What would Easter be without a colorful painted eggs? The smooth oval shape has inspired over the centuries, countless artists and artistic variations of the high-gloss sculpture at the cozy armchair.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
Faberge Eggs
Pure luxury: the precious Faberge eggs were crafted between 1885 and 1917 in the workshop of the jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in St. Petersburg. A total of 50 of these works of art were produced in plants in Egg Form in the course of the years, in the order of the Tsar: glittering Easter gifts for wives and mistresses. Today, they are admired in museums and private collections.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
Humpty Dumpty
The tragic eggs figurine from the centuries-old, well-known British nursery rhyme, falls from a wall, shatters, and cannot be set once all the “horses and men of the king” back together. The Version of Humpty Dumpty in our drawing comes from Lewis Carroll’s children’s book of 1871, “Alice behind the Mirrors”.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
Jeff Koons, Cracked Egg
A raw Egg, the epitome of Fragility – this here, however, the U.S. has created the American artist Jeff Koons, from 1994 to 2006. It’s modern art, from high-gloss polished stainless steel and almost two metres high. Koons created the monumental sculpture “Cracked Egg” in five bright colors. For the artist, the broken Egg is a Symbol of birth.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
The Egg-Emoji
An Egg in a different art-Form: The Fried egg in the pan is a Pictogram from the world of Smileys and Emojis. Chats and Messages without the tongue-in-cheek faces or hearts are hard to imagine. There are now more than 2000 symbols, and there are always new ones. Not the Egg, but the tears laughing Smiley has been named the 2015 of the “Oxford Dictionaries” word of the year.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
Hieronymus Bosch, “The World Court”
Demons, devils, ugly mythical creatures and a strange cephalopod in an Egg populating a triptych painting entitled “The world court” (1485/1505) of the Dutch Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch. Known for its nightmarish depictions. For art lovers there is the “Egg-Monster” vile online: in the Form of a hand-painted resin figure.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
Salvador Dali “metamorphosis of Narcissus”
Salvador Dali’s Painting “metamorphosis of Narcissus” (1937)deals with the Greek Narcissus myth. The beautiful young man who sees his mirror image in the water, is in this dream world are less present than the Transformation into a giant hand holding an egg-shaped Structure, from which a Narcissus is growing. The Egg as a motif is often found in the works of the Spanish surrealist.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
Dali Theatre-Museum
Monumental Egg sculptures adorning the roof of the Theatre-Museu Dali in the Catalan Figueres, Salvador Dalis home town. Here there are paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, holograms, and photos of the artist to see. Everything from the self-planned – as “a great surrealist object, leaving visitors with the feeling that they would have had a bombastic dream”.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
Egg Chair (Design: Arne Jacobsen)
In 1958, created by Arne Jacobsen, a comfortable armchair for the entrance area of the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. The Danish architect and designers conceived not only the legendary “Egg Chair”, he was for the complete construction of a new hotel office interiors is responsible. From a cast of the famous lounge chair is today an established classic, has also inspired other furniture designers.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
Faberge Eggs
Pure luxury: the precious Faberge eggs were crafted between 1885 and 1917 in the workshop of the jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in St. Petersburg. A total of 50 of these works of art were produced in plants in Egg Form in the course of the years, in the order of the Tsar: glittering Easter gifts for wives and mistresses. Today, they are admired in museums and private collections.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
Humpty Dumpty
The tragic eggs figurine from the centuries-old, well-known British nursery rhyme, falls from a wall, shatters, and cannot be set once all the “horses and men of the king” back together. The Version of Humpty Dumpty in our drawing comes from Lewis Carroll’s children’s book of 1871, “Alice behind the Mirrors”.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
Jeff Koons, Cracked Egg
A raw Egg, the epitome of Fragility – this here, however, the U.S. has created the American artist Jeff Koons, from 1994 to 2006. It’s modern art, from high-gloss polished stainless steel and almost two metres high. Koons created the monumental sculpture “Cracked Egg” in five bright colors. For the artist, the broken Egg is a Symbol of birth.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
The Egg-Emoji
An Egg in a different art-Form: The Fried egg in the pan is a Pictogram from the world of Smileys and Emojis. Chats and Messages without the tongue-in-cheek faces or hearts are hard to imagine. There are now more than 2000 symbols, and there are always new ones. Not the Egg, but the tears laughing Smiley has been named the 2015 of the “Oxford Dictionaries” word of the year.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
Hieronymus Bosch, “The World Court”
Demons, devils, ugly mythical creatures and a strange cephalopod in an Egg populating a triptych painting entitled “The world court” (1485/1505) of the Dutch Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch. Known for its nightmarish depictions. For art lovers there is the “Egg-Monster” vile online: in the Form of a hand-painted resin figure.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
Salvador Dali “metamorphosis of Narcissus”
Salvador Dali’s Painting “metamorphosis of Narcissus” (1937)deals with the Greek Narcissus myth. The beautiful young man who sees his mirror image in the water, is in this dream world are less present than the Transformation into a giant hand holding an egg-shaped Structure, from which a Narcissus is growing. The Egg as a motif is often found in the works of the Spanish surrealist.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
Dali Theatre-Museum
Monumental Egg sculptures adorning the roof of the Theatre-Museu Dali in the Catalan Figueres, Salvador Dalis home town. Here there are paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, holograms, and photos of the artist to see. Everything from the self-planned – as “a great surrealist object, leaving visitors with the feeling that they would have had a bombastic dream”.
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The Egg in art and Design immortalized
Egg Chair (Design: Arne Jacobsen)
In 1958, created by Arne Jacobsen, a comfortable armchair for the entrance area of the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. The Danish architect and designers conceived not only the legendary “Egg Chair”, he was for the complete construction of a new hotel office interiors is responsible. From a cast of the famous lounge chair is today an established classic, has also inspired other furniture designers.
Weeks before Easter, the shelves are store in the super markets, lush with colourful, large and small candy eggs, chocolate, Fondant, Marzipan, fruit gum and Dragee eggs filled.
Tasty, sure – but not as nutritious as their “real” colleagues from the Hünerproduktion, the plug in addition to protein, full of vitamins and minerals.
The Egg the perfect shape. And a Symbol of fertility and new life. This has also inspired artists of all disciplines.
Whether in medieval oil Paintings, in the Form of contemporary steel sculptures, or as a humble everyday objects such as lamps, children’s high chairs, free-floating hammock chair or as a colorful plastic furniture for the Shopping in the southwest Chinese city of Chongqing (pictured) – who look closely, will discover the Egg is often the case in art and Design.