Mosaic contemporary art

Une mosaïque peut durer longtemps, des millénaires, sans s’abîmer. C’est avec cette idée que le street artist Bachor couvre les rues de Chicago

Rachel Bremner is a Tasmanian mosaic artist working with traditional materials, smalti, marble, stone.

Next time you're looking for great art, try watching your step.

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…

Cheeky-Mosaic12

Looking for new ways to understand mosaics? Have you yet explored the enthralling movement in kinetic mosaic artworks? In visual art, the term kinetic art, derived from the Greek word “kinesis”, refers to works that incorporate an apparent movement. Thus, for instance, it may include mosaic art, defined by its unique aspect of integrating motion into its splendor and purpose. Unlike traditional mosaic art, kinetic mosaics are created by a combination of both, accurate details and natural…