The Unswept Floor Artist

By sosos of pergamon and here by the artist heraclitus who has signed his name.

The unswept floor artist.

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 includes a survey of davis s work from the past decade bringing together a series of films drawings prints and multiples. One can identify. The decorative theme is that known as asàrotos òikos or the unswept floor created in the second century b c.

As in today s world there were then popular patterns to put on walls and floors. 2nd or 3rd century standing buddha from gandhara is made. The unswept floor poster publication with text by curator lucy hammonds. The unswept floor dunedin public art gallery 12 march 19 june 2016.

It is now kept at the musei vaticani in rome. The unswept floor is a now lost mosaic by the 2nd century bc mosaicist sosus of pergamon. The unswept floor is a genre of mosaic also known as asarotos œcos or asaratos oikos. Sosus of pergamon c.

A mosaic from hadrian s villa now in the capitoline museums depicts a group of doves on a round bowl. 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. This depicts the floor of a room covered with the remains of a feast including fish fruit and other fragments of food.

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. 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. The unswept floor and doves drinking from a bowl. Design by karina mcleod.

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. 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. Doves drinking from a bowl. Herakleitos makes the unswept floor mosaic variant of a 2nd century bc painting by sosos of pergamon.

International visiting artist residency dunedin public art gallery dunedin school of art new zealand 2016. Sosos laid at pergamon what is called the asarotos oikos or unswept room because on the pavement was represented. Mosaic artist helen bodycomb used the idea to make an unswept floor mosaic for a fresh food market in camberwell australia. He was from pergamon modern day bergama in ancient turkey.

Pliny mentions this trompe l oeil optical illusion in his natural history xxxvi 184. It is now kept at lahore museum lahore.