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Gina - mosaic portrait wip - Ullybby
Gina - mosaic portrait - Ullybby
Ulirike Martinez - Le mosaic - ullybby
Mosaic Artist - Ulrike Martinez - Palm Springs, California
“From an early age, I have loved art and anything that has to do with creating art. My drawings and art projects were always displayed in school. I designed my own clothes and dabbled in interior design. I graduated from Dental School in Germany with a Bachelor’s Degree in science. In 1990, I started painting murals, and in 2006 I discovered mosaic, a medium I was familiar with but had never tried.
Mosaic, this ancient art of putting together hand cut tesserae through meticulous precision, is a gratifying way to express my relentless desire to create beauty and for my visions of the world around me. After I finished my first piece, I could not let go. I had found what I was looking for all my life in creating beauty and the relentless pursuit of perfection.
It is an eloquent testimony of my dedication to carry on this form of one of the oldest art and decorating style. Once I have started on a piece, I cannot let go until it is finished. I design and draw all my pieces from scratch and with the greatest of care. I use only the finest materials available from around the world.”
woman waiting mosaic WIP - Ullybby
woman waiting mosaic WIP - Ullybby
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Woman Waiting WIP mosaic - Ullybby
Woman Waiting mosaic - Ullybby
bedroom mosaic WIP - Ullybby
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Mosaic Art Video - Mosaic Portraits - Mosaic Artist - Ivan Ulmann - Algarve, Portugal
I was born 1976 in Switzerland, where I lived until finishing The Art School in St. Gallen (CH) 1995. From 1996-98 I accomplished many works in stone, marble and granite for both public and private park projects in the Algarve / Portugal. Inspired by the works of Antonio Gaudi and Andi Warhol, I changed at the beginning of 1999 to the broken tiles and discovered a new world of art.
Since 2000 my sculptures and portraits of famous people have led to many accomplished art exhibitions throughout Portugal. Ivan Ulmann Mosaic Art Website
Mosaic Art Techniques: Mosaic Portrait
“How to make a Mosaic Portrait”
Special Mosaic Workshop - 4 sessions per year.
Portrait can be either an antique portrait - we provide a pattern or an elaboration of a modern face - photo brought by the students themselves.
Intensive workshops with Luciana Notturni in Ravenna, Italy. Mosaic theory, lime method, execution of mosaic reproduction or modern mosaic. Guided tour of mosaics in Ravenna.
Mosaic Art Techniques: Coccio Pesto
This video shows how to make coccio pesto - typically used for setting an antique mosaic reproductions into a frame.
Mosaic definition:
Coccio pesto - Mixture of lime, sand and crushed brick or pottery.
Tags: mosaic, art, portrait, class, course, workshop, school, ravenna, italy, luciana, notturni, lime, tour
more about “And then Peggy arrived“, posted with vodpod
Peggy Guggenheim Immortalized in Orsoni Mosaic to Commemorate 60th Anniversary of the Collection
Joining the ranks of the most prominent artists of the 20th Century, the Angelo Orsoni mosaic atelier has commemorated Peggy Guggenheim in a portrait created in the glass enamels and 24 k gold tesserae, hand crafted at the 19th century Venetian furnace.
Antonella Gallenda, Orsoni maestra, at work on Guggenheim mosaic portrait - mosaicartsource
The mosaic, by Orsoni maestra Antonella Gallenda, will be presented to the museum on August 26 at the Danilo Rea/Umbria jazz concert, performed in celebration of Guggenheim’s birthday. The concert is part of a series of events commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Inspired by a photograph of Guggenheim wearing her signature Surrealist sunglasses made for her by Edward Melcarth, the portrait is done in the genre of “Modernism.”
Antonella working with Orsoni smalti & gold tesserae - Guggenheim mosaic - mosaicartsource
Lucio Orsoni, the world-renowned mosaic artist and great grandson of Orsoni founder Angelo Orsoni, originated this technique specifically to interpret mid-century monochrome photography into mosaic portraiture. By placing the tesserae vertically, the artist intensifies the essential flatness and limited color palette of the image.
Peggy Guggenheim Mosaic Portrait close-up - mosaicartsource
Speaking from personal memory, Orsoni reflects, “I had the chance to meet Peggy Guggenheim when I was 16.
Peggy Guggenheim along the canal with her dogs
I still remember when she passed on the canals on board a gondola with her beloved dogs. It’s now with great pleasure that we present her portrait to the Guggenheim Collection, realized in the atelier founded by my great grandfather.”
Peggy Guggenheim Portrait Mosaic exhibit in Orsoni garden - mosaicartsource
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
Mosaic Art Source mosaic definition:
gold leaf tesserae (mosaic gold)
gold leaf tesserae (mosaic gold) - 24k gold-leaf tesserae are made up of a glass support layer (usually transparent, at times opaque red or coloured) less than one centimetre thick. The 24k gold metal leaf is then sandwiched between the support and a thin protective glass layer (the cartellina). In tesserae the colour shade is determined by the purity of the metal, the thickness of the leaf, the colour, if any, of the cartellina and of the support. m.a.s. mosaic glossary
Mosaic Art Source mosaic definition:
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
Sergei Parajanov
Who was Sergei Parajanov?
One of the 20th century’s greatest masters of cinema Sergei Parajanov was born in Georgia to Armenian parents and it was always unlikely that his work would conform to the strict socialist realism that Soviet authorities preferred. After studying film and music, Parajanov became an assistant director at the Dovzhenko studios in Kiev, making his directorial debut in 1954, following that with numerous shorts and features, all of which he subsequently dismissed as “garbage”. However, in 1964 he was able to make Tini zabutykh predkiv (1964), a rhapsodic celebration of Ukrainian folk culture, and the world discovered a startling and idiosyncratic new talent.
He followed this up with the even more innovative Sayat Nova (1968) (which explored the art and poetry of his native Armenia in a series of stunningly beautiful tableaux), but by this stage the authorities had had enough, and Paradjanov spent most of the 1970s in prison on almost certainly rigged charges of “homosexuality and illegal trafficking in religious icons”. However, with the coming of perestroika, he was able to make two further films before succumbing to cancer in 1990. Sergei Parajanov - Biography
Parajanov: The Last Spring
In December of 1973, the Soviet government arrested Parajanov and sentenced him to five years in hard labor camps. A large group of world-famous artists, filmmakers and activists protested and Parajanov was released, but only after having served four horrific years in the Soviet penal system. Poet Louis Aragon’s petition to the Soviet government was instrumental in securing Parajanov’s release. Parajanov returned to Tbilisi, but the regime continued to keep him away from cinema.
Parajanov: Collage Art
During and after prison Paradjanov created extraordinary collages, drawings and numerous other art works, now frequently exhibited worldwide. Sergei Parajanov - Biography
Mosaic Art by Sergei Paradjanov on Flickr - nersess
Madonna Mosaic Sergio Parajanov Տիրամայր on Flickr - nersess
Mona Lisa Collage by Paradjanov on Flickr - nersess
About the Paradjanow museum: www.parajanov.com
The 12th century Khor Virap monastery in the shadow of Mount Ararat, upon which Noah’s Ark had supposedly once come to rest.
Where is Armenia?
Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստան Hayastan), officially in English the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked mountainous country in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Southern Caucasus. It borders Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan to the south. A transcontinental country at the juncture of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, Armenia has had and continues to have extensive sociopolitical and cultural connections with Europe.[2] Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tags: mosaic, art, mosaic art, artist, film director, sergio parajanov, sergei paradjanov, armenia, yerevan, soviet, prison art, collage
Mosaic Artist Jo Braun mosaic detail
The Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA) Mosaic Arts International 2007, the organization’s annual juried mosaic exhibition, opened at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Center and will continue through April 29th. The mosaic exhibit features 62 pieces selected from 397 entries by mosaic artists from six countries.
Mosaic Art Source - Mosaic Exhibit - MAI 2007 mosaic art exhibit photos
Mosaic Art Source - Mosaic Art Focus April Newsletter
Please Note: These Mosaic Images may not be reproduced in any form without the legal authorization of the artists. Please be aware that Mosaic Artists worldwide have united to form an International Mosaic Art Watch Group that will support the prosecution of anyone who does so.
Lilian Broca - Queen Esther’s Banquet Mosaic by candlelight
Has anyone ever asked you why mosaic artists bother to work with thousands of tiny pieces of glass when paint is so much cheaper and faster? or what is the difference between painted art and mosaic art? My favorite quote from Dr. Campbell’s essay sums it up beautifully “the painter tries to imitate light with pigments, the mosaicist’s chief medium is light as it is caught in and reflected by the material used”.
Mosaic Art Source Article - The Art of Mosaic
Mosaic Art Source - Mosaic Art Focus February Newsletter
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”.
Mosaic St Peregrine’s Got an Owie on Flickr - by Scott McG
A mosaic at The Grotto in Portland, Oregon, depicting St. Peregrine
grotto smalti mosaic portland on Flickr - by dougclark
smalti mosaic grotto detail on Flickr - by thespeak
mosaic smalti detail on Flickr - by jasmine008
mosaic smalti portland grotto - by anadune
Louisa Lawson Reserve mosaic, originally uploaded by Meredith Jones.
pink mosaic detail on Flickr - by Meredith Jones
By Women mosaic on Flickr - by Meredith Jones
Mosaic Journal for the Household on Flickr - by Meredith Jones
star mosaic detail on Flickr - by Meredith Jones
mosaic plaque at Louisa Lawson Reserve on Flickr - by Meredith Jones
Mosaic created by Cynthia Turner at tiny park in Harnett St, Marrickville, Australia
Who was Louisa Lawson?
Louisa Lawson (February 17, 1848 - August 12, 1920) was an Australian writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist. Louisa Lawson was born and grew up in Mudgee, New South Wales. Her family was poor and as the eldest daughter of nine, she was forced to leave school at the age of thirteen. In 1866 Louisa married Niels Larsen (Peter Lawson); her husband was often absent leaving Louisa to raise four children on her own. In 1882 she took her children and moved to Sydney. She managed boarding houses and saved money that she used to buy a share in the radical pro-federation newspaper The Republican in 1887. With her earnings and experience from working on The Republican she was able in May 1888, to edit and publish The Dawn.
The Dawn was Australia’s first journal produced solely by women; it was published monthly and distributed throughout Australia and overseas. The Dawn had a strong feminist perspective, and discussed issues such as the women’s right to vote and assume public office, women’s education, women’s economic and legal rights, domestic violence, and temperance. The Dawn was published monthly for seventeen years (1888 - 1905) and at its height employed 10 female staff. Her son Henry Lawson also wrote poems and stories for the paper. The Dawn press printed Henry’s first book Short Stories in Prose and Verse in 1894.
Louisa Lawson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dumbarton Oaks Manor House on Flickr - john w
Dumbarton Oaks is a 19th century Federal-style mansion in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It currently houses the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, a center for scholarship in Byzantine studies, Pre-Columbian studies and the history of landscape architecture. Dumbarton Oaks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dumberton Pool on Flickr - by elvisthefish
mosaic of the great horned god overlooks the pool - by Karon
poolhouse mosaics on Flickr - by Karon
Poolhouse mosaic deetail on Flickr - by van swearingen
Poolhouse mosaic. detail on Flickr - by van swearingen
Poolhouse mosaic at Dumbarton Oaks on Flickr - by van swearingen
Bathhouse Mosaic smalti & marble detail on Flickr - by elvisthefish
Bathhouse mosaic macro smalti detail on Flickr - elvisthefish
Basílica de Carranque 2, originally uploaded by stavlokratz.
Where is Carranque?
Carranque is a town in the Toledo province, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is located in the Alta Sagra area of the province bordering the province of Madrid.
Carranque contains a Roman site protected as an archeological park by the Castile-La Mancha government. It is located by river Guadarrama, near a Roman road. It seems to be near the lost city of Titultiam. There are three main buildings, the ruins of a Roman mill and a modern interpretation building. The buildings date from the late 4th century and are thought to be related to the Hispania-born emperor Theodosius I.
carranque mosaico on Flickr - by themy2004
In 1983 a local peasant, Samuel López Iglesias, found a series of mosaics while plowing in the fields known as las Suertes de Abajo. These mosaics belong to the so-named Villa of Maternus. The interpretation facility exhibits objects found during the excavations. Carranque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Océano on Flickr - by stavlokratz
In the Dining Hall a tilted floor formed a semicircular fountain with a mosaic of the god Oceanus, featuring crab antennas, claws and a wavy beard.
In the Greek and Roman world-view, Oceanus (Greek Ὠκεανός, Okeanos), was the world-ocean, which they believed to be an enormous river encircling the world. Strictly speaking, Okeanos was the ocean-stream at the Equator in which floated the habitable hemisphere (oikoumene).[1] In Greek mythology, this world-ocean was personified as a Titan, a son of Uranus and Gaia. In Hellenistic and Roman mosaics, this Titan was often depicted as having the upper body of a muscular man with a long beard and horns, and the lower torso of a serpent (cf. Typhon). On a fragmentary archaic vessel (British Museum 1971.11-1.1) of ca 580 BCE, among the gods arriving at the wedding of Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis, is a fish-tailed Oceanus, with a fish in one hand and a serpent in the other, gifts of bounty and prophecy. In Roman mosaics he might carry a steering-oar and cradle a ship. Oceanus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Briseis and Achilles mosaic- Wikipedia
The Ulysses giving Briseis back to Achilles mosaic above was also found in the dining room & depicts the return of the slave Briseis to Achilles as narrated in the Iliad.
What Iliad?
The Iliad (Ancient Greek Ἰλιάς, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language (though some believe that the works of the poet Hesiod were composed earlier, a belief that was also held by some classical Greeks).
Aquiles from Ulysses giving Briseis back to Achilles on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
The first word of the Iliad is μῆνιν (mēnin), “rage” or “wrath”. This word announces the major theme of the Iliad: the wrath of Achilles.
Briseida from Ulysses giving Briseis back to Achilles on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
When Agamemnon, the commander of the Greek forces at Troy, dishonors Achilles by taking Briseis, a slave woman given to Achilles as a prize of war, Achilles becomes enraged, and withdraws from the fighting. Without Achilles’ prowess in battle, the Greeks are nearly defeated by the Trojans. Achilles re-enters the fighting when his dearest friend Patroclus is killed by the Trojan prince Hector. Achilles slaughters many Trojans, and kills Hector. In his rage he then refuses to return Hector’s body and instead defiles it. Priam, the father of Hector, ransoms his son’s body, and the Iliad ends with the funeral of Hector.
Of the many themes in the Iliad, perhaps the most important is the idea of moral choice. Achilles believes he has two options: he can either live a long, unremarkable life at home or else he can die young and gloriously as a mercenary warrior. Military adventuring (that is, pillage and plunder) was a way of life in pre-Homeric times, and the many ruins of thick-walled cities and fortresses in the region give silent testimony to the fear that must have characterized life in the ancient world.
For some men, military adventuring is a more attractive choice than staying home on the farm. Death in battle leads to honor and glory—timae and kleos—which were important values of the day — more important than even right and wrong. One of the remarkable things about the Iliad is the way that Achilles, especially in Book 9, both embraces concepts of honor and glory and also rejects them. It should be noted that, despite the fact that he is the antagonist in the story, Hector probably best displays the qualities of an ancient Mediterranean hero. Many Greek myths exist in multiple versions, so Homer had some freedom to choose among them to suit his story. Iliad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Glimpse of Petra Treasury on Flickr - by charlietyack
Where is Petra?
Petra is a spectacular ancient Nabataean city in western Jordan. With massive façades that have been carved entirely out of the existing red sandstone, Petra’s magnificent temples and tombs are like no other religious buildings in the world, and the surrounding rugged landscape dotted with historical sites are a hiker’s paradise.
Petra has been a city of great religious significance both in ancient times and today. First, it has a number of connections with the Old Testament: the nearby Ain Mousa (Spring of Moses) is believed to be where Moses struck a rock with his staff to extract water and Aaron is said to have died in the Petra area and been buried on what is today the sacred site atop Jabal Haroun (Mount Aaron). Later, the city built by the Nabataeans was packed with tombs, temples, sanctuaries and altars to their gods. And in its last years, Petra was the home of several Byzantine churches.
Petra, Jordan - Sacred Destinations Travel Guide
Petra church mosaic floor on Flickr - by fee6ee
Amidst Petra’s ancient temples is a Byzantine church dating from the 5th and 6th centuries. Still being excavated, Petra Church contains some extraordinary mosaics.
Detail of the Petra church mosaics on Flickr - by fee6ee
The Petra Church seems to have first been built over Nabataean and Roman remains around 450 AD. It may have been a major 5th- and 6th-century cathedral, which is intriguing given the other evidence of Petra’s decline after a 363 AD earthquake.
Petra church mosaic detail on Flickr - by anilegna
Petra church mosaic detail on Flickr - by anilegna
mosaic floor detail on Flickr - by anilegna
How old are the mosaics of Petra?
When first constructed around 450, the church had only one apse and an entrance porch. The Mosaic of the Seasons in the southern aisle is from this period. In 500-50 AD, the church was remodeled. Two side apses were installed and the two-story atrium built. The nave was paved and the chancel screens, a pulpit, and wall mosaics were installed, as were the mosaics of the northern aisle and the eastern end of the southern aisle.
petra_church_deer_mosaic on Flickr - by taijibasset
Each of the side aisles of Petra Church is paved with 70 square meters of remarkably preserved mosaics, depicting native as well as exotic or mythological animals, as well as personifications of the Seasons, Ocean, Earth and Wisdom. Also surviving are significant remains of the nave’s paving in marble and stone in geometric designs.
Mosaic Interpretation on Flickr - Photo Sharing!, by www.h4ppy.com.
Zoe’nin mozaik, Ayasofya, İstanbul, originally uploaded by El senyor dels Bertins.
Hagia Sophia’s south gallery. The first mosaic portrays Christ enthroned, between the Empress Zoe (1028-1050) and her third husband Constantine IX Monomachus (1042-1055). Constantine offers Christ an apokombion (purse estimated to contain gold coins weighing about 3 kgs. ) . Zoe presents Christ with a scroll inscribed with a list of her donations to the church. In accordance with older practices, the principal figure of the composition-in this instance that of Christ-is depicted on a larger scale, which is also meant to stress the difference between divine and human nature.
Mosaic on Flickr by Mistress B
mosaic of jesus on Flickr - by kristinemarie223
Mosaic detail on Flickr by Mistress B
Mosaic detail on Flickr by Mistress B
Hagia Sophia - Empress Zoe mosaic - detail, originally uploaded by birdfarm.
Hagia Sofia mosaic on Flickr - by jason_bennett
Hagia Sophia’s South Gallery — Mosaic of the Emperor John II Comnenus (1118-1143) and his consort Irene presenting a bag of gold coins and a scroll inscribed with a list of donations to the