Video: Portraits from pieces of tiles. Ed Chapman's mosaic art
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
He listens to Sex Pistols and The Doors, honors the Queen of Great Britain and the late Princess Diana, and is nostalgic for the Beatles and Elvis Presley. A self-taught artist, since the early 90s he has been looking for himself in creativity, piece by piece both his own style and his own works. He is a British painter, master of mosaic portraits Ed Chapman … It so happens that a talented artist works for a long, long time and remains unknown, when suddenly one work, done somehow differently from the rest of the works, hits the "bull's-eye" - and the artist immediately becomes famous, and all the others emerge behind this work, equally talented, but not so popular. So it happened in the work of Ed Chapman (Ed Chapman). As soon as he “painted” a portrait of Jimi Hendrix with 5,000 multi-colored picks, other works of the artist came into view of connoisseurs of such art.
Ed Chapman originally used glass and marble pieces for his mosaics, but settled on colorful ceramic tiles. It is from this material that all the main works of the master are created. And these are portraits of Her Majesty the Queen, and Lady Di, and Barack Obama, and Einstein, and the incomparable Salvador Dali. Not to mention musical idols like Madonna and Elvis, Jackson and Lennon. A separate line should be called the famous historical figures and cinematographers, whom Ed Chapman also depicted in mosaic portraits, in which he is a true master.
It's hard to remember all the pieces that Ed Chapman has created over the years. But the site with his portfolio will surely contain a lot of interesting photos.
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