CLASS OVERVIEW
Today's class finished up a two week project of Romanesque Medieval Tiles. As we now are in the Romanesque art period, we are beginning to see how the art is branching out into other mediums and types of art.
Last week in class the students created their tiles from clay by molding and cutting it to shape. It was fun to see all the creativity as various pasta was used for imprinting a design into the tiles.
Today in class, students took their now dried tiles and painted them. A characteristic of the Romanesque art is that the colors began to get brighter, and also, gold began to be incorporated into the different arts. However, the colors were still simple. So students were offered a simple palette of the three primary colors - red, blue, and yellow - along with gold; with encouragement to mix the colors how their creativity led, we ended up with a beautiful array of tiles!
Want to see more of how these tiles would have been made?
Here is a special LINK that shows a great video of how medieval tile would have been made:
ASSIGNMENTS
-Research the characteristics of the GOTHIC art period
-Look at examples of Gothic Stain Glass. Come to class next week with an idea for your stain glass project.
