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Mosaic Art• Mosaic is a kind of art made by laying
down small pieces of different colored material to form pictures or patterns. Mosaics have been around for more than 4,000 years!
• Early mosaics were pebble sidewalks, using different colored stones to create patterns.
• Later, the Greeks used the pebble technique as an art form, with geometric patterns and detailed scenes of people and animals.
• This lion was made around 300 BC (more than 2,000 years ago). What different color pebbles are used here?
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Roman Mosaics
• By 200 BC, specially made pieces called "tesserae" (TES uh ree) were used to give extra detail and color to mosaics.
• Using small, even tiny, tesserae meant that mosaics could imitate, or look like, paintings.
• This mosaic is of the Roman goddess Venus. Does it look like a painting?
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Roman Mosaics• Here is a close-up of
Venus.
• Which colors did the artist choose to create the eyes?
• Look how the artist uses black tiles to mark parts of the face.
• Which parts of the face are marked by the black tiles?
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Roman Mosaics
• This is a mosaic of a seahorse.
• Notice how white tesserae are used to show the horse’s details.
• Do you see its sea-monster tail?
• Floor mosaics were mostly made of marble and stone.
• Why do you think mosaic pieces for floors were not made of glass?
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Byzantine Mosaics• Around the year 400 AD in
Byzantium (now Turkey), mosaics took on new characteristics.
• These mosaics had Eastern influences in style and used special glass tesserae called smalti (SMALL-tee), made in northern Italy.
• Smalti were made from thick sheets of colored glass. They had a rough surface and contained tiny air bubbles.
• They were sometimes made with reflective silver or gold leaf. Which color is used here?
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Islamic Mosaics• Ancient Islamic mosaics were
made of stone, glass, and ceramic.
• While Byzantine mosaics are “figurative” (meaning, about figures, like people), Islamic mosaics are mainly geometric and mathematical (patterns and designs).
• In Arabic countries, a distinctive decorative style called zillij (ZIL lige) uses specially made ceramic shapes that fit together perfectly to cover a surface.
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Zillij Style Mosaics
• Here is an example of zillij mosaics.
• This is a fountain covered by mosaics.
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Zillij Style Mosaics
• Here is a close-up of the zillij style fountain.
• Do you see how the tiles are certain shapes?
• What different shapes are used here?
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Modern Mosaics
• Between 1938 and 1964, a man named Raymonde Isidore decorated his whole house using mosaics.
• The house is southwest of Paris, France and is called La Maison Picassiette. Isidore’s nickname "Picassiette" comes from a French expression meaning a "scrounger."
• Isidore used broken crockery, painting, and sculpture in his mosaics. Why do you think “scrounger” was a good nickname?
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La Maison Picassiette • All the furniture in Isidore’s
house is covered with mosaics. Even the table, chairs, footstool, and bed are covered with mosaics!
• Can you imagine what life was like in this small house where 3 little children lived?
• This mosaic activity must have caused a mess of dust and broken crockery....and where did they sleep while the cement was drying on the bed?
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La Maison Picassiette
• Here is the stove, which actually worked!
• Isidore never considered himself to be an artist. His real job was sweeping graveyards!
• He devoted 30 years, 29,000 hours, and 15 tons of crockery to this project.
• Isidore probably never would have imagined that his house, La Maison Picassiette, would attract over 30,000 visitors each year!
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Modern Mosaics• There are lots of mosaics
around today. This mosaic of dancing women is by an artist named Irina Charny.
• Some people use “found objects” (like buttons, toy figures) to make mosaics.
• Mosaic collages of personal objects with connections to everyday life are also sometimes called "memoryware."
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Mosaics in Austin• Did you know there are some
mosaics right here in Austin?
• Here’s a very famous one that is on the floor in the state capitol.
• When you look at it from above, you can’t see the individual mosaic tiles. It looks like a whole picture instead!
• This mosaic is made of terrazzo [Tuh RATS so] . Terrazzo is mosaic flooring made by embedding small pieces of marble or granite in mortar (or concrete) and then polishing it until it is bright and shiny.
• The seals on the floor trace Texas history by representing the six flags that have flown over the state.
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Mosaic Art Response
• What kind of mosaic can you make?
• Will you cut or tear paper for your mosaic or use some other kind of materials?
• Will you do just a design or make a picture?