Micro miniature (also called micro art or micro sculpture) is a fine art form. Micro miniatures are made with the assistance of

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s, or eye surgeon tools. It originated at the end of 20th century. The

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in New York City holds a micro-miniature basket made by a

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Native American artist around 1910. The

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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 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 ...

* Rafik Badalyan * Anton Chekhov * Edward Kazarian * Anatoly Konenko *

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 lens ...

* Nikolay Savidovhttps://www.afisha.ru/exhibition/nikolay-savidov-chudesa-v-igolnom-ushke-241592/ *

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 ...

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 bla ...

* Gunasekaran Sundarraj * Nicolaï Syadristy * Edward Ter-Ghazarian *

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 ...

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