Video: Royal Button Mosaics by Anna Carrington
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
What could be easier than sewing on a button? For many it is a mere trifle, but for an English artist Ann Carrington also a whole art. And all because, with the help of these same buttons, she creates amazing mosaics, which in their beauty are not inferior to real paintings.
To create her canvases, the craftswoman always chooses unusual objects - these can be buttons, pins or metal coins. Each item, according to Anna Carrington, carries a deep cultural meaning. Even everyday items like knives, gloves, shoes, and even cans can have a unique history. The artist's "piggy bank" contains a series of Pearly Queens paintings made of mother-of-pearl buttons, inspired by the royal fashion show in London, as well as a "denim" American flag.
For Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee, Anne Carrington made a special canvas embellished with over 500,000 gold buttons on a red velvet background. Creating mosaics is a painstaking job, it takes an artist about 3-4 months to completely complete a masterpiece, as she often works on several projects in parallel. By the way, the idea of using buttons in art is not new. On our website Kulturologiya.ru we have already written about embroidery with buttons, and about button art, and even about sculptures from buttons!
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