The Origin and Development of Arabic Case Art

Arab pattern art originates from intention and emotion, not reason and intuition. Medieval Arab philosophers believed that perception was the highest ability for human beings to know Allah and the world. In other words, the creative method of Muslim artists is through intention rather than perception, because Muslim artists are full of worship and belief in Allah, which is beyond feelings.

In the Arab pattern art, whether the Arab calligraphy art gradually changes into ornamentation, geometry or plant shape, it has symbolic significance, which is the acme of Islamic aesthetics. Lines and colors in Arabic pattern art are important components, from which various geometric shapes have evolved. For example, lines in calligraphy are geometric figures in appearance. But in a sense, it is connected with the concept that "God is the only one". That is, everything in the world originated from point, line and surface, and returned to point, line and surface. Radial geometry is discrete and aggregated, and its expression stems from the fact that "uniqueness" belongs to "uniqueness", which is the thought of Allah. The geometric patterns in Arabic decorative arts come from basic geometric shapes such as triangles, quadrangles and pentagons. These geometric figures change circularly, forming all kinds of mysterious and complicated figures, from which Muslims feel the existence of the circulating world and the creator, think about the gyration and change of life, and realize the beauty of Allah and the magic without beginning or end, thus generating awe of Allah, enjoying beauty and being edified by thoughts.

Under the influence of Islamic culture, Muslim artists have also enriched and developed the artistic expressions of metal craft, wood craft, stone craft, ivory craft, glass craft, textile and carpet craft in the same way, and together with other daily handicrafts and architectural decoration art, * * * has become a huge system of Arab pattern art, among which architecture is one of the most enduring artistic forms and the general representative of Arab decoration art, which is gathered in the decoration achievements of mosques. For the Islamic world, the highest expression of art is the decoration of religious buildings. Although the decoration of Islamic religious buildings is mysterious and profound, magnificent and colorful, as the Arab pattern art that expresses Islamic religion, its modeling means and expression methods are still unique.