Thứ Tư, 3 tháng 6, 2009

Ancient Pixel Knowledge

Take a photo of a face and break down to about 30 pixels across, and you’ve got a low-res deconstruction in the manner of Chuck Close.


It seems like a very modern notion until you see how the Romans did the same thing a couple thousand years ago.

The mosaic artists in Tunisia created these faces according to the same kind of reductive thinking. They were mostly itinerant artists, carrying a huge batch of tile colors.

They would cover a whole floor with scenes of mermaids and animals and gods, working pixel by pixel.

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