New World Ceramic presents a new project, scheduled for completion in early 2012, featuring mosaic work that recreates the classical style of Roman North Africa: Tunisian Mosaic.

The main feature of this project is the portrait of a sea-nymph astride a Hippocamp, a half-horse, half-serpent sea-creature.

Elsewhere can be seen many sea-creatures, including an octopus almost eight feet across, seeming to reach out of the spa.

The Grotto features many other specimens of fish on a background of dark St. Laurent Brown marble. The contrasts bring out the central Jellyfish in spectacular fashion.

The Bar top, part of the same project, also features a dark background. The bar itself is over twenty-five feet long, and is represented here by a collage of all of the creatures on the bar arranged in a single composition.

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Tunisian Mosaic represents real-life and mythical creatures and subjects in a naturalistic style that ranges from simple and naive to "painterly" realism derived from the Greek style rather than the more formal decorative style of Rome. The art thrived during the first through the fifth century in Roman-occupied North Africa, when fertile farmland provided comfortable living and growing wealth. Tunisian Mosaic represents one of the greatest areas of mosaic heritage, and offers the opportunity for renewed interpretation and revival.

With Tunisian Mosaic, New World Ceramic recreates the look and feel of ancient mosaic art that seems to be "recovered" from a site on the mediterranean coast.

 

 

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 mosaic    
Hippocamp  Sea Life Spa  Octopus
     
 Grotto Mural  Bream  Sea-Nymph
     
Lion Fish  Bar Top Collage  Dolphin
     
 Flounder  Red Snapper  Deep-sea Redfish
     
 Pinfish  Stingray  Eel
     
 Catfish  Nurse Shark  Sea Bass
     
 Triton Horn Shell  Sturgeon  Crab and Mussel
     
 Pipe Fish