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Dame Edna Everage Mosaic, Melbourne on Flickr - by JonathanDevlin
Dame Edna Everage AD is a character played by Australian comedian Barry Humphries. As Dame Edna, Humphries has written several books and hosted various television shows (on which Humphries has also appeared as himself). In 1979, Dame Edna was the subject of a BBC Arena mockumentary: “La Dame aux Gladiolas”.
Dame Edna is known for her lilac-coloured hair (which she claims is natural) and over-the-top eyeglasses.
While Humphries freely states that Dame Edna is a character he plays, Dame Edna consistently denies being a fictional character or drag performer, and refers to Humphries as her “entrepreneur” or manager. Indeed, Dame Edna has frequently said that the thought of a man dressing up as a woman for entertainment purposes is repulsive.
Dame Edna’s Bio
According to Dame Edna’s autobiography, and to statements she has made, she was born Edna May Beazley in the (then) small rural town of Wagga Wagga, and started her stage career on December 19, 1955 as Mrs Norm Everage, an “average Australian housewife” from Moonee Ponds, a Melbourne suburb. When her husband, Norman Stoddard Everage, died of prostate cancer, Dame Edna became the founder and governor of a charity called Friends of the Prostate, and the creator of The World Prostate Olympics.
She spends her time visiting world leaders and jet-setting between her homes in Los Angeles, London, Sydney, Switzerland and Martha’s Vineyard. She is a friend and confidante of the Queen.
Dame Edna has three adult children: a daughter named Valmai (currently in a rehabilitation programme for shoplifters) and two sons, Bruce and Kenneth, whom she describes in a caricature of gay men, though she shows no awareness of their homosexuality. Dame Edna’s mother is incarcerated in a “maximum-security twilight home”.
Dame Edna is revered for her insights into her homeland. When asked why Australians are so good at sport she commented “Good food and diet; open air life; juicy steaks; sunshine - and the total absence of any kind of intellectual distraction.”
Dame Edna Everage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kylie & Russel Crowe Mosaic , Melbourne on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Smalti mosaic portraits depicting “100 Great Australian Entertainers of the Past Century”.
Israel, Tel Aviv, View from Yafo on Flickr - by Anthony International
Tel Aviv-Yafo (Hebrew: תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ; Arabic: تَلْ أَبِيبْ يَافَا) is the second largest city in Israel and is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It is also the main part of the largest and most populous metropolitan area in Israel, Gush Dan.
Tel Aviv - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Israel, Tel Aviv, The famous Guttman mosaics on Flickr - by Anthony International
Mosaic Fountain - ‘4000 Years of History’ - Bialik Square
The Twelve Mosaics are situated around the fountain in front of the Old City Hall, Bialik Street 27. The mosaics tell us the history of Tel Aviv-Jaffa throughout the ages. They are the work of Nahum Gutman Holiday in Israel
Nahum Gutman mosaic history of Tel Aviv (on Bialik Street) on Flickr - by לורנס לויתן
Who was Nahum Gutman?
Nahum Gutman (1898–1980) was an Israeli painter, sculptor and author born in what is now Teleneşti, Moldova, then part of the Russian Empire. In 1903, he and his parents moved to Odessa; in 1905, they emigrated to Israel.
Gutman helped pioneer a distinctively Israeli style, different from the European models of his teachers. He was quite eclectic as an artist, working in oils, watercolours, gouache, sculpture, mosaics, and engravings. His work varied between literal and abstract, and he also wrote and illustrated a number of highly successful children’s books and short stories.
Nahum Gutman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nahum Gutman’s mosaic history of Tel Aviv (on Bialik Street) on Flickr - by לורנס לויתן
This depicts Jonah being cast into the sea off the coast of the ancient port of Jaffa
Nahum Gutman’s mosaic history of Tel Aviv (on Bialik Street) on Flickr - by לורנס לויתן
This depicts the early settlement days (turn of the 20th Century).
Nahum Gutman’s mosaic history of Tel Aviv (on Bialik Street) on Flickr - by לורנס לויתן
This depicts the ancient port of Jaffa, where the cedars of Lebanon were sent on their way to be used in Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem.
Nahum Gutman’s mosaic history of Tel Aviv (on Bialik Street) on Flickr - by לורנס לויתן
This depicts modern Tel Aviv.
Nahum Gutman - Mosaic Bio
1961 Executed a mosaic wall in the Chief Rabbinate Building, Tel Aviv
1965 During the 1960s Gutman went to Italy where he specialized in mosaic
1966 Executed a mosaic wall at the Shalom Tower, Tel Aviv
1967 Executed a mosaic wall at the Gymnasia Herzeliya Building, Tel Aviv
In the late 1960s and during the 1970s Gutman sculpted ceramic statuettes
1976 Executed a mosaic at the Bialik Plaza depicting the history of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
1980 Passed away in Tel Aviv
There’s a moon over Herzl street, tonight. on Flickr - by yoel herzberg
Shalom Tower ( Migdal Shaalom) on Herzl street, Tel Aviv.
Shalom Meir Tower (Hebrew: מגדל שלום מאיר, Migdal Shalom Meir; commonly shortened to מגדל שלום, Migdal Shalom) is an office tower in Tel-Aviv which contains a small commercial center. Shalom Meir tower was the first magnificent and tall tower to be built in Israel and when its construction was completed, it rivaled the tallest buildings in Europe in height, and was the tallest in the Middle East. It has 34 floors and stands at a height of 142 m (466 ft), it was completed in 1965.
Shalom Meir tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Israel May 1995 - Tel Aviv - Mosaic mural, originally uploaded by πρώρα (Prora).
Nahum Gutman (1898-197 
was born in Romania and immigrated to Israel in 1905. He grew up in Jaffa, opposite the sand dunes (later to become Tel Aviv), and these locations dominate his landscapes. He was one of the first children to live in the new city of Tel Aviv, and this influential childhood experience is reflected in his books A Small City with Few People and Between Sands and Blue Skies. He became known as prolific children’s book author, and illustrator. His works earned him the title “the artist of early Tel Aviv” seeing as he had a knack for portraying the bohemian and realistic vision of the city and its people. Gutman is also famous for his illustration of Bialik poems and for mosaics he designed in Tel Aviv: in the Shalom Tower, the Chief Rabbinate Building, and the old City Plaza, Bialik Square. They were created in 1970 and they tell the story of the daily life in Tel Aviv and Jaffa. After his death the Nahum Gutman Museum was founded. It is located in what is considered Tel Aviv’s first Jewish neighborhood, Neve Tzedek. The Mosaic in the western wing of the Shalom Tower tells us of the beginning of the city. The mosaic is divided in four different colors each representing a period in the life of the city. Holiday in Israel
IMG_0964, originally uploaded by abigailk.
Part of a large mosaic mural in the Sholom Tower that depicts the building of Tel Aviv.
IMG_0965, originally uploaded by abigailk.
This portion depicts an old-style Israeli farmer, a new Russian immigrant, and the overlap of the two.
IMG_0966, originally uploaded by abigailk.
Part of a mosaic mural in the Shalom Tower depicting the building of Tel Aviv.
Mosaic Hippie Shop Israel, originally uploaded by lauraelena.
Neve Tzedek Mosaic, originally uploaded by mephistofales.
Neve Tzedek (Hebrew: נווה צדק) is a neighborhood in the City of Tel Aviv, Israel. It was the first Jewish neighborhood to be built outside the walls of the ancient port of Yafo. For years, the neighborhood prospered as Tel Aviv, the first modern Hebrew city, grew up around it. Years of neglect and disrepair followed, but today Neve Tzedek has become one of Tel Aviv’s latest fashionable districts.
At the beginning of the 1900s, many artists and writers made Neve Tzedek their residence. Most notably, Nobel prize laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon, as well as Hebrew artist Nahum Gutman, used Neve Tzedek as both a home and a sanctuary for art.
Neve Tzedek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chelouche thirty, originally uploaded by ido1.
No. 30, Chelouche st. Nice verbal play. A place of art - a gallery of 12 or so ceramic artists.
Mosaic wall neve tzedek tel aviv israel on Flickr - by ellla
Wall of Ceramic Fragments on Flickr - by ellla
Mosaic Tesserae & Texture Ceramic Pottery on Flickr - by luoziwei
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