Sentences with phrase «islamic aesthetic traditions»

Interested in the repetition and balance of grids, Tabatabai's work plays homage to the structural beauty of geometry, which is deeply rooted in Islamic aesthetic traditions — no doubt an influence for the artist who was born in Iran.

Not exact matches

In fact, Jinchi's mystical aesthetic is traceable to the abstract tradition of qit «a, an Islamic pictorial genre based in the word or verse fragment, and originating in the late 15th century.

The patterning that composes each image is sourced from both Eastern and Western aesthetic traditions: Paleolithic and Neo-Paleolithic fetish objects, West African ceremonial masks, Greek Icon painting, Italian and Northern Renaissance altarpieces, Jewish ceremonial textiles such as Tallit and Torah arks, Islamic prayer rugs, alchemical diagrams and geometric references to mathematical equations.

In creating her works the artist draws inspiration from both established formal principles of Western painting and the rich traditions of Islamic art, however the aesthetic outcome is a new order that is foreign to both.

Shemza's diasporic perspective, as an artist with a deeply studied understanding both of Islamic aesthetic principles and the tradition of geometric abstraction in the West, allowed him to explore modernism through a uniquely doubled prism.