We have all probably heard someone say they are looking for a painting to hang above their mantle, in their hallway, or in their bedroom. What we don’t often hear is that they are looking for a painting to stand, on say, the tip of a pin.
Willard Wigan’s “Lloyd's of London on the Head of a Pin”
This photo from an article by Michael Seo in Popular Mechanics shows Willard Wigan’s “Lloyd’s of London on the Head of a Pin.”
Popular Mechanics comments, “This model is actually smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. Wigan carves his pieces under a microscope, using grains of sand as building material and fibers, spider webs and hairs as tools. However, because the tiniest of vibrations would destroy a sculpture, Wigan works in between his heartbeats while holding his breath —lest he accidentally inhale his own work.”
NanoArt is a genre born of the union of science (nano is a scientific term meaning extremely small – microscopic) and art.
Some NanoArt images are very recognizable:
Nano PacMan Image: Elisabetta Comini, University of Brescia, Italy
Nano PacMan – Scanning electron microscope image of a copper oxide cluster, 3.5 microns in diameter, prepared by evaporation and condensation over an alumina substrate.
Some are less recognizable:
Hair in Vitro by Polona Tratnik
Scale is one of the personal criteria for choosing art. The space the creation is going into determines the scale of the piece, yet at the same time the scale of the piece simultaneously shapes the space it is going into.
Size is one of the elements that, when woven together with colour, theme and material, determines the feelings the creation will project. The same work of a different size could project a very contrasting feel. So, too, would the same work in a different space. Imagine one painting first as the focus of a small room and then as a focal point in a large room with high ceilings.
Zatista has developed a feature that allows you to do just that…to imagine the painting in various dimensions and environments:
Although not NanoArt, which may be an advantage in that you can actually see them, Zatista has some incredible pieces that are small in scale:
Spinnakers Up by Bernard Victor on Zatista.com
Pages From the Book of Time by Cheryl Frey on Zatista.com
A Beach in South California by Taeil Kim on Zatista.com
Collect art that you love on Zatista.com today!
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