Ceramic tiles depicting the life of color blue Bifeng Portugal

Ceramic tiles depicting Portugal

In Portugal, blue and white as the background of life. Mosaic of blue and white tile painting, simple, clean and beautiful colors in the church walls, houses beside the gate, dining chair. When these usually modest quiet blue together, you'll find out, they have a powerful aura enchanted, tile murals have been integrated into the Portuguese blood. The Portuguese is taking it as a background, laugh, cry, hugs, kisses, goodbye, comfortable life. Those smooth beautiful tile painting, let's life was dull moment vivid.

Jonny of 36 years old already construction in Oporto for a week on the road, he dug a small black and white stones about six or seven cubic centimeters, stack them into the hills of hoarding in the roadside, many back together again when the restoration. The patterns are clear in mind, do neither fast nor slow. His day in and day out on the streets of Oporto, devoid of burnout: "I every day in Oporto the most vivid Street collage with Portugal's most beautiful road, what work is better than this?"

Like Jonny such craftsmen perhaps in Portugal, the world there are many, and couldn't find second such national, mad by building their own homes and cities.

Either wall tiles or at the foot of the tiles, they can represent national characteristics in Portugal: not tacky, not flatter, to a proper extent. Wandering in the tile Museum and the Buddha Lontra Earls Court, that a large ceramic tile wall is astonished. The pattern of rich details like a piece of historical books, records the life of Portugal's heyday, hunting, business, religion, sailing? ? even the sidewalks, street, the zebra crossing is made of black granite patchwork.

Over the wall of water blue tiles, from a country once beautiful face the sea.

Blue and white, appear in the high streets and back lanes, as the representative of Portugal's color

There is a blue called "portugal"

In Portuguese, tile comes from a Arabia word "Al-zuleique", meaning "smooth stone". Early tile painting the most commonly used black and white to match. Later, in order to enrich the artist works, begin gallet need smaller, and their cutting stone in order to have more color to the completion of a tile painting.

With the development of European seafaring, precious relics Oriental appeared in Europe, especially hard porcelain smooth mellow, more cherish the nobility. But coming from China porcelain is worth more than gold, has become a symbol of status and wealth. The Portuguese Damioo de Goj (Damiao de Gois) in 1541, records show, when Europeans think that China is made from seashells, one is equivalent to a number of slave price. Rare and expensive porcelain are Europeans give a supernatural, such as drug testing, when people believe, if in porcelain for poison, it will crack.

In this case, the European countries have started competing imitation of Chinese porcelain boom. However, porcelain technology is quite complex, want to be successful is not easy, not until 1709 was a never had contact with ceramics alchemist figured it out. Before this, able to get into the eye of the basic left Portugal tile painting.

Since then, the artist palette on a blue to describe the "Portuguese". Ceramic tile painting valuable is that each tile on the pattern will be drawn by hand, a chance to be copied is small, basic it is custom, have strong personal stamp designer. For a long time, tile painting is a symbol of the elite status, only the authority of the rulers and the rich the rich can afford craftsmen, afford to lavish art materials. The more decorative ceramic tiles, the more great importance.

The artistic director of the Portuguese Ratton Museum revealed, swept the Portuguese blue is the dark blue, the firing time with linseed oil or clay color distinction. When Italy floriation pottery technology introduction, mosaic quality is greatly improved, the new technology of Italy adopted the glaze, color can be directly in the later painted, this major technological progress has also brought greater space for artistic expression. Let the ceramic painting expression range wider and freely. Also, gorgeous design in Moorish style pattern based began to appear, each four tiles - blue yellow white as a module creation. Tile painting using color more, gold is also made in the transparent glass to use. Even now the Portuguese are feeling the rich, almost to the unbelievable degree.

However, now walk in Portugal, where you feel more beautiful tile painting is more after the introducing of Delft Blue pottery from Holland. The Portuguese soon adopted it, but after a period of time in which even leading the pottery industry, until the middle of eighteenth Century, the Portuguese had resumed high quality pottery production.

In Lisbon, the square one is feeding dove old man told me, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 city reconstruction after the time get in by every opening, ceramic tile. They are tens of thousands of decoration in every corner: Church, private housing, public buildings and even the park bench. The huge market demand for the birth of a large number of factories to rapidly establish, ordinary Portuguese began to use ceramic tile to decorate the outside of the walls of the house. "Well, Lisbon was not built in a day", he looked at the charming city proudly.