The Unswept Floor Artist

We know his two famous mosaics.

The unswept floor artist.

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 unswept floor dunedin public art gallery 12 march 19 june 2016. 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 unswept floor includes a survey of davis s work from the past decade bringing together a series of films drawings prints and multiples.

It is now kept at the musei vaticani in rome. 2nd or 3rd century standing buddha from gandhara is made. International visiting artist residency dunedin public art gallery dunedin school of art new zealand 2016. The unswept floor poster publication with text by curator lucy hammonds.

He was from pergamon modern day bergama in ancient turkey. Pliny mentions this trompe l oeil optical illusion in his natural history xxxvi 184. The unswept floor is a now lost mosaic by the 2nd century bc mosaicist sosus of pergamon. By sosos of pergamon and here by the artist heraclitus who has signed his name.

Design by karina mcleod. The unswept floor and doves drinking from a bowl. Sosus of pergamon c. Doves drinking from a bowl.

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. One can identify. The unswept floor is a genre of mosaic also known as asarotos œcos or asaratos oikos. 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.

Mosaic artist helen bodycomb used the idea to make an unswept floor mosaic for a fresh food market in camberwell australia. 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. As in today s world there were then popular patterns to put on walls and floors.

The decorative theme is that known as asàrotos òikos or the unswept floor created in the second century b c. These works highlight her strong interest in feminism and the role and depiction of women in society and art history. It is now kept at lahore museum lahore. 150 100 bc is one of the few ancient mosaic artists ever named.

Sosos laid at pergamon what is called the asarotos oikos or unswept room because on the pavement was represented. This depicts the floor of a room covered with the remains of a feast including fish fruit and other fragments of food.