Modern mosaics

Teaching Yourself Mosaics, Part II: Books, forums and experiments. Mosaic artists from around the world tell Helen Miles Mosaics how they taught themselves.

Our mosaic artist creates delicate works of art out of beautiful shards of enamel. Painstakingly juxtaposing the pieces to create colorful and life-like mosaics that are truly unique. The movement in each piece suggests the energy that is put into it, as well as her thorough understanding of fluidity. Through a dedication to color and tone, each artwork is full of life.

Cover Photo: Courtesy of Luca Barberini Modern mosaic art can be quite dense and difficult to understand because modern mosaicists are challenged to craft artworks that go beyond the obvious. Instead of creating decorative mosaics of realistic landscapes and still lifes, they developed a mode of communication to transmit a sort of message to the viewers. This article offers an amenable overview of modern mosaic art through 10 mosaic artworks. From Sonia King’s mosaics of coded messages and…

Cover Photos: Courtesy of Sonia King To celebrate International Women’s Day on Wednesday 8 March, I come up with a list of 10 of the world’s most inspiring women mosaicists. 10 selected mosaicists from over a 100 nominees, had a great impact on almost every corner of the world, and made it think differently about mosaic art. Nathalie Vin On International Women’s Day, I’m glad to start my list with an incredible artist, who I’m proud to call a friend! I loved the digital photos of her…

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Artist Jim Bachor (previously) continued his guerrilla effort to remedy Chicago’s pothole problem by creating a number of flower mosaics in streets around the city. Bachor installed four mosaics through this fall while the weather cooperated, but as things get wet and cooler we’ll probably see a bit less of his, uhm, street art. I’m not sure if any of these are still around, but he keeps a list of photos and addresses where each piece was installed. More

Daniel Barenboim once said that every great work of art has two sides, one towards its own time and one towards the future, towards eternity. By reading this, I felt the need to take a look at the artistic fusion that fell under the global mosaic art community this year! Let's have a look at these are 10 wonderful mosaic designs exhibited this year!

To celebrate International Women’s day, here are 6 female mosaicists that are behind some of the most marvelous mosaic artwork that you should know about.

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