#wall tile

Interesting use of hexagon wall tile / backsplash for kitchen - works against the bold kitchen cabinets and range hood.

Painted twenty years after John Frederick Lewis returned to London after a decade in Cairo, this picture’s title is a quotation from the Epistle of St. James in the New Testament, yet the work apparently depicts a Muslim man reading from the Koran. The cross-cultural ambiguity is complicated further by the close resemblance of the reclining sick woman to Lewis’s wife, Marianne; furthermore, the cross-legged reader appears to be a self-portrait of the artist. A panel on the wall bears a relief of the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor, and above this is a quotation from the Koran: “We have embraced the faith, so forgive us.”

Fougeron was the leading artist associated with the French Communist Party in the early 1950s. This is a portrait of his wife. By surrounding her with the details of their own modest domestic interior - the loaf and vegetables, the standard tiling and utilitarian sink - he indicates a simple life of material struggle.

When Pigs Fly Tile

Reflecting Flower — Ceramic Tile Wall Art by AlexisGalloShop

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ZERO.3 GLAM porcelain tiles produced by Panaria. (Hi-Res 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).