The Mosaics

The origins of Mosaic with collage and metaphor for globalization
Archaeologists have found the earliest form of mosaic made of small stones black and white and sometimes red pebbles assembled by mortar. The Mosaic archaic appears to be the first form of collage assemblage. The oldest date back to Asia Minor VIII century BC. These forms does not called Mosaic at the outset. This name appears in the 1st century BC and his trademark booming, which will continue until fifth century evolving into geometric forms and figurative to decline in Italy and the West in general and later to almost disappear.

The mosaic appears rediscovered by painters like Cezanne and some impressionists from the late nineteenth century. Through their research work on the form and volumes they open up new avenues of research that will put the cubists on the agenda modern mosaic.

Artists from the beginning of a new century discernible contribution at all, and its fragments. The unit together and discontinuity heterogeneity of constituents of a work, harmony result of this activity assembly fascinates artists.

With this report at all with the mosaic fragments also has a predisposition to become metaphor. According Lucien Dällenbach explosion in the use of the mosaic coincides with the explosion of new communications and globalization. It gives an aesthetic dimension at the same time as political. There is talk of state mosaic speaking from Switzerland who form a unit despite a very different languages, customs and tradition. In terms of globalization and the Mosaics esthétise face of the world and makes it presentable. It gives a visible form in the world, it would be so beautiful that the world is a mosaic from which its success and development.