It has been a bit hectic rounding up all of the brilliant people I met in Vegas…  I do have a few more for you this week before we head out for the holidays. Enjoy!!

When visiting COWBOY Christmas in Las Vegas I was so pleased to run across the space laid out for the Le Cadeau Du Cheval – The Horse Gift.  This is a magnificent compilation of 238 paintings of horses ~ when all of these paintings are put together they create a masterpiece work with a running horse as the celebrated subject.

MURAL MOSAIC, the company behind the mural, is the brain child of Lewis Lavoie and Phil Alain who created the organization in an effort to take current artists, celebrate their unique styles, then propel them to international exposure by combining their talents into one definable work. Lavoie first created a MOSAIC when he, himself, painted hundreds of individual paintings to make up the face of Michelangelo’s DAVID. Several years later Lavoie’s mosaic concept, along with 70 artists from Phil Alains’ Night of Artist group, painted live in a 24 hour marathon to create the HERITAGE FIDDLER. The successful event led MURAL MOSAIC to be officially formed. Since then several more Mosaics have been assembled, each with a different subject matter, and with methods other than the 24 hour nail-biting marathon.

The Le Cadeau Du Cheval – The Horse Gift started as the simple idea of a horse. With the horse’s international appeal to a broad range of devotees, as well as the historical significance, strength and power that makes horses so special, this was a subject that could easily touch hearts.Lavoie and Alain then set about contacting artists who, although they had diverse backgrounds, all had a passion for horses. The chosen artists were then sent a master image for their individual panel. These panels, designed by Lavoie, contained color guidelines and simple shapes.

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The individual artists took their simple canvases from Lavoie and were then free to make them their own as long as the paintings fit within the theme of the mural. Some of the paintings were inspired by images from the artist’s childhoods, some from their current relationships with horses, there was even an artist, Linda Loper, who lends much of her success with her breast cancer treatments to the therapeutic effects of her horse.  When browsing through the MURAL MOSAIC website you can click on each of the panels to see what the artist was originally given as a guideline, along with their final product and a small artist bio.

After eighteen months of design, research, and bringing the art together, on September 3, 2008 Lavoie and Alain unveiled Le Cadeau Du Cheval – The Horse Gift.  For the next two years the mural will travel and then be donated to a permanent showcase.  There are a couple of ways that you can own a part of this monument to the equine artists of the 21st century…  First you may purchase a Limited Edition print.  OR you may wait until MURAL MOSAIC produces their Mural Book for the Horse Gift.  Like those created for other murals, a Mural Book is being created that will contain 238 pages depicting each of the canvases in the mural.  The idea is to take the pages out of the book so that you can produce your own life-size mural.  Stunning AND brilliant… Love it!!

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