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Hey everybody. Welcome to the weekend!
I've been told there are some very high-end marquetry pieces that were made to represent a painting, and when placed side by side you can hardly tell the difference between the two. I've searched a good deal but I can't find any examples of this.
Does anyone have a link that shows a marquetry piece beside the painting it was meant to reproduce? I would love to see it! Thanks.
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I've done marquetry. I don't think you can make a piece of marquetry look like a painted picture. There's so much you can do with paint, such as gradually transition between colors that you just can't do with marquetry. You'd have to have a bunch of colors of veneer and put "lines" of slightly different colors next to each other to make it look like a color transition. And even then, if you looked closely, you'd see the lines.
Another problem would be a round shiny object. In life and in painting you would have an area of "shine" that tapered off as you went away from the major area of illumination. That's very difficult to duplicate in marquetry.
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Maybe abstract art that looks like junk already. Or modern welded sculpture from the junk pile. The guy who does it with nails looks very good.
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This was posted on another forum where the OP posted the same question. It is not junk and looks like a painted picture. It is a portrait of Morgan Freeman from a YouTube video. I think it is amazing.
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Larry's example is sound. There is no difference between using this technique to build a quality image than any other technique that assembles "pixels" to create that image. It's the level of effort that makes for the end result. Heck, I just saw a short reel on IG where someone makes extraordinary images using....dice...the game piece kind. (And another one that used colored clay "middle finger gestures" to make a portrait of their grandmother...with her standing next to it. Amazing visual) Now to be fair, viewing distance matters but our eyes are amazing instruments that take what the artist did to assemble an image and interpret it in special ways. So yes, marquetry can be used to create images that when viewed at the proper distance they can rival painted pictures.
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pointillism and abstract styles come to mind.
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I posted on another forum regarding Dr Seri Robinson's (Oregon State University, Northern Spalting) research on spalting, and some of the intarsia from ancient Germany/Tyrolia (if i recall correctly). Different woods with different spores create different colors that endure through the ages. Scroll down near the bottom of this article for a few vibrant examples: Exquisite Rot: Spalted Wood and the Lost Art of Intarsia — The Public Domain Review Picture of spalted wood below.
Amazing stuff with no dyes.
Last edited by Earl McLain; 08-10-2024 at 2:33 PM.
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