Albanian artist Saimir Strati created some of the most original and impressive mosaics in the world.
"I look at different things that attract my attention and think of turning them into mosaics."
"I was especially inspired when I first visited the ruins of the ancient town of Apollonia. There I saw leftovers of antique mosaics. I find it really fascinating that some buildings only last about one hundred years, while some mosaics can resist time for more than 3000 years. They are just like skeletons of dinosaurs."
Nail Mosaic - Leonardo Da Vinci
In 2006, Saimir Strati re-created the self portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci using nearly 400 kilos of industrial nails over a 6 1/2 x 13 feet surface. The technique resembles digital photography, in that each nail represents a pixel.
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It took 500,000 nails and 24 days to complete. This nail mosaic won Saimir Strati his first Guinness Record, on September 4, 2006, as the World's Largest Nail Mosaic.
Toothpick Mosaic - Reinless Spirit
On July 26 2007, Strati create the image of a horse made out of 1.5 million toothpicks over a 4x2m surface.
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Strati used different varieties of wood, and different toothpick lengths, to give his artwork depth.
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It took 13 hours a day, for 40 days, to finish this 8m2 (86.11 sq. feet) artwork.
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The work was dedicated to Antonio Gaudi, and was confirmed on September 4, 2007 as the World's Largest Toothpick Mosaic.
Cork Mosaic - Mediterraneana
In August 2008, Strati used 229,764 corks of various shapes and sizes over a surface of 12.94m x7.10m, or 91.87m2 to create “Romeo with a crown of grapes playing the guitar while dancing with the sea and the sun”, a homage to life around the Mediterranean.
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Using the same technique people used to create mosaics 2,000 years ago, Saimir Strati worked 14 hours a day, for 28 days.
Paint Brush Mosaic - Michael Jackson
In October 2009, Strati created a giant mosaic of Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, using paint brushes. The installation was presented on the side of a truck, in Durres, 40 km from Albania’s capital city, Tirana.
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Working 16 hours a day, for 28 days, Strati used 230,000 different color paint brushes to create the masterpiece that earned him his fourth Guinness Record, for the World’s Biggest Paint Brush Mosaic.
Screw Mosaic - Artists Banknote
In November 2010, Strati created The Largest Screw Mosaic which he dedicated to the Artists all over the World.
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He created this bank note because he explains that Artist have not they own money and because he thinks that for the real Artists the money is not so important they are blind towards it, that's way he put it the Portrait of Hommer because he was blind and could not see.
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The mosaic has over 350,000 industrial screws, measures 490 x 240 cm and features a portrait of Greek poet Homer in the middle of a giant banknote, entitled “currency of the soul”. Saimir Strati Finish these Art Piece in two weeks.
Coffee Beans Mosaic - One World, One Family, One Coffee
In September 4 2008, Saimir Strati got his 6 Guinness World Record for The Largest Coffee bean Mosaic in the World.
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In these mosaic were 5 Characters Witch Represented each a Continent. South America with samba dancer, North America with a cowboy, Asia with a Chinese girl playing tambourine, Europe with a old man that plays a firzamonik, and Africa with an African boy who plays tribal music. The objective of Strati’s work is to inspire of sense of unit across the world.
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Strati painstakingly working on his one million coffee beans mosaic in Tirana, Albania. His unique artwork measure 25m2 and weigh 140 kilograms.
Check his website: http://mosaicart-sast.com/index.html
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Impressive Mosaics of Saimir Strati
Amazing Mosaic Artworks
Mosaic is the art of creating patterns and images from small pieces of a certain material. Check these amazing mosaic artworks made of unusual materials.
Virgin Mary Easter Eggs by Oksana Mas
Ukrainian artist Oksana Mas created this Virgin Mary mosaic portrait using 15,000 painted Easter Eggs in Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv.
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The giant mosaic weighs 2.5 tons and is made out of 15,000 wooden Easter Eggs, measures 7×7 meters.
Source: odditycentral
Jesus Push Pins Portrait by Rob Surette
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Rob Surette created this mind-blowing portrait of Jesus Christ made out of 24,790 colored push pins. The amazing work of art measures 5.5 feet x 4 feet and worth $250,000. He spent six months to finish on this project, working on it for approximately one hour every day, seven days a week.
Source: theblaze
Van Gogh Polo Shirts
The giant reproduction of Vincent Van Gogh’s self-portrait, made out of polo shirts, is on display in the lobby of the Marunouchi Building, near Tokyo Station as a part of a campaign by Onward Kashiyama Co, a Tokyo-based apparel maker, to use painting colors into shirt designs.
The amazing work of art measures 10 x 10 meters and was created using 2070 polo shirts of 24 different colors.
Source: nipponnews
Leila Khaled Lipsticks Portrait by Amer Shomali
Palestinian artist Amer Shomali created a unique portrait of Leila Khaled, a woman revolutionary holding an AK-47 and wearing a kaffiyeh, made of 3,500 lipsticks of 14 different colors.
Source: odditycentral
Jimi Hendrix Guitar Picks by Ed Chapman
Artist Ed Chapman created a mosaic of the greatest electric guitarist in history, Jimi Hendrix, made from more than 5000 Fender guitar picks/plectrums, a brand commonly associated with Hendrix, as he often played their guitars at the peak of his career.
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It was auctioned for £23,000 raising money at the Cancer Research UK’s Sound & Vision event at London's Abbey Road Studios.
Source: bloodyloud
Jimi Hendrix Playing Cards by David Alvarez
Leavenworth artist and student David Alvarez creates this Jimi Hendrix portrait using more than 8,500 Bicycle playing cards. The 25 feet tall portrait taken from the album "Crash Landing".
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Source & Images: edition.cnn.com
He first divided the picture into parts and map out where the colored playing cards should go. Then painstakingly placing each card on its right position, on a Styrofoam core board, with double-sided tape. It took him 21 hours to finish the project.
Largest Coffee Bean Mosaic by Arkady Kim
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Russian artist Arkady Kim and his 5 assistants spent 12 days working on this impressive coffee bean mosaic, entitled “The Awakening” set up in Gorky Park, Moscow.
This giant mosaic measures nearly 30 square meters, and made of 1 million coffee beans, weighing 180 kg (397 pounds) and was acknowledged as a new world record for the largest coffee bean mosaic by Russia’s Book of Records, beating the previous title holder.. artist Saimir Strati (We have covered his amazing mosaic art in the previous post).
Source: odditycentral
Muhammad Ali Punching Bags by Michael Kalish
Los Angeles-based artist Michael Kalish made a 22-foot high installation of Mohammad Ali’s portrait using 6.5 miles stainless steel cable, 1300 punching bags, and 2500 pounds of aluminum pipe.
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The project took three whole years to finish and Muhammad Ali hang the final bag at the ceremony on LA’s Nokia Plaza.
You can only see his portrait from one side, not from any other angles.
Source: planetoddity
Beagle Sprinkles by Joel Brochu
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Canadian fine arts student Joel Brochu creates a 4 feet by 1 ½ foot image of a beagle getting a bath made of sprinkles (tiny colored balls of compressed sugar that are used in the decoration of confectioner’s items).
He used a unique combination of MS Paint and a software tool designed by his friend to break the image down into pixels. Then he used a pair of jewelry tweezers to place the sprinkles, one at a time, on a board with double-sided tape and glue.
A total of 221,184 sprinkles in six different colors were used and it took eight months to complete the project.
Source: odditycentral
Wine Corks Mosaic by Scott Gundersen
Chicago-based artist Scott Gundersen used 9,217 wine corks to create this detailed portrait titled 'Grace' over the course of 200 hours.
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It is measures 66″ X 96″ and took over 50 hours to create.
Gundersen also made another piece titled 'Trisha' made of 3,621 recycled wine corks.
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First he sketches out a drawing based on a photograph he takes of his subject. He collects the corks, then arranges them by tone and later fills in the different tones for the shading of his portraits.
Source: athenna
Virgin Mary Easter Eggs by Oksana Mas
Ukrainian artist Oksana Mas created this Virgin Mary mosaic portrait using 15,000 painted Easter Eggs in Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv.
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[link]The giant mosaic weighs 2.5 tons and is made out of 15,000 wooden Easter Eggs, measures 7×7 meters.
Source: odditycentral
Jesus Push Pins Portrait by Rob Surette
[link]Rob Surette created this mind-blowing portrait of Jesus Christ made out of 24,790 colored push pins. The amazing work of art measures 5.5 feet x 4 feet and worth $250,000. He spent six months to finish on this project, working on it for approximately one hour every day, seven days a week.
Source: theblaze
Van Gogh Polo Shirts
The giant reproduction of Vincent Van Gogh’s self-portrait, made out of polo shirts, is on display in the lobby of the Marunouchi Building, near Tokyo Station as a part of a campaign by Onward Kashiyama Co, a Tokyo-based apparel maker, to use painting colors into shirt designs.
The amazing work of art measures 10 x 10 meters and was created using 2070 polo shirts of 24 different colors.
Source: nipponnews
Leila Khaled Lipsticks Portrait by Amer Shomali
Palestinian artist Amer Shomali created a unique portrait of Leila Khaled, a woman revolutionary holding an AK-47 and wearing a kaffiyeh, made of 3,500 lipsticks of 14 different colors.
Source: odditycentral
Jimi Hendrix Guitar Picks by Ed Chapman
Artist Ed Chapman created a mosaic of the greatest electric guitarist in history, Jimi Hendrix, made from more than 5000 Fender guitar picks/plectrums, a brand commonly associated with Hendrix, as he often played their guitars at the peak of his career.
[link]It was auctioned for £23,000 raising money at the Cancer Research UK’s Sound & Vision event at London's Abbey Road Studios.
Source: bloodyloud
Jimi Hendrix Playing Cards by David Alvarez
Leavenworth artist and student David Alvarez creates this Jimi Hendrix portrait using more than 8,500 Bicycle playing cards. The 25 feet tall portrait taken from the album "Crash Landing".
[link]Source & Images: edition.cnn.com
He first divided the picture into parts and map out where the colored playing cards should go. Then painstakingly placing each card on its right position, on a Styrofoam core board, with double-sided tape. It took him 21 hours to finish the project.
Largest Coffee Bean Mosaic by Arkady Kim
[link]Russian artist Arkady Kim and his 5 assistants spent 12 days working on this impressive coffee bean mosaic, entitled “The Awakening” set up in Gorky Park, Moscow.
This giant mosaic measures nearly 30 square meters, and made of 1 million coffee beans, weighing 180 kg (397 pounds) and was acknowledged as a new world record for the largest coffee bean mosaic by Russia’s Book of Records, beating the previous title holder.. artist Saimir Strati (We have covered his amazing mosaic art in the previous post).
Source: odditycentral
Muhammad Ali Punching Bags by Michael Kalish
Los Angeles-based artist Michael Kalish made a 22-foot high installation of Mohammad Ali’s portrait using 6.5 miles stainless steel cable, 1300 punching bags, and 2500 pounds of aluminum pipe.
[link]The project took three whole years to finish and Muhammad Ali hang the final bag at the ceremony on LA’s Nokia Plaza.
You can only see his portrait from one side, not from any other angles.
Source: planetoddity
Beagle Sprinkles by Joel Brochu
[link]Canadian fine arts student Joel Brochu creates a 4 feet by 1 ½ foot image of a beagle getting a bath made of sprinkles (tiny colored balls of compressed sugar that are used in the decoration of confectioner’s items).
He used a unique combination of MS Paint and a software tool designed by his friend to break the image down into pixels. Then he used a pair of jewelry tweezers to place the sprinkles, one at a time, on a board with double-sided tape and glue.
A total of 221,184 sprinkles in six different colors were used and it took eight months to complete the project.
Source: odditycentral
Wine Corks Mosaic by Scott Gundersen
Chicago-based artist Scott Gundersen used 9,217 wine corks to create this detailed portrait titled 'Grace' over the course of 200 hours.
[link]It is measures 66″ X 96″ and took over 50 hours to create.
Gundersen also made another piece titled 'Trisha' made of 3,621 recycled wine corks.
[link]First he sketches out a drawing based on a photograph he takes of his subject. He collects the corks, then arranges them by tone and later fills in the different tones for the shading of his portraits.
Source: athenna
