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Byzantine Painted Mosaic
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ABOUT BYZANTINE MOSAICS
A mosaic is art that is made up of many small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials such as paper or ceramics. During Medieval times in the Byzantine Empire, mosaics were a popular art form. Mosaics made of stone, glass, pearls and gold commonly decorated the interiors of churches all over the empire.
Instead of using small glass pieces the students created their masterpieces using controlled strokes of paint. Color choice and placement were emphasized, along with proportions of the face and compositional layout.
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“Justinian and His Attendants” at San Vitale (c. 544-545 CE) cropped
Empress Theodora. 547, mosaic, Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
Owen
Cassidy
Lauren
Alaina
Teddy
Mackenzie
Brayden
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Emily
Notan
Notan is a Japanese term which literally means "light dark harmony". Artists use "notan studies" to explore different arrangements of light and dark elements in a piece of art, without having the distraction of other elements like color, texture and finer details.
Students explored the use of different shapes and how the light and dark color played against one another to create negative and positive shapes and spaces.
Maddie
Anna
Eden
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