La técnica mosaico muchas veces es usada para fines decorativos que se realiza combinando diferentes elementos para formar una figura que se coloca en paredes, pisos o techos para sustituir la pintura u otro revestimiento.
También es una obra artística elaborada con pequeñas piezas de piedra, cerámica, vidrio u otros materiales, de diversas formas y colores, llamadas teselas, unidas sobre un lecho aún fresco de yeso, cal y polvo de arcilla, cemento u otro aglomerante para formar composiciones decorativas geométricas, figurativas o abstractas.
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The answer to this question is to resist the pull.
Short/simple answer: because it was forbidden to picture or sculpt anything figurative (i.e. representing a being or object). Figurative art could be wrongly interpreted as a depiction of Allah and worshipped instead of Him, and that would be considered idolatry.
Visual rhetoric is a recent development of a theoretical framework which describes how visual images communicate - opposed to aural, verbal, or other means of communication. It is a kind of visual literacy.
