CONTRIBUTION TO UNDERSTANDING THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ISLAMIC ART Cover Image

PRILOG RAZUMIJEVANJU TEMELJNIH PRINCIPA ISLAMSKE UMJETNOSTI
CONTRIBUTION TO UNDERSTANDING THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ISLAMIC ART

Author(s): Fatima Žutić
Subject(s): Cultural history, Architecture, Visual Arts, Aesthetics, Islam studies, History of Art
Published by: Fakultet islamskih nauka u Sarajevu
Keywords: Islamic traditional art; the principles of Islamic art; symbolism;

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the definition and basic principles underlying the traditional Islamic art in order to once again draw attention to the necessity of their knowledge and revival. The basic principle from which they originated today known forms of traditional Islamic art is the principle of tawhid, which is the foundation and backbone of origin and leans on all the other principles: beauty, abstractiveness, intellectual nature, mathematical nature, geometry and rhythm, processing materials in accordance with their nature, usability and symbolic expression.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 289-304
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bosnian