tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59878165400879623632024-03-14T05:42:21.690-07:00MosaicBluesThe Mosaics of Frederic Lecut. Technical, Artistic and Historical facts, lies and stories about past and present day mosaics.Frederic Lecuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16799014615525195086noreply@blogger.comBlogger251125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5987816540087962363.post-33822280030278417512017-11-13T21:49:00.001-08:002017-11-13T21:49:09.897-08:00Changing platform<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Frederic Lecuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16799014615525195086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5987816540087962363.post-16400165259395740372017-11-13T15:00:00.000-08:002017-11-13T15:00:06.650-08:00ISIS tried to sell me a Mosaic looted from a Syrian Museum.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In January 2016 I received through Facebook Messenger a message from Turkey. The author was offering to sell me a mosaic - supposedly excavated from the area of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antakya" target="_blank">Hatay Antakya</a> (Ancient Antioch) - which had been discarded by the archaeologists. The offer came with pictures. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I saw how beautiful the mosaic was I could not believe anybody with common sense could have discarded it ! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I quickly suspected this piece had been stolen. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I tried to engage the man trying to sell this piece. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /><br />In the meantime a search for "Roman Mosaic of Syria" brought up the description of the actual mosaic in the book<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521002303/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_8?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER" target="_blank"> "Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World"</a> by Katherine M.D.Dunbabin.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>To Balty’s later group (of mosaics) from Shahba belongs an astonishing bust of the Sea-Goddess Tethys... Fish entangled in her hair, a sea dragon coiled around her neck, and she holds a steering oar. The figure of the Sea Goddess occurs frequently on mosaics of the region of Antioch, but never with the power shown here: almost to large for the frame, the figure dominates the small room where it is set. The characteristics of the «Constantinian renascence» are apparent in the broad smooth surfaces and the careful delineation, for instance of the wide opened eyes; but the combination of the massive force of the face and the restlessness of the dark hair makes this work of exceptional quality. Around it, a wide border shows Erotes in boats and fishing, on a sea marked by broad bands of colour.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">CBS News' article <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-looted-syrian-ancient-artifacts-black-market-us-and-europe/" target="_blank">Following the trail of Syria's looted history</a> describes how artifacts looted by ISIS or under the authority of ISIS regularly end up on the antiquities markets in London, Paris or even New York.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I went to the FBI website to report this matter and have not heard anything about it.</span><br />
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Frederic Lecuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16799014615525195086noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5987816540087962363.post-45839673684378386122017-11-04T09:47:00.000-07:002017-11-05T08:38:43.632-08:00How to build a cement board platform to mount your mosaics.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many mosaics are mounted on plywood, a material easily cut and shaped. However wood can warp and deteriorate with humidity; which is why I mount most of pieces on cement backing boards reinforced by a wooden frame in the manner of the framed canvas used by painters. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last week I wrote about the portrait of Lane and Ella. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today, I would like you to meet their parents Natalie and Aaron. Natalie commissioned this portrait in 2016 for their 10th anniversary ! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have known Natalie and Aaron for close to 20 years when the 3 of us where practicing Karate. Being myself in Auburn to judge a testing last week end they invited me to share their meal (Great cooking, they raise their own chickens and grow vegetables in their yard, just like I do in Headland !) and our friend Julie (the Deer Hunter) took this great picture of the three of us under the mosaic ! </span></span></div>
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<br />Frederic Lecuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16799014615525195086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5987816540087962363.post-53955661817687008032017-10-27T10:00:00.000-07:002017-10-27T10:00:01.408-07:00Long-lost Roman Mosaic built for Caligula and smuggled to the US finally returns to Italy.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">In the 2015 movie Woman in Gold an elderly Jewish refugeefights the Austrian Government to reclaim a portrait by Gustav Klimt of her aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer, portrait which had been stolen by the Nazis prior to World War II.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In a next post I’ll tell you about a Roman mosaic looted from a Syrian museum by ISIS, which a Turkish smuggler proposed to sell me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In May 2013, I created a mosaic portrait of Ella and Lane, the children of my good friends Natalie and Aaron from Auburn, Alabama.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">in 2014, Natalie sent me a picture of the kids under their portrait ! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The first thing you see when you come into the house is the gorgeous smile of the kids on the mosaic on the wall facing the entrance door ! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last week end, as I was bringing them a small mosaic derived from my <a href="https://mosaicblues.blogspot.com/2015/12/delivery.html" target="_blank">Miura Project</a>, Aaron invited me to share their meal (Great Hamburgers and grilled chicken) and he took this picture of the kids and me under the mosaic ! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">L'etude des m</span>osaiques romaines revele enormement de choses sur la vie quotidienne des nos ancetres, et egalement sur la maniere dont travaillaient les mosaicistes antiques.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Je suis persuade que nos ancetres utilisaient des livres - catalogues de dessins pour montrer a </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">leur clients ce qu'ils pourraient executer pour eux. </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sur ce sujet, j'ai ecrit il y a quelques temps un article sur la <a href="https://mosaicblues.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-mona-lisa-of-gallilee-case-of.html" target="_blank">Mona Lisa de Galilee</a> et sa copie. </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Emblème d'une mosaïque de sol représentant un chat et deux canards. Opus vermiculatum, œuvre romaine de la fin de l'époque républicaine, premier quart du Ier siècle av. J.-C. Visible au Musee national de Rome - </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pallazo Massimo alle Terme </span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ces trois pieces sont clairement apparentees. Leur architecture est similaire. Elles sont composees de deux tableaux superposes. Dans le tableau superieur, un chat attaque un oiseau, dans le tableau inferieur, deux canards vivants sont en accompagnes de divers mets - fruits, fleurs, fruits de mer et/ou petits oiseaux.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ce type de mosaique "Emblema" etaient produits par des maitres artisans employes dans des ateliers tres specialises. Une fois terminees, elles etaient expediees pour etre inserees in situ au sein d'autres mosaiques de facture moins complexe. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Je pense que les deux pieces de Pompeii et Ceccigniola furent executees dans le meme atelier, peut etre par le meme artiste, et que la piece du Musee du Vatican fut realisee plus tardivement par un artiste de moindre abilete. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Opus Pixellatum allows for an amazing range of variations and improvisations.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Other modes of variations can use 2 different scales. In this combination of a Blue and an Orange Scale, the respective darknesses of colors has been respected.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In this one, however, the progression in darkness is different for the colored scale than it is for the gray scale. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are many more possibilities as illustrated below. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the piece below, only every other tesserae are laid in accordance to the grayscale of the original model. then, the other tesserae are laid, the colors progress from Red on the Left to Blue on the Right. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The progression of colors in Variation #3 is similar to the Variation #1, with warmer tones. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">#4 has brighter colors.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On #5 based on #3, every other tile is filled with a gray color.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iwcC84hymCQ/WdmkC8Doj7I/AAAAAAAAVwc/ZRsEtdeUmTk2R774dpv_FptVZPS3snIlACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Green_eyes_mosaic_portrait_Opus_pixellatum_Variation_05_800px.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Pop Art Greeneyes mosaic portrait simulation - half the tiles erased and filled with light gray color." border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iwcC84hymCQ/WdmkC8Doj7I/AAAAAAAAVwc/ZRsEtdeUmTk2R774dpv_FptVZPS3snIlACK4BGAYYCw/s400/Green_eyes_mosaic_portrait_Opus_pixellatum_Variation_05_800px.jpg" title="Pop Art Greeneyes mosaic portrait variation #5" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">#6 is a different repartition of brighter colors, still Blues, Yellows and Reds</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In #7 based on #5, a gradient of colors has filled up every other tile. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E0yuPHtPMzA/WdmkmGuWJpI/AAAAAAAAVws/7OTdPlcgvkEniQux-KwWnrRDWP3nb8pFgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Green_eyes_mosaic_portrait_Opus_pixellatum_Variation_07_800px.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="half the tiles original colors erased and replaced by a color gradient" border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E0yuPHtPMzA/WdmkmGuWJpI/AAAAAAAAVws/7OTdPlcgvkEniQux-KwWnrRDWP3nb8pFgCK4BGAYYCw/s400/Green_eyes_mosaic_portrait_Opus_pixellatum_Variation_07_800px.jpg" title="Pop Art Greeneyes mosaic portrait variation #7" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">#8 is a brighter, more contrasted version of #7</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The filling gradient of #9 is darker than the one of #8</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"># 10 uses Green tones instead of the previous Blues used in #2 to #9</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In #11 the lower veils is using reds where as the top of the image is similar to the top of #10</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A totally different type of variation consists in the superposition of two layers of different images. In the 3 following examples, I have used an opus tessellatum image on top of the Opus Pixellatum. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Practically, this is done by first building the opus tesselatum piece by gluing the tesserae on top of a vinyl sheet that covers the tesselatum model, once this done, the mosaicists removes the Tesselatum model and inserts the Pixellatum model under the vinyl, and resume the execution of the mosaic, following the design of the Pixellatum model. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This may sound a little complicated, it is not really. I Plan to teach this technique during a seminar next spring. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Opus Pixellatum allows for a formidable array of variations. Only your imagination is the limit. Several of my students have experimented and obtained amazing results with this technique <a href="http://mosaicblues.blogspot.com/2017/08/meet-daniel-adams-outstanding-graphic.html" target="_blank">(Click here for my Post on Daniel Adams).</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I encourage you to give it a try. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>I will email you, for free, the Gray scale Model at the top of this article.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just contact me at <a href="mailto:frederic.lecut@mosaicblues.com">frederic.lecut@mosaicblues.com</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">You just have it printed and get to work ! </span></span></div>
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<br />Frederic Lecuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16799014615525195086noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5987816540087962363.post-91463574195077869362017-10-11T10:30:00.000-07:002017-10-11T10:30:04.811-07:00The Tour de France Mosaic - an hommage to the greatest bicycle race.<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I started last week a piece about the Tour de France.</span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even if you are not French or a bicycle aficionado, you probably have heard of the grueling bicycle race organized in France every summer. It has been going on almost non-stop for over a century.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My friend John Henderson, owner of the <a href="http://dothancycle.tripod.com/" target="_blank">Dothan Cycle and Fitness</a> store commissioned this piece based on a poster related to the 1913 Tour de France.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because of the Art Nouveau style, I decided to use glass for this piece. The Map and Letterings will be Opus Tessellatum, but I will use Opus Pixellatum to create a different background changed from plain Navy Blue to a gradient Dark Blue to Deep Purple. So I am using 2 models to build this mosaic. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because I am using the reverse method, the model on the right is a mirror image of the original poster.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I laid the first tiles on October 6 , 2017, beginning with contour of France in bright Yellow.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On October 8, I had progressed well on the Red Road (La Route du Tour !), and ran out of yellow tiles... </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For now, waiting for the tiles I ordered from Mosaic Art Supply, I will be working on the man and his bike.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stay tuned, I will keep you posted on my progress on this remarkable piece of bicycle Art ! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I believe our ancetors used some sort of catalogs of drawings to show their patrons (I do that !). It is likely some designs were simply copied, there were no copyrights in the Roman times... A few month ago I wrote about the <a href="http://mosaicblues.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-mona-lisa-of-gallilee-case-of.html" target="_blank">Mona Lisa of Palestine</a> and her copy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Did you know that the two words Mosaic and Music have a similar ancient Greek root "</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="_Tgc">μουσ</span>" (</span></span>mous) ?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Music" comes from the ancient Greek <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/music" target="_blank"><span class="_Tgc">“μουσικός” (Mousikos)</span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="_Tgc" style="font-size: large;">"Mosaic" was formed from the ancient Greek </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mosaic" target="_blank"><span class="_Tgc"><span class="st" data-hveid="107" data-ved="0ahUKEwjZrdLYi7fWAhVDQiYKHQ9lBzIQ4EUIazAN">"</span></span><span class="_Tgc"><span class="st" data-hveid="107" data-ved="0ahUKEwjZrdLYi7fWAhVDQiYKHQ9lBzIQ4EUIazAN"><span class="_Tgc">μ</span>ουσεῖον" (Mouseîon)</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since the beginning of humanity, artists have been borrowing from each other. In a previous post, I wrote about the amazing similarities between a 2nd century BC <a href="https://mosaicblues.blogspot.com/search?q=fresco" target="_blank">Pasiphae Mosaic in Zeugma</a> - Turkey and a 1st century AD fresco from the House of the Vettii in Pompeii, Italy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The stunning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepphoris#/media/File:Mona_Lisa_of_the_Galilee_large.jpg" target="_blank">Mona Lisa of Galilee</a> was unearthed from the ancient <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/jesus/sepphoris.html" target="_blank">city of Sepphoris</a>, an ancient town grown between the 1st cent. BC and the 7th century to become a thriving administrative, commercial and religious center with a diverse, multi-ethnic and multi-religious population of some 30,000
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her enigmatic smile can presently be admired in the antic town of Zippori on the Triclinium floor of the Roman Villa.</span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I stumbled on the "<a href="http://www.pba-auctions.com/html/fiche.jsp?id=2420268" target="_blank">Mosaique au buste feminin</a>" - Female Torso mosaic - browsing the Internet for Roman mosaic portraits, and she immediately reminded me of someone... </span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This gorgeous piece had been auctioned by a French Art Dealer for the modest price of 5,500.00 Euros.</span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Although obviously the two pieces are not of the same aesthetic quality, the resemblance is stunning. This beauty cannot possibly be a copy made from memory. Either she was laid from a drawing made after the first piece, or the drawing used to lay her was a copy of the drawing used to lay the first piece.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately, we do not know the provenance of this mosaic. My attempts at contacting the auctioneer were not successful. The catalog lists her as "ca 4th century AD", which would make both mosaics contemporary. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, why would a modern mosaic artist care for this kind of things ? Well, maybe for the same reasons why Renaissance masters cared for Roman Art... </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Myth of Andromeda and Perseus </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">has been the subject of numerous ancient and modern works of
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When her mother Queen Cassiopeia boasted that Andromeda was more beautiful than the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nereids" title="Nereids">Nereids</a>, Poseidon sent the sea monster <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetus_%28mythology%29" title="Cetus (mythology)">Cetus</a> to ravage the coast of Ethiopia. An Oracle
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus" title="Perseus">Perseus</a>, who was passing by on his way back from slaying <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa" title="Medusa">Medusa</a> came to rescue the Maiden. Sneaking upon Cetus under a cloak of invisibility, he killed him, set Andromeda free, and married her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On this 3rd century mosaic from Gaziantep, Turkey, Perseus is still holding the head of Medusa slained earlier in the story. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The names on the mosaics are written in Greek characters as People from that part of the empire were generally speaking Greek rather than latin. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mosaic borders were expertly used by Roman mosaicists to create the same effect wooden frames have on paintings. </span></span>The relatively simple design of this one contrasts with the intricacies of the mythological scene and pulls our eyes and attention toward the main scene. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am currently building a library of Roman Mosaic borders to be used in modern mosaics. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">La mosaïque aux Colombes fut découverte lors des fouilles de la villa d’Hadrien en 1737.</span><br />
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que certains experts pensent que cette beauté est en fait la célèbre
mosaïque des Colombes réalisée par le célèbre Sosus de Pergame
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pour
moi, la plus belle d'entre elles est l'<a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/emblema-art">emblema</a>
découverte
dans la villa d'Hadrien. Elle est composée
de milliers de très petites tesselles de 2 a 3 mm de cote, une technique nommée <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_vermiculatum" target="_blank">opus vermiculatum</a>,
la plus sophistiquée
de toutes les techniques d'assemblage de mosaïques.
Un
Fragment du cadre de cette mosaïque
est expose au <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_de_l%27Arles_et_de_la_Provence_antiques">Musee
d'Arles Antique</a> cet été. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Les
tesselles utilisées pour réaliser ce cadre mesurent au plus 3 mm de
cote. On réservait généralement ce type de tesselles pour les pièces
centrales - Emblema - et on utilisait des tesselles de tailles supérieures pour réaliser les bordures en <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_tesselatum" target="_blank">Opus Tessellatum.</a>
Hadrien était un protecteur des Arts. Ce type de chef d’œuvre
n’était produit que dans un petit nombre d'ateliers hautement
spécialises de l'Empire. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Toutes
ces variations sur un même thème nous donnent une autre indication
de la manière dont les anciens musivarii travaillaient. Je suis
persuade qu'ils disposaient de livres ou rouleaux de modèles a
montrer aux architectes et clients pour qu'ils fassent leur choix.
Dans certains cas, plusieurs thèmes pouvaient être utilises au sein
d'une même mosaïque. J’écrirais plus longuement une autre fois au
sujet du perroquet que vous pouvez voir dans le coin inférieur droit de la mosaïque d'Ostie. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">L'une
des raisons pour laquelle je visite tous ces musées et sites
archéologiques Européens est que je suis en train de composer une
collection de motifs géométriques utilises par les mosaïstes
Romains. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tout
cela prend pas mal de temps car certains d'entre eux sont forts
complexes...
Ils
sont toutefois magnifiques et apportent a la pièce centrale qu'ils
bordent la profondeur et l’intensité qu'un cadre flamboyant peut
apporter a une peinture.</span></span> </div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Je
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">vivant
a Headland en Alabama </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">dans
le Sud des Etats Unis. </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">J'aime
inspirer les gens. </span></span></i></div>
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Frederic Lecuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16799014615525195086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5987816540087962363.post-23657471608582237482017-08-24T11:30:00.000-07:002017-08-24T11:30:02.166-07:00Mosaic Art - Portrait of a German Shepherd.<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is an other example of a gorgeous opus pixellatum mosaic pet portrait.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amy Galbavy is the owner of <a href="http://sassyglassonline.com/" target="_blank">Sassy Glass on line</a>. We met last April in Atlanta where I was teaching a class on <a href="https://mosaicblues.blogspot.com/2017/04/how-to-mosaic-art-principles-of-opus.html" target="_blank">Opus Pixellatum Mosaic Portraits.</a></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amy and her eyes mosaic portrait.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After the class, Amy asked me to realize for her models for 3 mosaics, One of her beautiful daughter and two of her late German Shepherds who had passed not long before that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">She sent me pictures of them and I got in my design mode.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">From this picture I created 3 different grayscale models and eailed them to Amy so she would chose the one she best liked.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amy went for the top model. The mosaic was to be 16 x 16", realized with 8mm tiles (5/16"). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I created the actual model and e-mailed it to Amy. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SeJqOYLpoDU/WZoNp_cMQWI/AAAAAAAAVLg/tufQUshxuQ0xFW6I3F9_8Ag3yxwzVTB4gCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/page1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ths one of the 8 pages composing the full model." border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SeJqOYLpoDU/WZoNp_cMQWI/AAAAAAAAVLg/tufQUshxuQ0xFW6I3F9_8Ag3yxwzVTB4gCK4BGAYYCw/s400/page1.png" title="individual page (1 out 8) of a mosaic model for German Shepherd portrait." width="312" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because she had decided to print it herself I had formatted the model to be printed on 8 standard letter size sheets (8.5 x 11").</span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5DuL7yMQWe8/WZoPDosQAjI/AAAAAAAAVL8/jKJ4kIQm0akbxWpwP9UCR6eLw_zWtwkrgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/opus_pixellatum_model_German_Shepherd_mosaic_portrait_8_pages_800x620px.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="the eight pages are assembled to produce the full 16x16" model" border="0" height="310" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5DuL7yMQWe8/WZoPDosQAjI/AAAAAAAAVL8/jKJ4kIQm0akbxWpwP9UCR6eLw_zWtwkrgCK4BGAYYCw/s400/opus_pixellatum_model_German_Shepherd_mosaic_portrait_8_pages_800x620px.jpg" title="8 letter size sheets model for German Shepherd mosaic portrait" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 8 pages model.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Although the model was realized in Grayscale, Amy used a Sepia scale of colors to realize her mosaic. </span></span> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vYAVVUiGrl8/WZoO52awPNI/AAAAAAAAVL0/Q5PBsbkH1V8EMu1cuS3CVtIK-QMJYwmdACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/German_Shepherd_mosaic_portrait_opus_pixellatum_800x796px.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The artist switched from grayscale to Sepia tones." border="0" height="397" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vYAVVUiGrl8/WZoO52awPNI/AAAAAAAAVL0/Q5PBsbkH1V8EMu1cuS3CVtIK-QMJYwmdACK4BGAYYCw/s400/German_Shepherd_mosaic_portrait_opus_pixellatum_800x796px.JPG" title="16 x 16" German Shepherd mosaic portrait in Sepia tones." width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mosaic completed by Amy.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the beauties of this technique is that it allows for many variations from a same model. (See my article about <a href="https://mosaicblues.blogspot.com/2017/08/meet-daniel-adams-outstanding-graphic.html" target="_blank">Daniel Adams</a>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will create for you a model of a mosaic of your pet as I did for Amy. This printed model comes
with a list and quantities of the tiles needed and instructions to
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Frederic Lecuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16799014615525195086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5987816540087962363.post-12954773919700476612017-08-19T13:00:00.002-07:002017-08-20T16:29:48.550-07:00A mosaic portrait of Mugen, Border Collie extraordinaire.<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; }</style>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">About 12 years ago, I fell in love with Tosca, my sister’s Border Collie ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">About a year later, a friend of mine having located a breeder with puppies not to far from home, I went there to look at them. I wanted a black and white female like Tosca. I ended up with a Red Male...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I named him Mugen – a Japanese words meaning Endless or Infinity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A loving and cheerful companion, Mugen had an endless creativity. Life never was boring around him ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Extremely loving and sociable, he knew everyone in the neighborhood and everybody knew him, cooked for him, invited him to play, drive, spend the night and they would drive him home. I was just known as Mugen’s Dad...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Mugen accidentally died in 2014 I was heartbroken...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since I have this year created several mosaic models of beloved pets for their owners, I decided to build a mosaic to celebrate Mugen’s memory, based on the above pi<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">c</span>ture of him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is the picture I worked from :</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eBpEQ42dM5o/WZiNruNvCjI/AAAAAAAAVHg/DbAEUAgXznU9qwm26HsG_SU0H_bfzcL7gCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Closeup_Portrait_Eyes_of_Mugen_Red_Border_Collie.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Eyes of Mugen, Red Border Collie, picture used to create a mosaic model." border="0" height="252" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eBpEQ42dM5o/WZiNruNvCjI/AAAAAAAAVHg/DbAEUAgXznU9qwm26HsG_SU0H_bfzcL7gCK4BGAYYCw/s400/Closeup_Portrait_Eyes_of_Mugen_Red_Border_Collie.png" title="Portrait of the Eyes of Mugen, 5 years old Red Border Collie." width="400" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Using my <a href="https://mosaicblues.blogspot.com/2017/04/how-to-mosaic-art-principles-of-opus.html" target="_blank">Opus Pixellatum</a> technique to realize this project, I created a model and had it printed.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zO3MYvlGgwk/WZiO-hF2ReI/AAAAAAAAVHs/JKw2ctAJZtAEIbe2FG-pb1mQey-5L0MVgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Mugen_mosaic_model_of_Border_Collie_Pet_dog_portrait_800x519px.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="This Opus Pixellatum model is composed of numbers referencing colors of tiles to use to build the mosaic. " border="0" height="260" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zO3MYvlGgwk/WZiO-hF2ReI/AAAAAAAAVHs/JKw2ctAJZtAEIbe2FG-pb1mQey-5L0MVgCK4BGAYYCw/s400/Mugen_mosaic_model_of_Border_Collie_Pet_dog_portrait_800x519px.jpg" title="Opus Pixellatum Model for Mosaic Portrait of a Red Border Collie Dog." width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Opus Pixellatum model for the Mugen Mosaic.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I cut a piece of fiberglass mesh to be glued on top of it (the dark rectangle on the bench above the model)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And started to glue my tesserae on top of the mesh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I first lay every other tesserae, because it helps the glue set faster, and also because it allows me to later use - if I decide to do so - colors different from what is called by the model. This is one of the many variations allowed by <a href="https://mosaicblues.blogspot.com/2017/04/how-to-mosaic-art-principles-of-opus.html" target="_blank">Opus Pixellatum</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you would like to <span style="color: red;">build yourself a mosaic portrait of your pet,</span> I will create a model of it from your picture. This printed model comes with a list and quantities of the tiles needed and instructions to carry out the work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Beside the fact that such mosaic will end up costing you a fraction of the cost of a regular piece, you will have the great joy and satisfaction of building yourself a faithful and long lasting portrait of the beloved creature who faithfully shares or shared your life ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My Art is about inspirin</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">g people.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can see some of my work at <a href="http://www.mosaicblues.com/" target="_blank">www.mosaicblues.com </a></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Generally, mosaic artists do not start in life as artists, and it is fascinating to discuss with them how they got into the Art. I first met Daniel Adams last April 2017 in Decatur, Georgia at a mosaic seminar co-hosted by <a href="https://mosaicartsupply.com/" target="_blank">Mosaic Art Supply.</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had invented my Opus Pixellatum mosaic technique in 2015 to build several portraits of the eyes of Yezidi refugees. As I assembled the mosaics, I realized the technique allowed for such a wide range of variations that I was going to need help to figure them out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And so Joe Moorman and I co-organized this event -seminar to get people started in Opus Pixellatum by building a mosaic portrait of their own eyes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Art is a creation of humanity. Every society that is functioning has this activity as a part of it. “Art”, or the arts (visual, music, dramatic, poetic, literary, dance, etc) are expressions of the artist(s) thinking and feeling about certain subjects. The subject matter of art ranges widely including: simple observation of the natural world, mystical interpretations, religious devotion, political activism, social commentary, abstract symbolism, and deeply personal therapy. Some artists simply play around with forms (colors, compositions, lines, patterns, etc) to see what shows itself as something interesting to contemplate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I teach art and design at Harding University in Arkansas. We have a number of international programs—one of which is Harding University in Greece (HUG). We study academic subjects, such as the humanities, Biblical archeology and Modern Greek. We also explore the Greek Islands and other nations close by (Egypt, Turkey, Israel.) My interest in mosaics was piqued as we were traveling through northern Greece and came to the ruins of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pella" target="_blank">Pella, the birthplace of Alexander the Great</a>. The stone mosaic floors of the wealthy houses that had been uncovered were amazing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As a printmaker, many of the techniques we use to create images involve pattern and these floors were covered in intricate patterns made of stones. I had seen glass tesserae mosaics in Rome and Ravenna in Roman and Byzantine churches before. They were nice, but for some reason the effect of the repetitive stone patterns spoke to me. After the semester in Greece I returned to my normal printmaking and didn’t think much about it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A few years later I had the blessing to be able to take art students to Ghana, West Africa, to paint murals in an orphanage near the southern coast of Ghana. There I fell in love with the abstract patterns of palm fronds. So once back home, I began a series of black and white prints of these fascinating patterns. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I think for untrained individuals who are wanting to explore mosaic in a more structured way, Opus Pixellatum gives them the confidence to move from simply “filling in the dots” to exploring how variations and personal choices change the status quo, and how that can be so exciting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I think this would be great fun. Do I understand that this would be the same model for everyone and then they would all just go at it, approaching it in their own unique way?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>That's exactly what we have in mind. I am considering using the picture above as model, as several people have created many variations of her already. We believe this would allow people to
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am just beginning to explore the connections between how I have been creating prints over the years (both etchings and relief prints) and the aesthetic challenges posed by mosaics. I have been working on a series of glass block window relief prints for about eight years now. (RP figs below). I am exploring light with these prints. I’d like to see what I can do with this same pursuit of light with mosaic tiles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of the issues with the obsession to create is the lack of attention to my personal website. The work represented on <a href="http://www.danieladamsink.com/">www.danieladamsink.com</a> captures a good history of the past 15-20 years of my printmaking work. </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/printmakr/?hl=en" target="_blank">@printmakr</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/DanielAdamsInk" target="_blank">@DanielAdamsInk</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is Instagram where my most recent creative activities first show up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Be very curious!</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Ask the question, “What if…?” Be okay with slowing down and taking your time to place tiles. Don’t be upset if your piece doesn’t match up to the vision in your head—your head is always far beyond what your present skills can accomplish. Use that frustration to spur you on to keep trying, keep adjusting, keep producing. Don’t stop after the first one and think “I can check that off my list.” Your first one is just the turning of the knob and barely opening the door into a new and different experience. You see, with the amount of mosaics I have under my belt, I’ve barely crossed over the threshold into the next room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u><i>Great advice Daniel, Thank you very much !</i></u></b> </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can see some of my work at <a href="http://www.mosaicblues.com/" target="_blank">www.mosaicblues.com </a></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Capitoline Mosaic of the Doves was discovered in 1737 during archaeological excavations of Emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian" target="_blank">Hadrian</a>’s Villa.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While some scholars believe this beauty is the actual Dove Mosaic built by
the famous 2nd century BC Sosus of Pergamon and mentioned by Pliny in his Natural History, others believe it to be a 2nd century AD copy of it made for Hadrian.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Numerous copies were made of this mosaic, even into late
antiquity. In addition to Tivoli, these have been found at Delos; at
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In other parts of the Empire and in the Christian
mausoleums of Santa Costanza in Rome and <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/carolemage/32189431156/" target="_blank">Galla Placidia</a> in Ravenna. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c4WKT3D7l8k/WYJR6uH7c7I/AAAAAAAAU_I/n7A-aVIX7bMEysYWxWWiYWRZQD8I_KJzACLcBGAs/s1600/Mosaic_doves_mausoleo_di_galla_placidia_colombe_Ravenna_Italy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The iconography of the doves drinking from the foutain of life ("a well of water springing up into everlasting life." John 4, 14) is repeated four times in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, above the four arches supporting the tambour and the vaulted ceiling." border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="840" height="218" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c4WKT3D7l8k/WYJR6uH7c7I/AAAAAAAAU_I/n7A-aVIX7bMEysYWxWWiYWRZQD8I_KJzACLcBGAs/s400/Mosaic_doves_mausoleo_di_galla_placidia_colombe_Ravenna_Italy.jpg" title="Doves Mosaic from the Gallia Placidia Mausoleo, Ravenna, 5th century AD" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I consider the finest of all to be the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/emblema-art" target="_blank">emblema </a>discovered at Hadrian’s Villa, m</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ade of thousands of very small tesserae - 2 to 3 mm squares, a technique named <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/opus-vermiculatum" target="_blank"><i>opus vermiculatum</i></a>,
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A fragment of the outside border of this mosaic is displayed at the </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_de_l%27Arles_et_de_la_Provence_antiques" target="_blank">Musee d'Arles Antique</a> this summer. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The tesserae used to build this border were no bigger than 3 mm (0.11"). Usually this size of tessera was only used for the center piece - the emblema, and regular Opus Tessellatum built from bigger tesserae was used for the borders. Hadrian was a protector of the Arts. Those kind of Chef d'Oeuvre were only assembled in a couple of very specialized workshops of the Empire by very highly skilled craftsmen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Those variations of a same pattern are an other example of the way ancient musivarii worked. I believe they had books or scrolls of models for the architets or patrons to chose from. In some cases, several patterns were mixed in a same mosaic (I will write something later about the parrot you can see in the lower right corner of the piece from Ostia...)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bavay, l'Antique Bagatum, était la capitale des Nerviens, une tribu de la Belgique Gauloise qui avait presque vaincu César à la <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_du_Sabis" target="_blank">Bataille d<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">u</span> Sabis</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> en 57 avant JC.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">L'importance politique, militaire et économique de Bagatum pour l'empire fit que Rome decida d'y construire un forum impressionnant, le plus grand jamais fouillé en France.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Les archéologues y ont mis a jour des mosaïques d'exquise facture décorant bâtiments tant publics que privés et pos</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">é</span>es selon des motifs géométriques précis et rigoureux.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">La mosaïque de Louvignies posée au-dessus d'un Hypocauste - la version romaine du Chauffage Central tr</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">é</span>s appreci</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">é</span>e durant les hivers de la Gaule du Nord<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">re</span>couvr<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ait</span> le sol d'une villa privée. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">À 5 mm<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">de cot</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">é</span></span></span></span>, les Tesselles de Louvignies sont beaucoup plus petites que celles de la Grande Rue. Elles se conjuguent en cinq couleurs : Noir, Blanc, Orange, Jaune et Gris.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">L<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">e <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">peu</span></span> qui nous reste de cette <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">superbe</span> mosaïque sont <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">d</span>es motifs géométriques de rectangles, <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">l</span>osanges et guilloch</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">és.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">J</span>e pense cependant qu'elle devait a l'origine comporter plusieurs portraits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I</span>l ne nous reste que 20 % de la piece originalle qui mesurait 7 x 7 m lorsqu<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'elle fut decouverte. Et cependant, bien </span>qu'elle ait été construite avec 5 couleurs seulement, la Mosaïque de Louvignies est absolument <span style="color: red;">GRANDIOSE !</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">L</span>a prochaine fois que vous pensez avoir besoin d'un grand nombre de nuances pour r</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">é</span></span>aliser une mosaique<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">,</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">souvenez-</span>vous donc que nos ancêtres musivarii surent faire des merveilles avec<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> juste </span>2 ou 5 couleurs ...</span></div>
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Frederic Lecuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16799014615525195086noreply@blogger.com059570 Bavay, France50.298389 3.794194000000061450.2578105 3.7135130000000611 50.3389675 3.8748750000000616tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5987816540087962363.post-4204951566914341552017-07-19T04:13:00.002-07:002017-07-19T04:13:44.652-07:00Roman Mosaic Art in Bavay, Northern France<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bavay, the Antic Bagatum, was the capital of the Nervii, a tribe of Belgian Gauls which almost defeated Caesar at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sabis" target="_blank">battle of the Sabis.</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was an important political, strategic and economical town and Rome built there an impressive Forum, the biggest ever been excavated in France.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The archaeologists revealed exquisite mosaic art decorating public and private buildings laid in precious and very accurate geometric patterns.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">2 major mosaic floors were excavated in 1955 and 1959.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Grande Rue mosaic came from the forum itself.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Grande Rue Mosaic in Bavay</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Its superb arrangement of 10 mm (3/8") black and white tesserae was laid in patterns of meanders and svastiska on one side and lobelled circles on the other side.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Louvignies mosaic covering the floor of a private villa was expertly laid on top of an <a href="https://www.britannica.com/technology/hypocaust" target="_blank">Hypocaust - the Roman version of Central Heating</a> much needed during the winters of Northern Gaul.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">At 5 mm (3/16") the Louvignies tesserae are much smaller than the Grande Rue ones.Their five colors are Black, White, Orange, Yellow and Grey. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OoV7-f8OTw0/WW5_2whxzTI/AAAAAAAAU0U/eO-4gOPqflAQc5D8B04YJWvix0xL75whQCLcBGAs/s1600/Bavay-Louvignies-Mosaic-northern-france-%2B5-colors-800x450px.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Details of the Tesserae of the Louvignies Mosaic in Bavay, Northern France." border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OoV7-f8OTw0/WW5_2whxzTI/AAAAAAAAU0U/eO-4gOPqflAQc5D8B04YJWvix0xL75whQCLcBGAs/s400/Bavay-Louvignies-Mosaic-northern-france-%2B5-colors-800x450px.jpg" title="Details of the Tesserae" width="400" /></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most of what is left of this bright mosaic are geometric patterns of Rectangles, Losanges, Octagons and Meanders. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But I believe several portraits were originally part of it.<br /> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So the next time you consider designing a mosaic, and believe you need many different nuances, try to remember our Greek and Roman ancestors were able to work wonders with 2 or 5 colors....</span></span><br />
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<br />Frederic Lecuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16799014615525195086noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5987816540087962363.post-29169918703331039632017-07-11T12:06:00.000-07:002017-07-11T12:06:45.584-07:00Recurring patterns in Ceramic and Mosaic Arts in the Antiquity. <div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="eg" title="Example">What is fascinating about them is that patterns seem to perdure possibly forever, once they have been set. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />This glazed tile, dated 875 - 850 BC is part of the collections of the British Museum. It was excavated from royal palace of the <a data-gaaction="clicked" data-gacategory="annotation" data-galabel="assetpage_injected_link_v1" href="https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/entity/m0wmn">Assyrian</a> city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrud" target="_blank">Nimrud</a>, which was first destroyed at the end of the 7th century BC and again by islamist terrorists in 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now what really got my interest when I first saw this picture was not the representation of another victorious king, (They never seem to represent losers. I wonder why ?) but the rounded decorative pattern of the border below the King.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A thousand year later Roman mosaicists laid this beautiful mosaic of a boxing scene from the Aeneid on the floor of a Gallo-Roman Villa in <a href="http://www.villalaurus-enluberon.net/history-of-mosaics.html" target="_blank">Villelaure</a> (France) .</span><br />
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Frederic Lecuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16799014615525195086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5987816540087962363.post-27736393089603505502017-07-01T19:32:00.000-07:002017-07-04T16:45:32.734-07:00Modelos personalizados de mosaico<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">¿Alguna vez has querido dar un intento en el arte del mosaico, parero te sintiste abrumado por su aparente complejidad? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br />Creé en 2015 una técnica de mosaico nueva y fácil de implementar. La llamé </span><a href="http://mosaicblues.blogspot.com/2017/04/how-to-mosaic-art-principles-of-opus.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;" target="_blank">“Opus Pixellatum”.</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Opus Pixellatum es una técnica de introducción perfecta para el arte del mosaico. Debido a que al principio esta técnica sólo utiliza tesseras cuadradas de las mismas dimensiones, dispuestos en líneas horizontales y verticales, <span style="color: red;">no se necesitan ninguna corte</span>. Tu simplemente tienes que pegar tus tesseras en un modelo, llenar la brecha entre ellos, y voila, tu mosaico está completo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Y como funciona esto ?</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Envíame una foto de lo que te gustaría representar en mosaico.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">De tu imagen, creo un modelo que se parece a una hoja de cálculo.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Se compone de muchos pequeños cuadrados numerotados.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Cada número corresponde a un color de azulejo específico. También proveo las cantidades que necesitarás de cada azulejo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1408</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">860</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Las referencias son las de las tesseras de vidrio de 8 mm de <a href="http://www.mosaicartsupply.com/" target="_blank">Mosaicartsupply</a> en Atlanta, GA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Tu puedes ordenar los azulejos de MosaicArtSupply o puedo hacerlo para ti.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Si deseas utilizar otras teseras, puedo diseñar un modelo basado en ellas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Una vez que tengas tu modelo y azulejos, puedes ir a trabajar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Coloque su modelo en su mesa de trabajo y empezas a pegar sus tesseras en él. Puedes utilizar cualquier pegamento soluble en agua como el pegamento Elmer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">En este particular mosaico del Gueparito, estaba trabajando del método inverso, pegando mis tesseras al revés encima de mi modelo plastificado.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Para trabajar en el método directo, to pones un pedazo de malla de fibra de vidrio sobre tu modelo y pegas sus tesseras en esta malla.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Después de un rato, tu mosaico está listo para montar en un cuadro rígido.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Si trabajas el método inverso como lo hice este mosaico del guepardito tu pegas el soporte encima de él.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">El Gueparito (Cheetah Cub) por encima se realizó de colores, mientras que los ojos de Amy abajo se construyeron de una escala de grises.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br />De un mismo modelo, muchas, muchas variaciones son possibles. Puede cambiar la paleta de colores de la escala de Grises a Sepia, escala azul o escala de Grises invertida. También puede optar por realizar partes del mosaico del Opus Tessellatum ordinario - la técnica clássica romana o griega.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Opus Pixellatum es una <span style="color: red;">técnica increíblemente versátil.</span> Empieza como "mosaico por número" y luego te permite una infinidad de variaciones. ¡La gran belleza de esta técnica es que permite a un principiante total realizar una primera pieza muy hermosa!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">J'ai créé en 2015 une nouvelle technique de mosaïque facile à mettre en oeuvre. Je l'ai appelée <a href="http://mosaicblues.blogspot.com/2017/04/how-to-mosaic-art-principles-of-opus.html" target="_blank">“Opus Pixellatum”.</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Opus
Pixellatum est une technique d'introduction parfaite à l'art de la
mosaïque. Parce qu'au début, cette technique n'utilise que des tesselles
carrées de mêmes dimensions, disposées en lignes horizontales et
verticales, <span style="color: red;">aucune coupe n'est requise.</span> Vous collez simplement vos
tesselles sur un modèle et remplissez les joints avec un mortier ad-hoc,
et voila, votre mosaïque est terminée.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Comment ça marche ?</span></span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pour commencer vous
m'envoyez une photo de ce que vous souhaitez représenter.
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pmXtOBfBLOg/WUl6uanWhHI/AAAAAAAAUR0/KkIYm6xDBXAulidutw1THt6P6LWsZjmdgCLcBGAs/s1600/Cheetah-cub-model-for-opus-pixellatum-glass-%2Bmosaic.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Le jeune Guépard sujet du portrait en mosaïque en verre Opus Pixellatum" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pmXtOBfBLOg/WUl6uanWhHI/AAAAAAAAUR0/KkIYm6xDBXAulidutw1THt6P6LWsZjmdgCLcBGAs/s400/Cheetah-cub-model-for-opus-pixellatum-glass-%2Bmosaic.png" title="Adorable jeune guepard dans le Serengeti" width="400" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jeune Guépard dans le desert du Serengeti.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A partir de votre
photo, je crée un modèle qui ressemble à une page de tableur.
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-swhsK2HDrAc/WUl7x3DHl6I/AAAAAAAAUR8/ltD8UhX3QDkt_mdhZ7blnDU_19Imdac-wCLcBGAs/s1600/Cheetah-cub-mosaic-laminated-model%2B800x512.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Portrait de mosaique d'un jeune guépard – le modèle plastifie sur ma table de travail dans mon atelier en Alabama." border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="800" height="255" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-swhsK2HDrAc/WUl7x3DHl6I/AAAAAAAAUR8/ltD8UhX3QDkt_mdhZ7blnDU_19Imdac-wCLcBGAs/s400/Cheetah-cub-mosaic-laminated-model%2B800x512.jpg" title="Modele pour portrait de mosaique d'un jeune guépard." width="400" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Le modèle plastifie
sur l’établi</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">C'est une
sorte de grille ou tableau composé de carrés numérotés.</span></span></span><br />
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YuXtA_ikRo4/WUl7_8I063I/AAAAAAAAUSA/qXw-MQAIY14CoGbvcUCjPTW1M1nkIzQ1gCLcBGAs/s1600/Cheetah-cub-mosaic-laminated-model-detail%2B800x512.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt=" COrner of laminated mosaic model showing the numbered squares. Coin inférieur gauche du modèle de mosaïque du jeune guepard montraqnt les cases numerotees." border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="800" height="255" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YuXtA_ikRo4/WUl7_8I063I/AAAAAAAAUSA/qXw-MQAIY14CoGbvcUCjPTW1M1nkIzQ1gCLcBGAs/s400/Cheetah-cub-mosaic-laminated-model-detail%2B800x512.jpg" title=" COrner of laminated mosaic model showing the numbered squares. Coin inférieur gauche du modèle de mosaïque du jeune guepard." width="400" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Coin inférieur
gauche du modèle de mosaïque du jeune guepard.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chaque numéro correspond à une couleur de tesselle.
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Avec le modèle, je fournis les quantités de tesselles dont vous aurez besoin. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tesselles pour
mosaïque du guépard</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid #000000; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0.04in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Référence</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 0.04in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Quantité</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">100</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">26</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">250</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">27</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">300</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">29</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">100</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">32</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">100</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">42</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1400</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">43</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">200</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">44</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">860</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">46</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">200</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">49</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">300</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">62</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1206</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">65</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">100</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">66</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1089</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">69</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">450</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">95</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">100</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">96</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">150</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">104</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">250</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">108</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">100</span></td>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" width="99"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">109</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in;" width="111"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">286</span></td>
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commander les tesselles directement a MosaicArtSupply ou je peux les
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utiliser différentes tesselles, je peux concevoir un modèle sur la
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Posez votre modèle
sur votre établi et commencez à coller vos tesselles sur
celui-ci. Utilisez de préférence une colle soluble a l'eau telle que
la colle Elmer.
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sur cette mosaïque
du jeune Guépard, je travaillais en méthode inversée, collant mes
tesselles à l'envers sur le modèle plastifie.</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pour travailler en
méthode directe, vous couvrez le modèle d'un treillis en fibre de
verre et vous y collez vos tesselles.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aQDYJchke8I/WUl9U-OeWwI/AAAAAAAAUSQ/6E79KAkYEWc88aUMmT9T5Yl9Lc5RXExgQCLcBGAs/s1600/Cheetah-cub-mosaic-portrait-ready-to-flip%2B800x628.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Portrait mosaïque du jeune guépard, toutes tesselles posees. Prêt à être encollée sur son support." border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="800" height="313" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aQDYJchke8I/WUl9U-OeWwI/AAAAAAAAUSQ/6E79KAkYEWc88aUMmT9T5Yl9Lc5RXExgQCLcBGAs/s400/Cheetah-cub-mosaic-portrait-ready-to-flip%2B800x628.jpg" title="Portrait mosaïque du jeune guépard, toutes tesselles en place. Prêt à être collée sur son support." width="400" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">La mosaique du jeune guepard, toutes tesseles posees. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Si vous avez
travaillé en méthode inversée comme dans le cas de cette mosaïque du jeune Guépard, vous collez le support par dessus.</span></span>
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travaillé directement, vous décollez simplement le treillis de fibre de verre du
modèle plastifie et le collez sur son support.
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des yeux de Daniel encollée sur son support. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Une fois votre
mosaïque en place sur son support - après quelques heures en
méthode directe, 48 heures en mode inversé - vous pouvez faire les joints et
les finitions.</span></span></span><br />
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jeune guépard ci-dessus a été réalisée en couleurs, tandis que
les yeux d'Amy ci-dessous ont été construits sur une palette de
Gris.
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également choisir de réaliser certaines parties de la mosaïque en Opus
Tessellatum - la technique classique romaine ou grecque.
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une <span style="color: red;">technique extraordinairement versatile.</span> Au debut, c’est de la
"mosaïque par numéro" mais tres rapidement elle vous
permet une infinité de variations. La beauté de cette technique est
qu'elle permet à un novice de réaliser une très belle première
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Participants au séminaire « Mosaic Fiesta », Avril 2017 à
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article, je partagerai avec vous quelques superbes mosaïques
realisees par certains de mes étudiants et clients.
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Si vous souhaitez
créer votre propre mosaïque en fonction de votre image ou de votre
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