I know of two parallel methods to make the walls and paintings I'm about to show you.
These walls are fascinating, all over Italy via Austria to Eastern Europe, and 'trompe l'oeil' or 'Art Deco' spring into mind (but the technique is much older than that).
Ok. Sgrafitto: say you want to decorate a wall. You start with a black layer of plaster, white layer on top and before it's all dried (and it dries in 24 hours) you scratch your image, which is then seen in black because of the underlying black layer.
Or: white plaster, you scratch your image and fill the lines with black paint. That's what you often see in Art Deco sgrafitto. I think that's the way all the 'tiles' were made. Now they are trompe l'oeils if there ever were ones!
You see them on the first pictures. We had to feel each and every one of them to convince ourselves they were flat, not three dimensional. They are flat!
Eastern Europe is a sgrafitto lovers treasure trove. You see it everywhere. You need a bit of a dry clime for it because it washes away easily. That's why we don't have much of it in Holland ;)
These photos were made in Poland and the Czech Republic. The 'colourful' picture is taken inside the major postoffice in Prague and we weren't alllowed to take pictures there so there's only this one, in a right Art Deco temple.
The last one is a bit of a maverick. I included because I liked it. Someone made something special out of a drainpipe.
I love those details!
These walls are fascinating, all over Italy via Austria to Eastern Europe, and 'trompe l'oeil' or 'Art Deco' spring into mind (but the technique is much older than that).
Ok. Sgrafitto: say you want to decorate a wall. You start with a black layer of plaster, white layer on top and before it's all dried (and it dries in 24 hours) you scratch your image, which is then seen in black because of the underlying black layer.
Or: white plaster, you scratch your image and fill the lines with black paint. That's what you often see in Art Deco sgrafitto. I think that's the way all the 'tiles' were made. Now they are trompe l'oeils if there ever were ones!
You see them on the first pictures. We had to feel each and every one of them to convince ourselves they were flat, not three dimensional. They are flat!
Eastern Europe is a sgrafitto lovers treasure trove. You see it everywhere. You need a bit of a dry clime for it because it washes away easily. That's why we don't have much of it in Holland ;)
These photos were made in Poland and the Czech Republic. The 'colourful' picture is taken inside the major postoffice in Prague and we weren't alllowed to take pictures there so there's only this one, in a right Art Deco temple.
The last one is a bit of a maverick. I included because I liked it. Someone made something special out of a drainpipe.
I love those details!
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