The Genesis of Plant Artifacts in the Art of Islam (Special decoration to the Arabesque and Khatay designs)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 department of architecture-faculty of art and architecture -payame noor university-parand branch-Tehran province-iran.

2 department of art, payame noor university, east-Tehran branch

Abstract

Islamic art is one of the glorious periods of art history and one of the most valuable human achievements in artistic arts and includes various types of art such as architecture, calligraphy, painting, ceramics, and the like. In Islamic art, repetitive elements There are a lot of things like: using unrealistic geometric or graphic designs of flowers and plants known as Slavic. Slavic motifs in Islamic art are often used as a symbol of the infinite nature that is God's creature, as well as the intention of not representing and accurately immitting nature as usually mentions humility of artists who believed that the creation of perfection was only God's special. The purpose of this study was first to study the emergence of vegetable motifs in the art of early Islam and their application, and at a later stage how symbols were abstracted, as well as the extent to which these motifs were influenced from the previous era and their effect On contemporary times. In this research, which is descriptive-analytical, and the information is also arranged in the library and field-based way, the findings show that the Slavic motifs were first introduced by the prevalence of mankind's imaging of Islam at the dawn of Islam, Sassanid art and, gradually, based on the special teachings of that era, abstract and abstract forms that influenced the contemporary period

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