Visual Thinking Strategy exploration of Islamic arts The basic information and links for further information can be found under the notes tab on each slide What do you see What do you notice What is going on ID: 1018935
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1. Session 1The following four slides are for use with the Visual Thinking Strategy exploration of Islamic arts. The basic information and links for further information can be found under the notes tab on each slide.
2. What do you see? What do you notice? What is going on?
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6. Session 2-3The Mosque
7. The Sultan Ahmed Mosque The Baiturrahman Mosque
8. What similarities and differences do you find?
9. Great Mosque of Samarra, IraqYear 851Spiral minaret is 171 feet tallWas connected to the mosque by a bridge
10. Great Mosque of Xi’anThe largest mosque in ChinaKnown as the Great Eastern MosqueDecorated with Chinese and Arabic calligraphyFeatures Chinese pagodas
11. Session 4Geometric and Arabesque Design
12. Mosque Decoration
13. Geometric Design and TessellationsStar and Hexagonal Tile PatternLate 13th-14th centuryProbably from Iran
14. Symmetry and the Arabesque
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16. Session 5Calligraphy
17. Old English calligraphyJapanese calligraphyChinese calligraphy
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19. Arabic Calligraphy as an Art FormCalligraphy, from the Greek words kallos (beauty) and graphos (writing), refers to the harmonious proportion of both letters within a word and words on a page. While some of the best examples of calligraphic writing make this art form appear effortless, each letter and diacritical mark is the result of painstaking measurements and multiple strokes.Calligraphy appears on both religious and secular objects in virtually every medium—architecture, paper, ceramics, carpets, glass, jewelry, woodcarving, and metalwork.From The MetMuseum resource Art of the Islamic World, Unit 2: Arabic Script and the Art of Calligraphy
20. Islamic Calligraphy Examples