John J. Earley's Mosaic Concrete Art

摘要

In his writings, John J. Earley asserted "there is no masonry material with which as much form and color can be expressed as with exposed aggregate concrete." He demonstrated this with his polychrome mosaic concrete artworks of saints and battle maps. Earley unveiled concrete's potential as an artistic medium through his innovative techniques when he exposed hundreds of colors in the surfaces of intricate illustrations and created complex, three-dimensional (3-D) ornamentation.%John Earley creó un hermoso concreto arquitectónico con colores que provenían del efecto óptico de las piedras y arenas aplastadas expuestas. Su paleta de colores comprendía 10 tonalidades, cinco valores de claro a oscuro, y cuatro cromas o intensidades, resultando en 200 colores. Los proyectos de concreto de mosaico policromado de Earley incluyeron interiores de iglesias, decoraciones de campus, casas de reptiles en el zoológico, casas residenciales y murales. Su estudio continuó su trabajo después de su fallecimiento en 1945.