Mosaic

1. What is a mosaic?
- A mosaic is A picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass.

2. When were mosaics used in history?
-The history of mosaic goes back some 4,000 years or more, with the use of terracotta cones pushed point-first into a background to give decoration. By the eighth century BC, there were pebble pavements, using different coloured stones to create patterns, although these tended to be unstructured decoration. It was the Greeks, in the four centuries BC, who raised the pebble technique to an art form, with precise geometric patterns and detailed scenes of people and animals. http://www.thejoyofshards.co.uk/history/

3. How were mosaics used?
-  Many of the mosaics were floors. The ancient Romans had a heating system under their floors and perhaps the tiles were more functional than any other covering. These early mosaics can also be found around England, where the Romans also lived, under farmhouse floors. There is a museum in Cirenchester, in England, that has many of them. The purpose of a mosaic is that it is a technique of decoration art that was done in ancient Rome and an aspect of interior decoration of of cultural and also spiritual significance as in a cathedral.

4. What kinds of art were created? 
- Abstract, Sketch, Scratch, Tile, Oil Paintings,  there is ALOT of art.