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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