Micro miniature
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Micro miniature (also called micro art or micro sculpture) is a fine art form. Micro miniatures are made with the assistance of microscopes, or eye surgeon tools. It originated at the end of 20th century.{{cite web|url=http://www.dissercat.com/content/khudozhestvennaya-mikrominiatyura-kak-sredstvo-postroeniya-mikrokosma-kultury|title=Определение из диссертации Станислава Коненко "Художественная микроминиатюра как средство построения микрокосма культуры"}}
Museums
The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures in Kansas City, Missouri has micro-miniatures in their permanent collection and in their exhibit titled Micro Curiosities, a permanent exhibit displaying the work of several fine-scale miniature artists.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City holds a micro-miniature basket made by a Pomo Native American artist around 1910.{{cite web |title=Micro-miniature one-rod coiled basket |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/848983 |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=30 June 2022}}
The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, California has a collection of the microminiatures of the Armenian artist Hagop Sandaldjian in their permanent exhibition, The Eye of the Needle.{{cite web |title=The Eye of the Needle: The Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaldjian |url=https://www.mjt.org/exhibits/hagop/hagop2.html |publisher=Museum of Jurassic Technology |access-date=30 June 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Weschler |first1=Lawrence |title=Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder |date=2013 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |location=New York |isbn=9780307833983 |pages=59–60 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qi0KXWvM8HIC |access-date=30 June 2022}}
The Museum of Miniatures located in Prague focuses on works of microminiature art. It features the work of Edward Ter Ghazarian, Anatoly Konenko, Nikolai Aldunin among others.{{cite web |title=Small is beautiful: Prague museum focuses on micro miniature art |url=https://english.radio.cz/small-beautiful-prague-museum-focuses-micro-miniature-art-8685983 |website=Prague Radio International |date=17 July 2020 |access-date=30 June 2022}}
The Museum of Microminiatures in St. Petersburg includes micro-miniature work by Vladimir Aniskin of Novosibirsk, Siberia, as well as Nikolai Aldunin of Moscow.
Artists
- Nikolai Aldunin
- Vladimir Aniskin
- Rafik Badalyan
- Anatoly Konenko{{cite news |last1=McDonnell |first1=Sharon |title=The men who shoe fleas |url=https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20170331-where-fleas-wear-shoes |access-date=30 June 2022 |publisher=BBC |date=7 April 2017}}
- Mallikarjuna Reddy
- Hagop Sandaldjian{{cite journal |last1=House |first1=Arthur |title=A wacky Wunderkammer in Los Angeles |journal=Apollo Magazine of International Art |date=25 February 2019 |url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/a-wacky-wunderkammer-in-los-angeles/ |access-date=30 June 2022}}
- Graham Short
- Willard Wigan{{cite news |title=The man who makes millions from miniature art |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/the-man-who-makes-millions-from-miniature-art-6749854.html |access-date=30 June 2022 |publisher=Evening Standard |date=10 April 2012}}
References
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Further reading
Ermann, Lynn. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1999/02/14/they-have-jobs-on-the-slide-microscopic-art/1652e49b-d80c-4612-9cf4-6965bf8afeb2/ They have jobs on the slide: Microscopic art], The Washington Post, February 14, 1999