Mosaic!
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, West Yorkshire
Artist details :-
Niki de Saint Phalle was born in France in 1930 and grew up in the USA. After an early career as a fashion model, she studied theatre and acting in Paris before giving this up to become an artist.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_San_Vitale
per gentile concessione dell'Arcidiocesi di Ravenna
EMILIA ROMAGNA
"Mosaic" is the first transformation of my basic origami-tessellation: 'Blueprint', I want to show you.
Folded from a hexagon 33cm, 'Anett'-paper, grid 1:64".
If you are interested to see more, have a look at my tessellation album Origami - Tessellation Progression".
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As you may have seen, despite of loving architecture I'm not good in photographing buildings, and I don't have the proper lens to do this well.
Here is a mosaic of details from Santiago, with special mention to this strange guardian that I saw in Cerro San Cristobal.
I'm wondering the utility of those spikes...
We were out shopping at Fameshed and I couldn't resist taking a quick pic of my beautiful friend, Katie. She's sassy, sweet, and beautiful both inside & out. ♥
The Savior on Blood Church harks back to medieval Russian architecture in the spirit of romantic nationalism. It intentionally resembles the 17th-century Yaroslavl churches and the celebrated St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.[4]
The church contains over 7500 square meters of mosaics—according to its restorers, more than any other church in the world.The walls and ceilings inside the church are completely covered in intricately detailed mosaics — the main pictures being biblical scenes or figures — but with very fine patterned borders setting off each picture.
The interior was designed by some of the most celebrated Russian artists of the day—including Viktor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Nesterov and Mikhail Vrubel — chief architect, Alfred Alexandrovich Parland,
The exterior of the church is made up of panels depicting scenes from the New Testament. Dujring the Siege starving citizens gathered to pray under the Tympanum finding solace in its depiction of Christ on His throne.
"Eyewitness Travel"
Here's a collage of butterflies & dragonflies & wildlife from waay back in the archives! Lots of new odes & butterflies coming soon.
It seems daunting that we aren't even halfway through the year however, I am working daily to learn something new and apply it. I feel like I need to find some direction for my project. It looks like May was full of flowers, hearts, pinks and blues. I experimented with light, processing and now I have a new lens to play with too.
Delighted to discover this mosaic of the castle and the history of the town installed in the station at Oakham, Rutland.
" Guard well your spare moments, they are like diamonds. Discard them, and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life." {Emerson}
Sosnowiec - underpass - Sielec, ul. Narutowicza.
Niedawno odnowiona mozaika w przejściu podziemnym na Sielcu w Sosnowcu, wykonana za czasów pracy KWK Sosnowiec przez Tadeusza Drążkiewicza.
Link do artykułu na ten temat: sosnowiec.wyborcza.pl/sosnowiec/7,93867,21811977,odnowion...
3x1 panorama (50mm).
This is a small piece of the astounding mosaics (over 7500 square metres) found in the interior of the
Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood.
St. Petersburg - Russia.
Mosaic floor from Kos, Palace of the Grand Masters, Old Town, Rhodes Town, Rhodes, Dodecanese, Greece
Mosaic done an a table measuring 2 ft by 2ft. I had so many different depths that I had to pour resin to even the surface so drinks won't fall over. It worked out nicely!