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Micro Miniature
Micro miniature (also called micro art or micro sculpture) is a fine art form. Micro miniatures are made with the assistance of microscopes, or eye surgeon tools. It originated at the end of 20th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City holds a micro-miniature basket made by a Pomo Native American artist around 1910. The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, California has a collection of the microminiatures of the Armenian artist Hagop Sandaldjian in their permanent exhibition, ''The Eye of the Needle''. The Museum of Miniatures located in Prague focuses on works of microminiature art. It features the work of Edward Ter Ghazarian, Anatoly Konenko, Nikolai Aldunin among others. The Museum of Microminiatures in St. Petersburg includes micro-miniature work by Vladimir Aniskin of Novosibirsk, Siberia, as well as Nikolai Aldunin of Moscow. Artists * Nikolai Aldunin * Vladimir Aniskin * Rafik Badalyan * Anton Chekhov * Edward Kazarian * Anatoly Kone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Microminiatures
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from the conservation and documentation of their collection, serving researchers and specialists, to catering to the general public. The goal of serving researchers is not only scientific, but intended to serve the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willard Wigan
Willard Wigan, (born June 1957) is a British sculptor from Ashmore Park Estate, Wednesfield, England, the son of Jamaican immigrants, who makes micro miniature sculptures. His sculptures are typically placed in the eye of a needle or on the head of a pin. A single sculpture can be as small as 0.005 mm (0.0002 in). Life and work As a child with dyslexia and Asperger syndrome, neither of which were diagnosed until adulthood, Willard Wigan was ridiculed in class by his primary school teachers for not learning to read. Wigan attributes his early drive in sculpting, which began at the age of five, to his need to escape from the derision of teachers and classmates. He wanted to show the world that nothing did not exist, deducing that if people were unable to view his work, then they would not be in any position to criticise it. Wigan has since aimed to make even smaller artworks, visible only with a microscope. In July 2007 he was made an MBE. On 3 February 2016 Wigan was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Short
Graham Short, (born 4 July 1946) is a micro-artist, living and working in Birmingham, England. In 2012 his nine-month project 'Cutting Edge' showing the words "Nothing is Impossible" engraved along the sharp edge of a Wilkinson Sword razor blade attracted attention from the media, which led to him appearing in news features. During the same year he engraved a minuscule portrait of the Queen on a speck of gold inserted into the eye of a needle to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Career After leaving school at the age of 15 with no qualifications, he signed up to a six-year apprenticeship at a stationery engraving company in Birmingham. He learned the art of copper-plate and steel die engraving for the stationery trade - producing embossed letterheads, business cards and wedding invitations. When his apprenticeship had ended he started his own one-man business in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter where he spent his career creating stationery for banks, royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagop Sandaldjian
Hagop Sandaldjian (1931–1990Joshua Tompkins"Honey I Shrunk the Art" '' Los Angeles Magazine'', May 1997, p.24.) was an Egyptian-born Armenian American musician and microminiature sculptor, best known for his tiny art pieces, currently displayed at the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California. Sandaldjian's creations included a carving of Mount Ararat on a grain of rice; a crucifix in which a minute golden figure of Jesus hangs upon a cross made from a bisected strand of Sandaldjian's own hair; and recreations of Disney figures (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or Mickey Mouse, for example) or historical figures (such as Napoleon or Pope John Paul II) presented in the eye or on the tip of a needle. Sandaldjian was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and went to the Soviet Union to study music in Yerevan, Armenia and in Moscow. After graduating from the Ippolitov-Ivanov Music College in 1955, he became a violinist, and taught music at a conservatory in Yerevan. In the earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mallikarjuna Reddy
Mallikarjuna Reddy (born 24 August 1981) is a miniature sculptor, Guinness World Record Holder, and the creator of the world's smallest monolithic sculptures. He constructed 18 sculptures on a single rice grain, without using magnification lenses. Life and work Mallikarjuna Reddy was born to Changalaraya Reddy a landlord in Thoppanahalli, a village in Bangarpet, Kolar district, Karnataka, India. He taught himself caricature around the age of nine but later, in 2000, moved to Bangalore to study Biotechnology at the Reddy Jana Sangha College. Whilst there he developed his interest in working with miniatures and began to create microscopic sculptures. In 2001, he exhibited at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath. He gained publicity from journalist and photographer Manjunath Kiran, but remained an amateur. In February 2005 he was recognized as the Guinness World Record Holder after creating a 28-link chain on a single toothpick. The previous record of 17 links had been establis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafik Badalyan
Rafik Badalyan (; born October 24, 1943, in Yerevan) is an Armenian sculptor, painter, and physico-mathematician. Biography Badalyan was born on October 24, 1943, in Yerevan in a military family. He studied at secondary school after Stalin (nowadays-after Vahan Teryan). Rafik entered Yerevan State University in 1962. He studied in physico-mathematical department. During studies he went to serve in Soviet Army. Finishing his service Rafik Badalyan continued his education and graduated from university in 1968. He worked in Polymer Research Institute during Soviet Union. In 1970 he was recalled to serve in the army but this time as an officer. He was trained as an officer in Novosibirsk and Gomel. In 1973 he was demobilized and returned to his previous job. In 1976 he worked in the lab of integral and hybrid microcircuits and sensors in Abovyan. In 1978 he studied in Institute of Electronic Technology in Moscow where received his PhD in Physics. Ha wrote about 50 research papers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Aniskin
Vladimir Aniskin (born 15 December 1973) is a Russian miniature sculptor and Senior Researcher at the ITAM SB RAS, Guinness World Record Holder. Biography Vladimir Aniskin was born in Novosibirsk in 1973. He graduated from Novosibirsk State University Novosibirsk State University is a public research university located in Novosibirsk, Russia. The university was founded in 1958, on the principles of integration of education and science, early involvement of students with research activities an ... with a red diploma. Since 1999, Vladimir Aniskin became an employee of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the SB RAS (ITAM SB RAS). In 2004, he defended his Ph.D. dissertation. In 2013, scientist defended his doctoral dissertation. Artworks The artist has been interested in microminiature since 1998. In 2006, he created a New Year tree with a height of 550 microns, placing it on a cut of poppy seeds; in 2009, Aniskin made a composition "Yolka", consisting of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Aldunin
Nikolai Aldunin (born September 1, 1956) is a Russian artist noted for his microscopic art described as "masterpieces" and "pioneering work", "famous in Russia and around the world". His work includes a T-34 tank a fraction of the size of an apple seed and composed of more than 200 pieces, made of pure gold and described as "perfect copy of a real vehicle"; a gold saddle and horseshoes for a flea; and a camel train in the eye of a needle. He has motivated the creation of a museum for miniatures in Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million .... References External links Nikolai Aldunin at Peoples.ruExample at the T-34 History Museum 1956 births Living people 20th-century Russian sculptors 20th-century Russian male artists 21st-century Russian sculptors 21st-centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Miniatures In Prague
The Museum on Miniatures ( cs, Muzeum miniatur) in Prague features a number of miniature works of art, some of them needing to be viewed with a microscope or magnifying device. See also * List of museums in Prague * Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ... * Museums References {{CzechRepublic-museum-stub Museums in Prague Museums established in 1998 1998 establishments in the Czech Republic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culver City, California
Culver City is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,779. Founded in 1917 as a "whites only" sundown town, it is now an ethnically diverse city with what was called the "third-most diverse school district in California" in 2020. In the 1920s, the city became a center for film and later television production, best known as the home of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. From 1932 to 1986, it was the headquarters for the Hughes Aircraft Company. National Public Radio West and Sony Pictures Entertainment have headquarters in the city. The city was named after its founder, Harry Culver. It is mostly surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, but also shares a border with the unincorporated area of Ladera Heights. Over the years, it has annexed more than 40 pieces of adjoining land and now comprises about . History Early history Archaeological evidence suggests a human presence in the area of present-day Culver City since a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
