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“Tottenham Court Road” Paolozzi, originally uploaded by HoolyPics.
smalti & vitreous tile mosaic texture & tesserae detail.
Mosaic Art Source mosaic definition:
smalti
smalto (pl. smalti) - smalti is characterized by its dazzling range of brilliant opaque colors. Smalti is prepared by adding crystalline material (corpo) and coloured material (anima) to the colourless or coloured fused glass. Smalti is literally available in thousands of colors, is a very stable glass, easy to cut and very durable. m.a.s. mosaic glossary
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tesserae - small, usually square pieces of glass or other material used to make a mosaic. Their size generally ranges from a few millimetres to two centimetres long and five to ten millimetres thick. The term derives from the Greek word meaning “four-sided”. m.a.s. mosaic glossary
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TCR tube mosaic on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
vitreous tile mosaic texture & tesserae detail
Mosaic Art Source mosaic definition:
vitreous tile
vitreous tile - square glass mosaic tiles most commonly 3/4″ x 3/4″ made in molds from glass paste. They have a smooth top but the bottom is keyed with ridges for better adhesion. m.a.s.mosaic glossary
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Dancing on the ceiling, originally uploaded by iheartfinn.
DSC_0278 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
paolozzi mosaic artwork in totteham court road tube station
DSC_0279 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
paolozzi mosaic signature 1982
E. Paolozzi 1984 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Tottenham Court Road underground
paolozzi fly-by on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
1000s of people a micro-second passing through this london underground station.. no-one took time to look at the lovely Paolozzi mosaics… shame
Recreation of Eduardo Paolozzi’s studio on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Recreation of the late Paolozzi’s bedroom/studio just one year before his death. God bless his soul.
Who was Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi?
Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi CBE FRA (March 7, 1924 – April 22, 2005), was a Scottish sculptor and artist. Paolozzi was born in Leith in north Edinburgh, the eldest son of Italian immigrants. He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art in 1943, briefly at the St Martin’s School of Art in 1944, and then at the Slade School of Art in London from 1944 to 1947, after which he worked in Paris, France.
Largely a surrealist, Paolozzi came to public attention in the 1960s by producing a range of striking screenprints. Paolozzi was a founder of the Independent Group, which is seen as a precursor to the ’60s British pop art movement. His 1947 collage I was a rich man’s plaything [1], is sometimes labelled the first true instance of Pop Art, although he always described his work as surrealist. Latterly he became better known as a sculptor. Paolozzi is known for producing largely lifelike statuary works, but with rectilinear (often cubic) elements added or removed, or the human form deconstructed in a cubist manner. His works include The mosaic patterned walls of the Tottenham Court Road tube station
He taught sculpture and ceramics at a number of institutions, including University of California, Berkeley (in 196 
and at the Royal College of Art. Paolozzi has a long association with Germany, having worked in Berlin from 1974 as part of the Artists Exchange Scheme. He was a professor at the Fachhochschule in Cologne from 1977 to 1981, and later taught sculpture at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich.
Paolozzi was awarded the CBE in 1968 and in 1979 he was elected to the Royal Academy. He became the Her Majesty’s Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland in 1986, holding the office until his death. He became Sir Eduardo upon his knighthood in 1989.
In 1994 Paolozzi gave the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art a large body of his works, and much of the content of his artist’s studio. In 1999 the National Galleries of Scotland opened the Dean Gallery to display this collection, and the gallery displays a recreation of Paolozzi’s studio, with its contents evoking the original London and Munich locations.
In 2001 Paolozzi suffered a near-fatal stroke (causing an incorrect magazine report that he had died).
However illness confined him to a wheelchair, and he died in hospital in London in April 2005.
Eduardo Paolozzi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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IMGP4604, originally uploaded by dullhunk.
Bob Dylan, George Best & ? Mosaic Portraits
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Morrissey, Bez, ? Mosaic Portraits
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Afflecks is a revitalised city centre building with five storeys of around 50 stalls and market-type shops, which provides shoppers with a novel buying experience. Very like an Aladdin’s Cave, Afflecks has become a platform for fledgling designers, punk, retro style and experimental fashion - a magnet to young shoppers, particularly on Saturdays.
Affleck’s Palace was opened in 1982, the brainchild of James Walsh, a Manchester-born hairdresser with a keen interest in the fashion industry. Based on the street fashion of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s he planned to provide affordable retail outlets for emerging designers to sell their wares directly to the public.
Prices are generally much lower than you’d expect to pay in more upmarket stores, but with little by way of fancy decor or expensive overheads, these predominantly young entrepreneurs usually offer great value for money.
Of themselves, they say: “The objective is now and always has been to encourage an exciting interesting place, which in our modest way would be something more than just a shopping centre based entirely on commercial interests”.
Shop at Afflecks for : second-hand clothes and “laid back” gear, denims, rare and old records, anything to do with the occult, books, magazines, tattooing, hairstyling, jewellery, ceramics - a shopping experience unique to Manchester.
Mark Kennedy, a 38 year old Ardwick-born artist has produced some of Manchester’s most iconic works of art, displayed throughout the city - from the exterior of the infamous Afflecks Palace to the Selfridges Exchange Square Hubub restaurant. He has also lived in Madrid, Morocco and spent two years in a Tibetan centre as a monk.
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