This is the post for my assignment. I left my original 700 word post in a separate blog entry.
I feel the plates are creations by people with a complex, detailed eye for design. Prior to knowing design principles, viewers could only comment on how beautiful a piece of art is without understanding.
The Book of Kells has illustrations with decorated outside borders, many quartered symmetrical rectangles and uses repeating decorative shapes and symbols. The images are neat, tidy and have aligned contrasting colors repeated throughout the illustrations.
Book of Kells creators used vellum to create these works and the fact that they were painstakingly created using time-consuming detail helps the viewer understand just how important the scriptures were to people from these eras.
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