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<p>[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 8011711, member: 78949"]Thank you so much, Any, for all the tips and terminology you provided! I do appreciate it, and will remember your advice for sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Turns out some things were common in both worlds. The difference is, I guess, that in our world these crafts people were approved by the communist government and institutionalised through the membership in the central body, thus administratively limiting their number and increasing the prices of their products which gave them the opportunity for good earning, more than the average. It was a big deal to be accepted in the National Academy of Arts, very high competition, as it was the only road to the membership in the Union of Artists and thus to good earnings from crafts for those who made jewelry, pottery, leather items, wall carpets (or tapestry??) etc. Deficit and lack of competition leading to high prices (for the local standard of living); they sold at prices of precious metal jewelry abroad (low to mid end, not Cartier or Tiffany). Higher league were the artists who made busts and portraits of communist leaders and ideologically "right" paintings and murals, they were on the top of the society by income, comparable with the nomenclature. All these had hard times after the change.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 8011711, member: 78949"]Thank you so much, Any, for all the tips and terminology you provided! I do appreciate it, and will remember your advice for sure. Turns out some things were common in both worlds. The difference is, I guess, that in our world these crafts people were approved by the communist government and institutionalised through the membership in the central body, thus administratively limiting their number and increasing the prices of their products which gave them the opportunity for good earning, more than the average. It was a big deal to be accepted in the National Academy of Arts, very high competition, as it was the only road to the membership in the Union of Artists and thus to good earnings from crafts for those who made jewelry, pottery, leather items, wall carpets (or tapestry??) etc. Deficit and lack of competition leading to high prices (for the local standard of living); they sold at prices of precious metal jewelry abroad (low to mid end, not Cartier or Tiffany). Higher league were the artists who made busts and portraits of communist leaders and ideologically "right" paintings and murals, they were on the top of the society by income, comparable with the nomenclature. All these had hard times after the change.[/QUOTE]
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