islamic art: decorative art(jean's report)
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Islamic art:
Decorative art!
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unglazed wares,molded pieces with
the lead of Hellenistic
traditglaze ion, and
most famous, the
lusterware fragments
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CALLIGRAPHIC
TRADITION
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Allah inArabic
Script
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Cursive Scripts-Deewani
-Kufi-Farsi
-Reqaa-Naskh
-Thuluth
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Deewani
Those whoteach
me have my
everlastingrespect.
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KufiThe Prophet
Mohammed
peace andblessings be
upon him.
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Farsi
Sufficient for me is
Allah in Him those
who trust must put
their trust.
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Reqaa
"In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, theMost Merciful Say: "I seek refugewith (Allah) the
Lord of the day-break,"From theevil ofwhat he has
created; And from theevil of the darkening (night) as
it comes with its darkness; (or the moon as it sets or
goes away), And from theevil of thewitchcrafts
when they blow in theknots, And from theevil of
theenvier when heenvies."
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Naskh
"He is Allah, (the) One. "Allah As-Samad (The Self-Sufficient Master,
Whom all creatures need, He neither
eats nor drinks). "He begets not,nor
was He begotten;"And there is none
co-equal or comparable unto Him.
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Thuluth... and if you
count theBlessings of
Allah, never youwill be able to
count them
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Geometric Forms
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Abstractionand unity
are,therefore at
the heart of
Islamic art
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Three fundamentalforms come
out of this:1) the triangle
2) the square3) the hexagon
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Arabesques.
Alhambra in
Grenada,
Spain.
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Floraldecoration
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FIGURATIVE ART
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Basedon the Hadith
oral
traditions
relating to
the words anddeeds of
Mohammed.
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This kind of art tends to
be non-religious,though
it also exists as
manuscript illumination
and can depict religious
figures though neverAllah..
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Mughal Painting
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The Mughal style of
painting refers to
miniatures produced
mainly as book
illustrations and as single
works contained withinalbums.
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Note also the
repetitive
decoration onwalls,
furniture, carpets,
fabrics and ceilings
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Muslim Carpets
*carpet weaving was
animportant art form in
Islam, and remains
important in theIslamic world today.
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Two traditions of
carpet weaving are
most important in the
Muslim world.
Persian
Turkish
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