What does mosaic mean

Mosaic, translated from MOSAIC, the original meaning is to use inlaid way to put together the detailed decoration. Architectural term for brocade tile, divided into ceramic brocade tile and glass brocade tile two kinds.

At the same time, mosaic is also a method of image processing, when the appearance of things that are not suitable for the appearance of the method to make these things translucent (fuzzy), because these things are in the shape of a grid, so it is also called mosaic. Therefore, because it is commonly used to process sensitive images, mosaic often also insinuates the sensitive image itself, creating a metaphor. Censorship in the Japanese pornography industry usually requires mosaic treatment of areas such as human genitalia. Some full-exposure pornographic videos are called "no-code" videos.

Mosaic, which translates as mosaic, originally meant a detailed decoration made of inlaid pieces. Early cave dwellers used a variety of marbles to make their floors more durable, and the earliest mosaics were derived from this foundation.

The earliest mosaic is a kind of mosaic art, with small stones, shells, tiles, glass and other colored inlays applied to the wall surface or floor of the drawing pattern to express a kind of art.

Mosaic became a decorative material, the earliest was found to be used in the architectural decoration of the mosaic is the Sumerian temple wall, in the Mesopotamian plains of the two river basin of the temple wall has mosaic mosaic decorative patterns, it is said that the Sumerian sun dog mosaic is found many of the earliest mosaic collage. The most archaeological discoveries is the ancient greek era, the ancient greek marble mosaic paving stone application is very common, the most commonly used form of black and white with each other and become the paving stone mosaic, only the authority of the rulers and the rich rich can afford to hire craftsmen and buy materials, with mosaic inlaid into a variety of patterns to decorate their own place of residence. Decorative performance with mosaics at that time was a luxury art, the development of the late ancient Greek, some craftsmen and artists in order to diversify the richness of its architectural decorative works, began to use smaller pieces of crushed stone, and their own hand-cut small pieces of stone through a variety of colors, combinations to complete a mosaic mosaic works, paved and pasted on the walls of the building, the ground, the columns, its primitive, rough Artistic expression, is a valuable asset of mosaic history and culture.

To the ancient Roman period, the mosaic has developed a very common, general residential and public **** building walls and floors, columns, countertops, furniture, etc. are used to decorate the mosaic, perhaps someone has seen the blockbuster film "Gladiators" will know how affluent the ancient Roman period, the Roman columns, Roman temple buildings, Roman arch buildings, Roman sculpture and mosaic decoration and puzzle everywhere, the Roman architectural art is indeed luxurious to incredible. Ancient Roman architectural art is indeed luxurious to an incredible extent, and even modern, modern some of the classic works of architectural art, are in the application of ancient Roman architectural style, in China's modern history of architectural art, the Bund in Shanghai, Beijing Dongjiao Minxiang, Guangzhou Shamian, Qingdao, Qingdao's village of ten thousand countries, Dalian's small foreign buildings, Harbin's Xiyanglou Street, Wuhan, the Western architectural complex of the riverside, etc., most of which is the ancient Roman architectural style of the Buildings, buildings inside and outside the use of mosaics and traces of mosaic puzzles, of which the HSBC building on the Bund in Shanghai, the Post Office building is retained extremely valuable and classic mosaic puzzle and mosaic decoration, world-famous building - Nanjing Zhongshan Mausoleum in the great Dr. Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum arched top of the Kuomintang party emblem, is the a precious mosaic puzzle.

The prevalence of mosaics in ancient Rome thanks to the early Christians came to Rome by the local aristocrats of the crackdown and persecution, in the great social pressure, art has become the best way to express the faith of Christians, they gather in the basement and underground passage, because most of their people are illiterate, they put the Christian stories and legends in the basement passage walls made into a Since most of their people were illiterate, they made mosaic pictures of Christian stories and legends on the walls of the basement passages to spread the Christian culture, and many mosaic murals depicting the stories of Jesus Christ have survived in the basements and passages of these gatherings of Christians and people. Therefore, many of the classic mosaic frescoes, are still related to Christian legends and stories, the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great after the accession to the throne of Christianity legalized and vigorously propaganda, so the church in Constantinople (Byzantium) with a large number of mosaics and mosaic collage to decorate and beautify the use of more and more colors. Roman aristocrats in order to show off their mind-boggling wealth, the gold leaf burned on the transparent glass to use, most of the characteristics of the Sicilian mosaics are gold background, gold leaf mosaics first appeared in Sicily during the Roman period. Therefore, the Byzantine period of art almost to be equated with the word mosaic, the Roman period of mosaic as a common aristocratic art performance is ubiquitous, therefore, the Roman period of mosaic is the golden period of the history of mosaics, but also the most classic period of mosaic art.

In the 15th century, the Turks conquered Constantinople, the ancient city of Constantinople, the size of the church was changed to a mosque by the Turks, pious Christians in order to preserve and defend the Christian culture and art, with white paint to cover the mosaic, after the changes in history, Christianity in the local revered again when the pious Christians changed to a mosque in the church of the mosaic collage The white paint cleaned off, full of Christian mystery, complex and beautiful mosaic painting and reappeared in the world, its reappearance in the world of a moment, inspired the people of the mosaic of unlimited yearning, mosaic history has entered a more splendid development period. In the 16th century, glass makers discovered how to make a lot of different shades of glass, so some of the mosaic production workshop made as many as 10,000 different shades of mosaics, they began to use mosaic mosaic form of imitation painters painting or copying the famous paintings, so that the mosaic art has become highly detailed and complex, leaving a lot of the world a lot of classic mosaic mosaic works of art.

European Renaissance, the painter's application of perspective to emphasize the spatial structure, the formation of a breakthrough in the plane of painting, in the plane in the pursuit of three-dimensional sense, this time the mosaic so embedded in the painting material itself is not suitable for such a three-dimensional performance, mosaic as the art of painting to realism is very difficult to mosaic, mosaic is unique to the rigid form of dramatization, the mosaic artists engaged in the creation of artists to forget about them! Function, instead of being mosaic greatly constrained. With the Renaissance came the complex pursuit of details, the rise of Renaissance oil painting, a variety of art materials, as well as the choice of building forms, architectural style changes have accelerated the decline of the mosaic, resulting in European civilization in recent centuries, could not trigger people's interest in the ancient art of mosaics, mosaic art history once into a downturn in the development of a period of time, but a number of great Renaissance Painter due to pigments, painting techniques and painting tools and other factors constraints, so that its paintings are difficult to save, so the royal family or some of the da Xian aristocrats order craftsmen to collect different colors, texture of natural stone, cut and polished into a small piece, a small piece of particles, according to some of the artist's original paintings are laid one by one on the wall, so that the master of the paintings and some of the content of the famous paintings to be preserved for all eternity. Mosaic art to save paintings and other works of art unique permanent technique, also makes the mosaic become a shining star of the Renaissance.

When the mosaic art in the Renaissance due to the rise of other forms of artistic expression and become declined, in the western hemisphere of the Inca, Maya and Aztec civilization, produced a mixture of mosaic and inlay techniques to decorate hand jewelry and small objects, with gold and clay and Turkish jade, garnet and obsidian, etc., to create complex human body and geometric shapes and other artistic expression, and the Dio Tiwakon people used turquoise, shells or obsidian decorations to make masks, and the art of mosaic continued.

The end of the 19th century in Spain, Anthony Heights began to mosaic into the art of architecture, he made in Barcelona's Güell Park backrest mosaic seat, is a classic masterpiece of mosaic in the art of architecture, he used this new treatment, the strong and powerful abstraction in the art of architecture to show, the combination of the art of mosaic used in the moving and bending of the building structures, reflecting the mosaic art. The combination of mosaic art applied to moving and bending architectural structures, reflecting the characteristics of the mosaic of the most sophisticated details of the transformation.

Then later, some early Christian culture of mosaic works, because of the Christianity of the re-propagation of the reappearance of the old art of mosaic charm continue to improve and conquer the thinking of modern artists, as a result, caused a number of painting artists and ceramicists began to use mosaics as paintings and decorative works of art. Modern mosaic due to the progress of productivity, production process technology level continues to improve, decorative materials continue to produce and be applied, mosaic soon broke through the traditional mosaic of the range of materials used. Such as ceramics, mica, wood, colored glass pieces, metal pieces alternately, forming a more texture and color impact of the mosaic art.

Today, the materials that can be used to make mosaics are more and more flexible. From the traditional marble, small pebbles, glass tiles, ceramic tiles, porcelain tiles and enamel, to any material you can use in your life such as buttons, cutlery or stationery. In today's age of high industrial technology, glass-like inlays made of gold and silver can also be mass-produced.

Mosaics have been taken seriously by academics because of their place and special meaning in visual culture, for example, by the website dedicated to the study of visual culture: mosaicvisualculturestudies.com. By the 1950s, the art world was inspired by the re-emergence of magnificent Byzantine mosaics, and with the advent of new materials such as fiberglass and plastics, it provided modern mosaicists with a fresh opportunity to be able to once again create unique and striking works of art. As a traditional and powerful means of decoration, mosaic has become a highly expressive art form in modern decor.

Established in 1956, the famous Italian manufacturer BISSAZA glass mosaic reproduced the artistic glory of the mosaic, but also make the mosaic into the industrialization of the road; established in 1987, SICIS is Italy's best mosaic producers, known for design concepts, will be fine figures and birds and historical themes interpreted to the fullest.

There is also a modern interpretation, extended to cover important parts, such as the media is not convenient to expose a person is to cover his face, looks blurred. Because of the development of computer technology, the image has the concept of pixel combination, such as appearing in television video, or computer pictures and other electronic graphics or flat prints of analog graphics, by enlarging the pixels to achieve the role of blurred images. Because the shape is like a mosaic of regular staggering, it is called "mosaic". Mr. Yu Weiyong, the senior designer of Shanghai Movilink Culture, even extends the application of mosaic to the expression of COSPLAY props and animation works. Ltd. production of cospaly clothing process found that, because a lot of animation COSPLAY clothing works, especially in the production of armor, the mosaic shape logic of the arrangement, the use of armor pieces to the layout of the armor, to achieve the COSPLAY armor clothing surface treatment texture feeling.