Celtic art is associated with various people known as Celts; those who spoke the Celtic languages in Europe.
Celtic art is ornamental, avoiding straight lines and only occasionally using symmetry, it often involves complex symbolism.
It includes a variety of styles and often incorporates subtly modified elements from other cultures.
Insular art is the Celtic style of art produced in the post-Roman history of the British Isles, the term derives from insula, the Latin term for “island”; in this period Britain and Ireland shared a common style different from the rest of Europe. The influence of Insular art affected all succeeding European medieval art, especially in the decorative elements of Romanesque and Gothic manuscripts.
Insular arts Illuminated manuscripts.
The surfaces are highly decorated with intricate patterning, interlacing into each other with no attempt to give an impression of depth, volume or recession.
In the initial or carpet pages, where a page is filled with colourful abstract interlace or sometimes animals, the most frequently used decorative elements were curvilinear, interlace and rectilinear patterns. Curvilinear patterns: round patterns like spirals and circles were used in the Celtic manuscript decoration frequently influencing the letter and continuing to create different shapes that the original letter did not have.
Another important feature of Celtic illuminated manuscripts is the human figures. The peculiarity of the treatment of the insular Celtic human is its abstraction. Humans and animals were treated alike and were altered into abstract patterns in Celtic art.
Celtic art is ornamental, avoiding straight lines and only occasionally using symmetry, it often involves complex symbolism.
It includes a variety of styles and often incorporates subtly modified elements from other cultures.
Insular art is the Celtic style of art produced in the post-Roman history of the British Isles, the term derives from insula, the Latin term for “island”; in this period Britain and Ireland shared a common style different from the rest of Europe. The influence of Insular art affected all succeeding European medieval art, especially in the decorative elements of Romanesque and Gothic manuscripts.
Insular arts Illuminated manuscripts.
The surfaces are highly decorated with intricate patterning, interlacing into each other with no attempt to give an impression of depth, volume or recession.
In the initial or carpet pages, where a page is filled with colourful abstract interlace or sometimes animals, the most frequently used decorative elements were curvilinear, interlace and rectilinear patterns. Curvilinear patterns: round patterns like spirals and circles were used in the Celtic manuscript decoration frequently influencing the letter and continuing to create different shapes that the original letter did not have.
Another important feature of Celtic illuminated manuscripts is the human figures. The peculiarity of the treatment of the insular Celtic human is its abstraction. Humans and animals were treated alike and were altered into abstract patterns in Celtic art.
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