Sam Francis

Untitled, 1984

106.7 X 73 inch

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What is a mosaic?

What is a mosaic?

Mosaic is the process of creating images using many different pieces of colored tile or glass. It can take hundreds placed closely together to build an entire work. The pieces are organized like puzzles, with each piece being part of the whole picture.

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Piero Dorazio

Vortice, 1989

Sculpture / Object

Mosaic

EUR 2,000

Joana Vasconcelos

Azulejos 6, 2021

Ceramics

Mosaic

EUR 4,000

Joana Vasconcelos

Azulejos 5, 2021

Ceramics

Mosaic

EUR 4,000

Joana Vasconcelos

Azulejos 4, 2021

Ceramics

Mosaic

EUR 4,000

Joana Vasconcelos

Azulejos 3, 2021

Ceramics

Mosaic

EUR 4,000

Joana Vasconcelos

Azulejos 2, 2021

Ceramics

Mosaic

EUR 4,000

Joana Vasconcelos

Azulejos 1, 2021

Ceramics

Mosaic

EUR 4,000

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Xiamen Dada

Xiamen Dada was a Chinese artist group from Xiamen city, on China’s southeast coast. The group, coming to prominence in the 1980s, explored the relationship between Chan Buddhism and European dada, embracing the absurd while using chance to determine the artworks made.

Constructivism

An architectural and artistic philosophy of Russian origin that came as a rejection of the concept or idea of the famous autonomous art. The movement favored art as the best practice for the common social purposes. Since its origin in the year 1919, Constructivism has evolved and impacted in the 20th century art movements thus influencing major trends including De Stijl and Bauhaus movements.

Photorealism

Genre of art or artistic movement that encompasses, drawing, painting and some other graphic media where an artist carefully studies and understands an image in photograph then attempts to reproduce it in another medium realistically as much as possible. Though the term can be used to describe artwork broadly, it can also be used to refer to a specific group of painters and paintings in the U.S. art movement that came to being in late 1960 and early 1970.

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