(WCA) Review

Review

Can you answer the following questions?

1. What are the guidelines and aesthetic principles of Islamic art?
2. What are some of the major principles of Islamic architecture?
3. What is the relationship between geometry and Islamic art?
4. What is the Qur'an? How does it influence Muslim culture?
5. What does it have to say about images? How does this affect the artist?
6. How have Muslim artists learned to express themselves while remaining true to their faith?
7. How has the development of calligraphy affected the decorative arts?
8. In what ways does Islamic art and architecture show diversity and what are the reasons for this?
9. What were the two major roles of the written word in the Islamic culture?
10. Why were Islamic textiles an important means of disseminating artistic styles and techniques?
11. How do Muslim manuscript pages resemble carpets and why?

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