The Unswept Floor Artist

He was from pergamon modern day bergama in ancient turkey.

The unswept floor artist. It is now kept at lahore museum lahore. Design by karina mcleod. The unswept floor dunedin public art gallery 12 march 19 june 2016. Herakleitos makes the unswept floor mosaic variant of a 2nd century bc painting by sosos of pergamon.

We know his two famous mosaics. Pliny mentions this trompe l oeil optical illusion in his natural history xxxvi 184. The unswept floor and doves drinking from a bowl. International visiting artist residency dunedin public art gallery dunedin school of art new zealand 2016.

Mosaic artist helen bodycomb used the idea to make an unswept floor mosaic for a fresh food market in camberwell australia. 150 100 bc is one of the few ancient mosaic artists ever named. It is now kept at the musei vaticani in rome. Sosus of pergamon c.

This depicts the floor of a room covered with the remains of a feast including fish fruit and other fragments of food. Depicting food scraps as though strewn across a floor this more modern interpretation of the unswept floor was commissioned by the city of boroondara in. As described by pliny it is a floor mosaic which depicted the leftovers of a meal on a floor. The mosaic was found in 1833 during construction work in the vineyard of achille lupi near the bastione di sangallo porta ardeatina see a rome art.

The artist has created a floor which seems to be covered with the debris of a banquet the remains that would normally be swept away. The decorative theme is that known as asàrotos òikos or the unswept floor created in the second century b c. By sosos of pergamon and here by the artist heraclitus who has signed his name. The second century bce greek mosaicist sosus of pergamon is attributed as having been the author of this genre that became popular across the roman empire.

The unswept floor that was shown in the photograph on wikimedia commons is actually a small part of a much larger mosaic as this tiny picture of the surviving portion of the mosaic illustrates. These works highlight her strong interest in feminism and the role and depiction of women in society and art history. The unswept floor poster publication with text by curator lucy hammonds. A mosaic from hadrian s villa now in the capitoline museums depicts a group of doves on a round bowl.

Sosos laid at pergamon what is called the asarotos oikos or unswept room because on the pavement was represented. Here the concept is reworked with modern food items and the suggestion of items which have been discarded is removed bodycomb s rendition is more of a still life beautifully worked and brilliantly executed but. One can identify. The unswept floor is a genre of mosaic also known as asarotos œcos or asaratos oikos.

The unswept floor is a now lost mosaic by the 2nd century bc mosaicist sosus of pergamon. Doves drinking from a bowl.