Jonaithan Mabdell <Mosaics>

Mosaics by Jonathan Mandell    2007/05/11 07:51
원문출처 : ariel's treasure
The mosaic process is a combination of sculpture and painting. Pieces of tile and stone are shaped to fit their neighbors in order to create a pictorial image. Elements of perspective and color and composition are resolved in order to afford a painterly quality to the mosaic.                          Floral Landscape 2005 - made with convex and concave glass shards                            Nature Study II - is made using glass shards, aragonite (red crystal),                    fluorite (light blue), red calcite, tangerine quartz, pyrite, iridescent shell,                    fossilized coral, citrine, and amethyst.                            Dutch Landscape 2004 - The sun is made from charoite (purple). The                    brown stone to the lower right is stromatolite (fossilized algae). the aqua                    colored stone in the lower left corner is a agregate of chrysocolla (aqua),                    malachite, (green), and quartz (white).                             Landscape with Two Rivers 2004 - This mosaic is made using glass shards                     which are convex and concave.                            Floral Study #2 - The frame is made from ceramic tile, glass gems and                    amethyst crystals. The flowers are made using: chevron amethyst,                    howlite, yellow quartz, zebra marble, tiger-eye, yellow jasper, carnelian,                    rose quartz, rhodonite, rhodochrosite, turritella agate, leopard skin jasper,                    citrine, blue lace agate, unakite, jade and aventurine.                             Pleasant Thoughts 2005 - This mosaic is made using ceramic tile, glass                    shards and lapidary.                            Piano Music                             A Little English 2003 - The cue sticks are made using Pergo wood laminate.                     The billiard balls are made using glass marbles. The pockets are tiger eye.                     The juke box in the upper right is made with hickoryite, mirror and nickel.                            Hora Dance - The frame is made of iridescent pink and glossy black glass                    gems. The corners have amethyst crystals combined with green glass gems                    to create a fleuret design.  In larger mosaics like this, there are as many as                    thirty varieties of stones and minerals combined with stained glass, mirror                    and other objects.                             Batter’s Swing - made using ceramic tile and tigereye. Grout joints and                     baseball are painted to accentuate the action of those lines.                            Nisqually 2001, - This mosaic was made with glass chards from work that                    glass artist, Dale Chihuly, lost in the Nisqually earthquake. Additionally,                               it features a snowflake obsidian (volcanic glass) sky with spheres carved                     from rhodonite, labradorite, moss agate, and yellow jasper.