Micro miniature explained

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.[1]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City holds a micro-miniature basket made by a Pomo Native American artist around 1910.[2]

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.[3] [4]

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.[5]

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

Further reading

Ermann, Lynn. They have jobs on the slide: Microscopic art, The Washington Post, February 14, 1999

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Определение из диссертации Станислава Коненко "Художественная микроминиатюра как средство построения микрокосма культуры".
  2. Web site: Micro-miniature one-rod coiled basket . Metropolitan Museum of Art . 30 June 2022.
  3. Web site: The Eye of the Needle: The Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaldjian . Museum of Jurassic Technology . 30 June 2022.
  4. Book: Weschler . Lawrence . Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder . 2013 . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group . New York . 9780307833983 . 59–60 . 30 June 2022.
  5. Web site: Small is beautiful: Prague museum focuses on micro miniature art . Prague Radio International . 30 June 2022.
  6. News: Keyes . Bob . Portland auction of tiny artwork tests idea that less is more . 30 June 2022 . Press Herald . 27 April 2015.
  7. News: McDonnell . Sharon . The men who shoe fleas . 30 June 2022 . BBC . 7 April 2017.
  8. https://www.afisha.ru/exhibition/nikolay-savidov-chudesa-v-igolnom-ushke-241592/
  9. House . Arthur . A wacky Wunderkammer in Los Angeles . Apollo Magazine of International Art . 25 February 2019 . 30 June 2022.
  10. News: Gerald . Olympia Shilpa . The God of small things . 7 July 2022 . The Hindu . 6 April 2012.
  11. Web site: Nicolaï Syadristy's Micro Miniature Museum Kyiv, Ukraine . Atlas Obscura . 30 June 2022.
  12. News: Witt . Howard . Art's Minute Man . 30 June 2022 . Chicago Tribune . 31 July 1993.
  13. News: The man who makes millions from miniature art . 30 June 2022 . Evening Standard . 10 April 2012.