LIVING BY DESIGN

Notes from the day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art


1. Textured background, smooth surface for text area in a vertical rectangular block. Use of lines to communicate separation of two continuing or different messages/information. (Egyptian hieroglyph on stone)
2. African ritual sculptures - immediate, highly effective, powerful. Other worldly, of the spirit world, mythological
3. Greek / Early Roman sculptures - indulgent, sensual, appreciative, giving realism to mythological stories. Gods that look like perfect human beings.
4. Roman mosaic - stones with their inherently different colors are used to create color gradations, borders, forms. How many types of stones are being used? How do they all come together as one magnificent mosaic? They must love the stones as much as the images they created with them.
5. Ancient Greek terra-cotta domestic objects: vases, jars, plates.
Everything communicated with the use of only one color—black.