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SHORT REVIEW OF SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ISLAMIC ARTS

“Islamic arts” represent historic term which indicates specific form of creative expression sprang out in the region of Islamic countries.

Islamic arts have not only its recognizable appearance and aesthetics, but also the function within a society. With its originality, these arts separated from certain historical flows of art, first from the art of politeistic cultures, but later from Christian iconic art.

We would say that Islamic arts, has developed its artistic recognition on the abstract and decorative, which was yet again submissive to symbolic interpretation.

Within this frame, which however had touching points with aesthetics of other cultures, an entire universe of creative expression developed, which in the Islamic arts was mostly expressed through so-called usable art and the art of ennobling of the living space. Therefore, what a man uses should be beautiful, what in itself includes a large spectrum of objects and things of material culture, from architecture via industrial design to the written word.

Islamic artist has from its most spread and noblest form of the human communication, letter, developed the high and leading art of Islam. In such way, the arts could be not only viewed, narrated and suggestively interpreted, but literally read, what opened up a new dimension of treating and interpreting the artistic work.

Islamic artists always aspired to decorate even those objects that, in some other culture would not be aesthetic challenge. Thus, political documents were decorated and in such way, as if they were the prime artistic pieces. Ottoman’s diplomatic correspondence best speaks about such declaration.

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