Lecture 12 Review: What are some characteristics of Islamic Art?

What are some characteristics of Islamic Art? How do these characteristics reflect attitudes towards religion or society?

8 thoughts on “Lecture 12 Review: What are some characteristics of Islamic Art?

  1. cleanna

    Some characteristics of Islamic Art are unlike most artist that deal with images and figures Islamic art focuses more on geometric shapes and or design not to mention patterns. An example is tiles the kind you see on a floor or in a hall or maybe even a gallery.

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  2. tatsiana

    Some main characteristics of Islamic pictorial arts includes vibrant colors, vivid contrasted images, flowers, other adornments, and represent religious as well as regional stories.
    The Five Characteristics:
    Tessellation
    Complex Star Polygons
    Linear Repeat Patterns
    Arabesque
    Calligraphy

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  3. Nicola Allen

    some characteristic of Islamic art is that it is nonrepresentational instead of representing images and figures. Islamic art is also consist of geometric shapes and patterns one of those design is called the arabesque.

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  4. Delara Akter

    characteristic of islamic art is that it is nonrepresentational, Islamic art is comprised geometric shapes and patterns. It is also called arabesque and calligraphy.

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  5. tatsiana

    Islamic art is comprised of geometric shapes and patterns. One of these is called the arabesque, which is an interweaving of floral, leaf and geometric designs.

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  6. Emilly

    The Islamic art focuses more on architecture. The characteristics of Islamic art are floral designs, geometric and calligraphy. It doesn’t reflect on religion, it is non-figural they believe is a sin towards God to idolize a human-like form.

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  7. sabiha s Bristy

    There are four different types of decorations found in Islamic art: “calligraphy, vegetal patterns, geometric patterns, and figural representation” . As I think it doesn’t reflect on religion.

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