed outline was struck on coarse rag paper, then washed by hand with tempera thinned to a watercolor, so the color happily overruns the line. Each sheet marries a bold narrative scene to looping Cyrillic captions in a joyful, deliberately unrefined hand. Restricted to three or four colors, it is folk storytelling made print: naive figures, beasts and ornament, framed in caption banners and never quite registered.

卢博克（лубок）是俄罗斯的民间木刻版画——从十七世纪起便在集市上叫卖的廉价彩色 大幅单张。先用黑色木版在粗糙的破布纸上压出墨线轮廓，再以稀释成水彩般的蛋彩 手工填色，于是颜色总是欢快地漫出线外，永远对不准版。

每张图把大胆的叙事场景与蜿蜒的西里尔字母题词配在一起，笔触粗朴而喜气。色彩 只用三四种，画面是天真的人物、走兽与花饰，框在题词横幅里。它后来成为冈察洛娃、 拉里奥诺夫等先锋派画家的灵感源头——民间叙事被印成了版画。