scholarly journals The aesthetics of artistic expression in productions of Islamic Photography School

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (106) ◽  
pp. 324-343
Author(s):  
م.د. اخلاص عبد القادر طاهر
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Islamic Art ◽  
Creative Achievement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Visual Text ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Intellectual Level

The research highlights on the aesthetics of artistic expression in the products of the Islamic photography schools to highlight the most important aesthetic and aesthetic values ​​by analyzing selected models of those products that the Islamic photographer was able to employ the various life data and its multiple vocabulary to create visual spaces that are characterized by balanced symmetry. He distributes his vocabulary and characters and the contents of his photographic art through a visual text that gave special attention to these productions. These products came as a clear, articulated and expressive view of themselves, inspired by their ideas and implications from the social life of Islamic society. The current research aims to reveal the aesthetics of artistic expression in the productions of Islamic photography schools. Therefore, the researcher adopted the analytical descriptive approach in building the research procedures as it is the most scientific method suitable to achieve the objective of the current research. The current research community consists products of Islamic art photography schools in (Iraqi - Mughal in Iran - Timorese school - Ottoman Turkish photography) dating back to middle Ages. Since the research community is very broad, the researcher resorted to selecting an objective sample consisting of (4) models: 1- Baghdad School  (Al-Barqa'a Center- The Hajj procession) 2- (zal under Roodbe's balcony) Shahnama Ferdosi 3- Elephant's Hour. The main conclusions are: pictures expressed a symbolic message, reflected the customs and traditions of those times. 2 - Misrepresentation was present by drawing shapes and exaggerating disposing of proportions contrary to the truth. 3 - coordinating the constituent components of the pictures and creating balanced and unified relationships with each other to achieve aesthetic expression. The most important conclusions are: 1- The value of the creative achievement, the aesthetic and artistic inventory, and the power of expression in Islamic art through their expressions of the soul of society, showing the intellectual level of the Muslim artist. 2- The Islamic decoration was used in the products of Islamic schools to exalt the material existence based on the aesthetic shape which represented by the centrality of man.

The Relics of Saint Petroc

Antiquity ◽  
1939 ◽  
Vol 13 (52) ◽  
pp. 403-415
Author(s):  
Canon G. H. Doble
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Middle Ages

The incident of the theft of the relics of Saint Petroc from his shrine in Bodmin priory church by a canon of Bodmin in 1177, their removal to the abbey of St.-Méen in Brittany, and their subsequent restoration owing to the vigorous action of Henry 11, is well-known. It is briefly referred to by the chroniclers Roger of Hoveden and Benedict of Peterborough. The long Vita Petroci in the newly discovered Gotha MS.; however, contains a full and detailed account of the whole affair by a contemporary writer of considerable literarypowers. It abounds in lifelike touches, and is one of the most interesting glimpses into the social life of the Middle Ages which we possess. It is here printed for the first time.

scholarly journals Aesthetic Values the Color Blue Prevailing on the Ottoman Ceramic Artifacts: A Study in Islamic Heritage and the Arts

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Rehab Elnahas
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Blue Color ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Islamic Art ◽  
Color Aesthetics ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Aesthetic Values

The blue color on the Ottoman ceramic artifacts can be studied from the perspectives of different sciences: in terms of color aesthetics, which is a kind of philosophy of beauty, or as part of the science of photography and graphics. Additionally, for some communities the importance of this color lies at the heart of anthropology, but it is also at the core Islamic art and archeology. Blue is one of the original colors that humans have known since ancient times. It is associated with the elements of nature as it symbolizes the sky, sea, and serenity. This color is especially important in popular beliefs as we find a lot of amulets that use the blue color especially those which are believed to avert the eyes of envy. The blue color has appeared on many of the Ottoman Islamic artifacts, especially ceramic artifacts, since ceramics were among the most used materials in life which expressed the social and intellectual life of both artists and manufacturers. The research will analyze the importance of the blue color of ceramic artifacts in the study of heritage and archaeology and how these blue decorative elements on these ceramic pieces relate to social life. 

Tumultus Et Rumor in Sinagoga: An Aspect of Social Life of Provençal Jews in the Middle Ages

AJS Review ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 227-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Shatzmiller
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Southern France ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Middle Ages

It is impossible to discuss the social life or the organization of the Jewish community in the Middle Ages without noting the fact that the synagogue was its center. In many cases the synagogue was the only building owned by the community as such, the only institution that actually was at everyone's disposal. It did not always happen to be a special kind of building constructed or dedicated to the worship of God: sometimes one of the city's houses, or an apartment, or a room, would serve as a synagogue. Thus we hear that in the town of Manosque in Southern France—the location of our episodes—there was in the year 1311 a synagogue located at what had formerly been the house of Macip, one of the community's members.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the Aesthetic Characteristics of “Yunyaoji”

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Qian
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Regular Structure ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Characteristics

As the representative of folk Ci, “Yunyaoji” has its unique beauty in content, artistic expression and structure. It is not only the epitome and reflection of the beauty of social life of the ordinary class at that time, but also the plain Lyric way and the artistic technique of gentle and implicit emotional expression, which makes the CI return and integrate into the ordinary people's life and become a success For people's entertainment and appreciation of the content, and has a groping style, vaguely regular structure of the beauty of the word, but also makes the aesthetic characteristics of the word itself more realm. At the same time, the analysis and discussion of the aesthetic characteristics of “Yunyaoji” is not only a kind of understanding and return of beauty today, but also are examination and tracing of the aesthetic characteristics of Chinese excellent culture.

The Outstanding Biographies of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Spain

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo García Sanjuán
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
European Regions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Graphic Elements ◽  
Historical Periods

Over the last decade, new questions have emerged with regard to the complex temporal patterns often seen in Iberian prehistoric monuments. A number of megalithic chamber tombs, menhirs, stelae or rock-art panels have been found to show that, as occurs in other European regions, their lives were not restricted to the period of time in which they were built or manufactured, but, on the contrary, they extended well into later (or even much later) prehistoric, protohistoric and subsequent historical periods. Evidence for this includes successive physical transformations through the incorporation of new architectural or graphic elements and/or through the reorganization of previously existing ones, the accumulation of mnemonic artefacts, as well as layouts and orientations in special landscape settings (Díaz-Guardamino 2006; 2008; 2010; 2012; 2015; García Sanjuán et al. 2008; Lillios 2008; García Sanjuán and Wheatley 2010; García Sanjuán 2011; Aranda Jiménez 2013). In this chapter we attempt to show that some prehistoric monuments built or made in the Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age played active roles in the social life of communities considered ‘protohistoric’ or ‘historic’. To achieve this, we first examine a series of monuments with ‘outstanding biographies’, which document single reuse or repeated and/or persistent use during the Iron Age, Antiquity and/or the Middle Age. We will then try to establish some conclusions in relation to the social practices that may have led to such uses or reuses of prehistoric monuments that were thousands of years old by the time they were reinterpreted, rediscovered or reinvented. Although this is a subject that has only been seriously researched over the last decade, the list of Iberian megalithic chamber tombs used in the Iron Age, in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages is now quite substantial (e.g. Caamaño Gesto and Criado Boado 1992; Lorrio Alvarado and Montero Ruiz 2004; García Sanjuán 2005a; 2005b; García Sanjuán et al. 2008; Álvarez Vidaurre 2011). There is varied evidence supporting these cases of reuse.

ISLAM AND TOLERANCE: LOOKING THROUGH THE PRISM OF CENTURIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Abror A. Odilov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The Social ◽  
Index Terms ◽  
The Middle Ages

This article analyzes issues related to religious life in Central Asia, specifically in the Movarounnahr and Khorasan regions, from the early Middle Ages to the Mongol invasion. The author describes the spread of Islam in the region, its causes, the fact that the principle of tolerance towards other religions in Islam has become an integral part of the social life. It is also the theory that the land of Movarounnahr was the place where tolerance emerged in the Middle Ages Index Terms: Islam, religion, Movarounnahr, Khorasan, tolerance, Christianity, Judaism, territory, other religions, mosque, church, temple

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