Wonderful c. 1940s Soviet Folk Art Photo Portrait of a Young Soldier painting of nude with white slip trail lettering

with white slip trail lettering against nearly black grainy clay looking like the  icing decorating someone's chocolate birthday cake (or mayonnaise squeezed onto pumpernickel

gorgeous wood

and this one beautifully

The kin of these Japanese nesting eggs are the treen apples one sees around from time to time housing a spinning horse race game inside

Wonderful c. 1940s Soviet Folk Art Photo Portrait of a Young Soldier painting of nude with white slip trail letteringI've been trying to find something written about folk art Soviet military snapshot portraits of this sort but have turned up nothing. There are other examples out there, which it seems most apt to describe as a form of trench art, since from what I've found they were limited to portraits of soldiers, who decorated the borders around their portraits, as here (those flourishes embedded in the print, not drawn on top.) I really love the effect, executed