Having my mind blown visiting the Alhambra palace. It’s sensory overload. How come so much of the art is geometric? Was it a fashion spawned by discovery or invention or what?
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Older muslims believed that art depicting real sentient things was encouraging idolatry. It was also just taboo to mimic God’s work in general.
So what beauty did humans create themselves?
Geometry. The art of shapes. Abstract objects unfounded in nature that we’ve given utility.
Also: Writing. Another inherently human invention, that’s proven itself to be quite the beautiful thing.
Kufic calligraphy, and geometric tiling was an easy way to create beauty from human order; it was as close to novel as we could get.
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