Ceramics and Pottery Arts and Resources

 

 

Yiannis Nanouris

 

 

An eclectic collection of murals consisting of bas relief, high relief, frescoes, friezes and mosaics including classic frescoes from ancient Crete and Egypt and stone reliefs from Mesopotamia. A large body of Art Deco wall reliefs and Mid Century murals are also on display with a selection of new contemporary pieces.
Fernand Legers’s ‘Femmes au Perroquet’ (Woman with a Parrot), which he painted nearly 70 years ago, looks stunning in a bronze relief of fluid perspective and completely at home in a new contemporary architectural setting. Likewise William George Mitchell’s ‘Flock of rams’ bas relief facade, created with bronze- faced glass fibre, is bursting with detail and is a fine example of the eternally intriguing Mid Century brutalist architecture and art. He was the first artist to create integral pieces of concrete art, which were poured into molds at the site  and despite receiving much criticism from the art establishment at the time, he endured with creating his bold abstract public sculpture innovations which has gone on to create continued interest to otherwise drab walls of concrete. (wharfrej),
An excellent 1946 cubist sculpture panel by Le Corbusier is shown along with a lavish bronze African panel from Bruce Onobrakpeya.

 

Art Deco Winged Male Bas Relief

Union Terminal Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio.

 

 

‘Double Door’ sculpture –  Toza and Carl Ekstrom

1960’s  —  photo Lynn Fayman

 

 

Art deco relief panel with heron and parrots on the Wacker Tower building, Chicago

Atelier Teee  —  Flickr

 

 

Angelo Biancini  &  Anselmo Bucci

1946, Italy

 

“Romeo with a crown of grapes playing the guitar while dancing with the sea and the sun,” Cork mural  —  Saimir Strati

Nearly 230,000 corks were used

 

 

Mosaic and relief mural —  Cadet Chapel, Colorado

 

 

 

Ceramic relief created in 1965 depicting missionary Willibrord.

Petrus Canisius College, NL

 

Wood carved Mid Century wall panel Evelyn Ackerman, California

 

 

‘Femmes au Perroquet’ —   1952 bronze relief art sculpture by Fernand Leger

Léger believed in the 30’s that ‘modern art’ represented the dawn of a new and potentially transformational social consciousness — presenting the opportunity to bring art out of the studio and into the everyday sensibility of the public.

Citygarden in downtown St. Louis, Missouri.

 

 

‘Femmes au Perroquet’  (Woman with a Parrot) – Fernand Leger

Christie’s Auctions

 

 

Abstract Mid Century wall relief

Belgium, 70’s

 

Art Deco relief art – Rockefeller Center Architectural Detail, NY

 

 

Bas Relief of the “News” by Isamu Noguchi

Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, Manhattan

 

 

Emoivbo/Beroma – Bruce Onobrakpeya, Nigeria

Artnet

“My childhood experience of the cultural environment of Urhobo and Benin formed the artistic bedrock on which I continue to build,” Bruce explained. “My early exposure to these arts sustained my artistic expressions by giving me access to a world of imagination, through bridging the thin gap between realism, surrealism and abstraction.”

 

 

Art Deco panel with Orpheus

Rescued from California Theater

 

Sanssouci Palace marble bas relief

St. Petersburg

 

 

Bas Relief and painting panel — Janusz Obst

 

 

Marcel Bouraine-large art deco Bas Relief wall panel

1930

 

Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu wall mural

Turkey

 

Hercules bas relief,-U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis,Maryland

Paul McClure-flickr

 

 

‘The confluence of the Civilizations in the Americas’ mural by Carlos Mérida

San Antonio, Texas,  1968

 

 

Ceiling painting of Diana—hallway between statue fountain and lobby

Netherlands Hilton Hotel

 

 

Large coffee bean mosaic mural – Saimir Strati

 

 

 

Sunken wall relief by Le Corbusier

 

 

Darius I Receiving a Median Dignitary Relief Sculpture

Mesopotamia

 

 

William George Mitchell bas relief mural, UK

 

 

Eduardo Vega mosaic mural at Cuenca , Ecuador

Double Barrelled Travel

 

‘Bridge of Chochas’  —  Eric Danquah

 

 

Eduardo Vega tiled ceramic wall panel

 

 

 Long abstract mural spanning 50 metres – Jan Dijker

1960’s

 

‘Heart of Gold’ —John William Moore, USA

  My art represents for me the re-discovery of guiltless instinct to reveal what Shelley described as  “the blank astonishment .. that charms every sense and makes all thought take wing”

 

 

Jean Dunand, ‘The hunter of gazelles’, lacquer panel designed for the smoking den of the Normandy ocean liner

1935

 

Joan Miró  —  Gourmet Restaurant at the Terrace Plaza Hotel

1948 – Cincinnati, USA

 

 

John William Moore

 

 

‘La Musique’ – Antoine Bourdelle

Musée Bourdelle, Paris

 

 

Abstract ceramic mural by Frank Matranga

Diamond Bar Library, 1977

 

 

Le Corbusier– ‘Demi Relief’

1946

 

 

Horus wall art Egypt

Lessing

 

 

Marcello Fantoni ceramic wall plaque

 

 

Vintage Metal wall sculpture of an armed Warrior

 

 

Decorative Ceramic Flower Wall Sculpture-by Perignem and Paul Vermeire

1965

 

 

Mid Century Vintage Marcello Fantoni Ceramic Pottery Tiles

 

 

Top of a relief depicting Hammurab on a basalt stele standing nearly 2 meters tall

Babylon

 

 

Mural by Rodolfo Bardi

 

 

Mural with Ban Chao & King Yule

Zhong of Kashgar, 73 CE

 

 

Mural de Rodolfo Bardi en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Corvalán

OgreBot-Wikimedia

 

 

Bas Relief #8  —  Janusz Obst

 

 

Paul Belmondo  —  Bas relief terracotta Apollo

1950

 

 

“Phylogenic Continuum”  by Lyndon Pomeroy 

 1966.

 

 

Large bas relief Goddess mural

PDS Bali Stones

 

 

Raul Coronel Miles mural, 1966

eTruth 3

 

Bas relief found at Ariccia, south of Rome, which illustrates the celebration of religious rites in Egypt, identified by the ibises.

1st C AD

 

Roman relief from a sarcophagus depicting a Bacchic procession.

Werner Forman Archive, N.J. Saunders – Capitoline Museum, Rome

 

 

Sergey Karlov stone mosaic panel

 

Rock face relief at Naqsh-e Rustam

 Persian emperor Shapur I (on horseback) capturing Roman emperors Valerian (kneeling) and Philip the Arab (standing)

 

 

‘Spirit of Light’ mural, Pennsylvania

 

 

‘The Saffron Goddess’ (1600 B.C.)

Detail from a Minoan fresco depicting a saffron harvest. She sits supervising the plucking of flowers and the gleaning of stigmas

 

 

“History of Navigation” Art Deco mural by Jean Dupas

SS Normandie

 

 

Thomas Hart Benton-, ‘Instruments of Power’

 

 

Tsolak Shahinyan, Gyumri, Armenia

 

 

Mosaic mural Treetanic bar, Utila Island, Honduras

 

 

Lady in long red gown mosaic panel  —  artist?

 

 

Bruce Onobrakpeya— ‘Eton’ —metal foil on resin on wood

1984

 

 

Anafartalar Bazaar mural by Füreya Koral

 

 

 

Yannis Nanouris-relief wall panel

 

 

Fabric 3D wall art

 

 

John Maltby

 

 

Flows Ceramic wall art  —  Fenella Elms

 

 

Carved walnut Art Deco plaque, Jesus with disciples by William Ehrich

circa 1934 – 1stDibs

 

 

‘The Story of Wool’  bas relief mural by William George Mitchell

1968, West Yorkshire, UK

 

 

William George Mitchell abstract mural

Mitchell Kirby Library — Seva nmb—flickr