DOORWAY TO ARABESQUE AND MORESQUE DESIGN

AS ISLAM SPREAD ALL AROUND THE WORLD ISLAMIC ARTISTS COMBINED THEIR PENCHANT FOR GEOMETRY WITH EXISTING TRADITIONS,CREATING A NEW AND DISTINCTIVE ART

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS UNIQUE ART , IN PART MAY HAVE BEEN DUE TO THE DISCOURAGEMENT OF IMAGES IN ISLAM ON BASIS THAT IT COULD LEAD TO IDOLATRY

ISLAMIC ARTISTS DEVELOPED COMPLEX GEOMETRIC DECORATIVE DESIGNS ,AS WELL AS INTRICATE PATTERNS OF VEGETAL ORNAMENT AND CALLIGRAPHY (SUCH AS MORESQUE AND ARABESQUE)

EVEN THOUGH THE GEOMETRIC PATTERNS CONSISTED OF, OR WERE GENERATED FROM SUCH SIMPLE FORMS AS THE CIRCLE AND THE SQUARE ,THEY WERE COMBINED ,DUPLICATED ,INTERLACED AND ARRANGED IN INTRICATE COMBINATIONS BECOMING ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF ISLAMIC ART

THESE COMPLEX PATTERNS SEEM TO EMBODY A REFUSAL TO ADHERE STRICTLY TO THE RULES OF GEOMETRY AS MATTER OF FACT GEOMETRIC ORNAMENTATION IN ISLAMIC ART SUGGESTS REMARKABLE AMOUNT OF FREEDOM IN ITS REPETITION AND COMPLEXITY IT OFFERS THE POSSIBILITY OF INFINITE GROUTH AND ACCOMODATE THE INCORPORATION OF OTHER TYPES OF ORNAMENTATION