El Lago de los Cisnes, The Swan Lake

Made by request, our version of The Swan Princess inspired in Marina Bychkova's work.

Original art doll by Marina bychkova

Many years ago we saw for the first time a little and misterious porcelain doll, a precious work of art by Marina Bychkova.  We were astound by that particular articulated sculpture and , having being for many years artisans using mixed media, as a continuation for our art  we decided to become dollmakers and make our own porcelain dolls. We are since then exploring the new posibilities of such a complex discipline and when a customer ask us for a doll in certain style, we do not hesitate into accept.

  Marina has been always our inspiration and guide, as well for many other dollartists. Her work literally changed our lives, no one but us respects more her work and that is something we repetedly have admitted. Each request of this kind from a customer, means for us the oportunitie to study and to progress; even if it sounds contradictory, to make a fan art means the oportunitie to develop your own style. For example, for many time I made the tattoos only painted, but now I'm making all of them engraved. The embroidered crown tooks me too much more hours thant I thinked originally and then I had to think how to assemble it and give its final shape. We not only learned through all that extra work but also made us to aprecciatte even more the quality and detail in Marina´s work . All that effort makes me think in how amazingly delicate and excellent is her work , how tall she puts the level for all of us, we have been making dolls for several years and we still feel like principiants in comparison.
 Every artist in this world feeds on the work of other artists, and in the process of took the main elements and revise them in their own way, every one obtains an unique result.

 Some people, nevertheless, gets offended by our work and claimed unjustifiedly that  it was a flagrant copy.

 It is not a duplicate, if it were, it would be an exact copy and it is not the case,  beggining for the materials employed to the execution and the final shape.. The body and head sculptures are our original design and  many samples of the Malena body can be seen in this blog and in our main facebook page, enough to realize that is not a copy of a Marina's doll or of any other doll; the crown is inspired in fact in the crown made by Marina (who made it inspired in the work of another artist, as she mention in her blog) and that is perfectly illustrated by the process pictures, and the veil is a white embroidered bride tulle far away from being equal to the original embroidered by Marina. Our doll includes also an engraved swan tattoo in her back, a mask and a black wig, all details stablished by the customer.

This is an inspired work, not a copy.  We are not claiming this is  our idea, is perfectly clear who made the original one, but this doll in particular is in fact ours and we are the ones who executed the work from the beginning to the end from scratch. We are not recasting pieces, not selling the doll as if it were an original Marina's doll (not to mention asking for her what a Marina's dolls really values) and certainly we are not claiming this is our original idea at all. 

Made by request, our own version of The Swan Princess .

Made by request, our own version of The Swan Princess .

Made by request, our own version of The Swan Princess .

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