From Mosaic to Pixel in Textile Art
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https://doi.org/10.47451/art2022-05-04Keywords:
textile art, textile design, patchwork, textile collage, digital, pixel, mosaic, contemporary art, NFTAbstract
Due to technology and how the woven or knitted textile surfaces are created, they can be reduced to a graphical representation of modular, often square modular geometric grids. Thus thought, any decorative composition resembles the mosaic technique in which for the construction of the image it is reduced to a structure of units of the same size but of different colours or textures. Historically, the patchwork illustrates the technique of textile mosaic and makes the transition between classical, manual or mechanical techniques and contemporary digital art. Pixel art and the compositions of NFT works are based on a similar concept, creating the work from tiny independent images, which are chromatically modular correlated.
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