If your example is a figurative work, what are the abstracted style qualities? What is it about the image that veers from our optical perception of the world? How do figures invite us into their heavenly realm?
TASK Class discussion: How does an artist create a visual experience that takes the viewer from mundane cares to otherworldly spiritualism? Byzantine and Islamic aesthetics aim for just this kind of transcendent experience. The purpose of this exercise is to search for methods used by Byzantine and Islamic designers to evoke a sense of the […]