The Many Faces of Easter Egg Art

I would like to share with you my most comforting Easter quote:
"Advantage #2 of Old Age Memory Loss:  You can hide your own eggs."

Some of my favorite Easter egg images are below. I hope you enjoy them over and over, as if you had never seen them before....
1.  Eggs Painted and Decorated, from the simple to the lavish
2.  Edible Eggs
3.  Works of Art composed of Easter Eggs, and
4.  The Largest Easter Eggs in the World, including the largest chocolate egg, which I truly covet

EGGS PAINTED AND DECORATED

Egg painting is an artform that is practiced by children, their parents, and artists.  Anyone can create at least one of these... from the simplest dyed eggs....

to hand-painted eggs with floral motifs.....

                                to whimsically painted eggs...

to marbled eggs...








to egg homages of favorite movie and tv show characters, like those from Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars....

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to one-of-a-kind eggs painted by talented artists, like Delia Pacheco,
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to eggs fit for a golden goose....

to "grunge" eggs, nestled in a traditional basket....

Photo:  Tony Horpel

to "humpty dumpty" eggs from a store window in the resort of Sandpoint, Idaho...

to eggs with painted folk stories...

or eggs with religious motifs, such as this one from Bucharest, Romania...








Of course, you don't have to always paint Easter Eggs.

You may wrap them with ribbons....

or tie them with bows....

or embroider them.....

or knit over them...

or make them from felt...

or fabric....

or decorate them with wire....

or wrap them in string....

or carve them in intricate designs....

You may wish to bead them....

Or, if you are Peter Carl Faberge, the jeweler to the Tsar of Russia, you may wish to craft them from gold and enamel, and include an Easter surprise inside...

EDIBLE EASTER EGGS  Your favorite eggs, however, may be the edible eggs.....

like chocolate eggs...

or jelly bean eggs....

or sugar eggs....

or cookie eggs....

or cereal eggs...

or egg cakes...

LARGE WORKS OF EASTER EGG ART  Of course, individual eggs can be put together to create wonderful works of art.

Detail

Absolutely wondrous is this portrait of the Virgin Mary created by Ukranian artist Oksana Mars, using 15,000 painted eggs.  Displayed in 2010 in Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, the mosaic weighed 2.5 tons and measured 7 X 7 meters.

Here is a full view of the Virgin Mary Easter Egg mosaic.  More information can be found at the following website:  http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/virgin-mary-mosaic-made-from-15000-easter-eggs.html

In Saalfeld, Germany, Voker Krafte created an Easter egg tree marvel....

                    Up close, you can see the variety of intricately-crafted eggs...

You can get more information at http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/christmas-has-a-festive-tree-so-why-not-easter.html.

THE LARGEST EGGS IN THE WORLD  The title for the largest Easter egg in existence is hotly contested.

The Canadian town of Vegreville claims that their 25.7 foot long aluminum egg is the biggest ever constructed.  It was installed in 1975 to commemorate early Ukrainian settlements near Edmonton.

The city of Suceava, Romania lays claims for the largest painted Easter egg, measuring 7.25 meters high.  It is decorated with traditional patterns of red, symbolizing the blood of Jesus; black symbolizing eternity; and yellow, symbolizing light.

Flickr, from Mia

The entrance to a museum in Koloyia, Ukraine, also lays claim as the largest Easter egg.  It is 14 meters high, and 10 meters wide.  The museum has a collection of over 10,000 Easter eggs from not only the Ukraine, but Belarus, Poland, Sweden, France, Pakistan, the US, and India, among others.  For more info, go to www.armchairtravelogue.blogspot.com

The Guinness Book of World Records claims that this chocolate egg, made in 2005 in Sint Niklaas, Belgium, is the largest ever created. Produced by the famous chocolatier Guylian, it measures 8.32 meters high.  It took 26 craftsmen 525 hours to build the egg, using 4300 pounds of chocolates.  There are about 9000 calories in a pound of chocolate.  If I ate the whole thing....which I could.... I would consume 38,700,000 calories.

Finally, breaking no record that I am aware of, here is an egg painted and planted in a square in Zabreg, Yugoslavia.  A view from one side.........

and then the other.....