My Illumination!

Here it is.

Spanish Illuminations: They's got purdy colors!

These I didn't like as much as the Celtic illuminations. I did like the use of diagonal lines, concentric circles, and color bands. The random border action with the fancy designs seems to not fit the rest of the page, but other than that I think the writing of apocalyptic texts is kind of interesting. I had trouble finding modern art influenced by Spanish illuminations, but I did find a Picasso painting that contains some of the elements found in the Beatus Manuscripts we discussed in class, which I also have pictures of for comparison.

 

 It has diagonal lines, color blocks in the background, and a strange-looking 2D figure. The colors used, at least in the background, are similar to those used in the Beatus manuscripts.

Hey look, color bands and unusually anatomically incorrect persons!

And again.

Irish Illumination: Then and Now

I'm generally liking the Celtic art. I love the long, curving, organic shapes, the big line spacing between lines of text, the use of earthy tones, and the interesting division of space in various pictures. I don't know how I feel about the excessive use of pattern, but that is something that a lot of people at the time seemed to do.

 

The shape that this makes is awesome, but it is extremely patterned as well.

 

This is a cool design, has shading, pretty wavy lines, and texture on the wing. Plus the line draws your eye to the bellybutton. Perfect.

This is cool, because it combines the use of line and pattern, but keeps it from getting cluttered by adding some negative space instead of stuffing more pattern in between.

Hmmm...

Realized that last statement in my last post didn't make a whole bunch of sense. Meh.