The most recognizable geometric motif in Islamic art, collectively known as the "arabesque," stands at the center of a brand new exhibition in Jerusalem this winter. Fittingly located inside the ...

These arabesque patterns were neither specifically Arabian nor religiously symbolic, but they remain a unifying feature of Islamic art. A matrix of intertwining stems, leaves, and flowers form a ...

Jamila Patanwala is a contemporary Islamic artist, based in Dubai. “My work is a reflection of my roots, and I strive to ...

"Most people from the Western world would think that imagery is forbidden in Islam and that Islamic art is fact geometry—the arabesque," says Sabiha Al Khemir. Gina Levay / Redux An authority on ...

Ornamentation in Islamic art — patterned decoration or embellishment ... Throughout the centuries, Islamic geometric patterns and arabesque (Islimi) designs — otherwise known as biomorphic ...

Art has the power to transcend ... icons – like lines from The Lord of the Rings – through an “Islamic” and “Arabesque” lens. Part of his mission is to reclaim the “deeply spiritual ...

Inspired by the arabesques from Islamic art, a form of surface decoration ... Dillenburger and Hansmeyer explain that the Arabesque Wall "heralds a highly differentiated and spatially complex ...

In particular, a love of arabesque - designs based on the intertwined, flowing lines of early Islamic art - had a huge influence on how Matisse (1869-1954) came to think about perspective and ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Arabesque — the swirling, free-flowing, calligraphic line without beginning or end — came into its own as an ornamental design motif in the 1800s after centuries of … New Clark Art ...