Traditional Painting vs new Iris Mosaic Genre
June 30, 2017

When I talk about traditional paintings or just painting  I mean those which are flat and use paints, ink, watercolor, pencil, pastels or other media to illustrate an image, picture, scenery, collage  in 2 dimension array. These include artworks by such luminaries as Michaelangelo, Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet andd so on to the works of unknown artists. Then we offer another kind of painting, one we've called as Iris Mosaic.  How are the two different:?

1. Composition and structure.
Traditional painting draws, paints' sketches  images on a a base - mostly canvas using paint, chalk, watercolor or other media. The finished product is flat.     Iris Mosaic is a new genre of pictures on frames that are a combination of art painted surfaces on top of which a scuptural piece of mosaic inlay is placed. In some cases it is multiple pieces of the smaller mosaic sculpture.  Objectivly what distinguishes the two is that painting is flat while iris mosaic has multiple layers or  hasa a 3 dimensional look. 

2. History
There is no comparison here - Traditional Painting has been around forever and has a made countless artists famous.  And rich - that is if they were recognized in their lifetime.  Well at least their paintings are worth a huge fortune now. Iris Mosaic is a term nobody has heard of - except the few of us and you who's reading this. But if we can grow to even just a very timy fraction of where the traditional painting is - we shall have felt fulfilled..

3. Not only is the history of Painting long,, wide and deep, this industry (if it can be called that) has a huge base of current participants, market, assets,  societies, museums , libraries and others not to mention the painters themselves. It has become a huge economic sector if only because painting have beome a repossitory for money.  Just take a look at the list below.
 

More than a pretty picture To serious collectors, art is more than just something to hang on the walls. It's an investment that can fetch astronomical prices at auction. Last year, a painting by Pablo Picasso set a world record by going under the gavel for nearly $180 million. But it's not the first time a buyer has shelled out more than $100 million. Read on for 7 paintings that would break the bank for all but the super-rich. Read more: http://www.bankrate.com/finance/investing/paintings-that-sold-for-over-100m-1.aspx#ixzz4mMBoh0zH Follow us: @Bankrate on Twitter | Bankrate on Facebook   More than a pretty picture To serious collectors, art is more than just something to hang on the walls. It's an investment that can fetch astronomical prices at auction. Last year, a painting by Pablo Picasso set a world record by going under the gavel for nearly $180 million. But it's not the first time a buyer has shelled out more than $100 million. Read on for 7 paintings that would break the bank for all but the super-rich. Read more: http://www.bankrate.com/finance/investing/paintings-that-sold-for-over-100m-1.aspx#ixzz4mMBoh0zH Follow us: @Bankrate on Twitter | Bankrate on Facebook   More than a pretty picture To serious collectors, art is more than just something to hang on the walls. It's an investment that can fetch astronomical prices at auction. Last year, a painting by Pablo Picasso set a world record by going under the gavel for nearly $180 million. But it's not the first time a buyer has shelled out more than $100 million. Read on for 7 paintings that would break the bank for all but the super-rich. Read more: http://www.bankrate.com/finance/investing/paintings-that-sold-for-over-100m-1.aspx#ixzz4mMBoh0zH Follow us: @Bankrate on Twitter | Bankrate on Facebook   7 Paintings that sold for more than $100M quoted from bankrate.com (click here to go to site) To serious collectors, art is more than just something to hang on the walls. It's an investment that can fetch astronomical prices at auction. Last year, a painting by Pablo Picasso set a world record by going under the gavel for nearly $180 million. But it's not the first time a buyer has shelled out more than $100 million. Read on for 7 paintings that would break the bank for all but the super-rich.
Three Studies of Lucian Freud By Francis Bacon sold for $142.4M in 2013	Les Femmes d'Alger by Picasso sold for $179.4M in 2015	Silver Car Crash  by Andy Warhol sold for $104.5 M  2013

The Scream by Munch sold for $119.9M in 2012

Nu Couche by Amedeo Modigliani sold for $170.4M in 2015

Boy with a Pipe by Picasso sold for $104M in 2005

Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Picasso sold for $106.5M in 2010

This could only mean the rich are getting ever richer. The poor can't even afford to buy a poor artist's work. Unless we learn to help ourselves.  Why don't we produce beautiful artwork that we people in Cebu of modest means can afford to buy. And while we do so let us be clever about it. I meean we keep a library and keep track of every signle piece ofartwork we make and trade. In the long run some of those will gain recognition and their value can go up too. The thing that actually pushed the value of the works above is not so much the work put into it - but the history they carry. What has carried weight over time are thosee that were serendipitously tracked down. We at Iris Mosaic will strive to do just that. Keep a record in our archives of each and every one of a kind original paainting we've made and sold, starting with everything posted right now on this site.  And (if at all possible) we shall strive to keep track of changes of ownership so we know where as many of the paintings are and their stories as they change hands.