Arabesque
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Arabesque-like flourishes in Round hand script. George Bickham's Round Hand script, from The Universal Penman, c. 1740-1741.
Savonnerie carpet after Charles Le Brun for the Grande Galerie of the Louvre, displaying arabesque elements in the border ...
Arabesque art encapsulates two modes which act as a reflection of unity arising from diversity. The first mode recalls the values of Islam that govern the order of the world.
Arabesque
The Arabesque, one of aspects of Islamic art, usually found decorating the walls of mosques, is an elaborate application of repeating geometric forms that often echo the forms of plants and animals.
arabesque In Islamic art, the elaborative application of repeating geometric forms of plants and animals; style "in the Arab fashion." ...
arabesque Ornament or surface decoration with intricate curves and flowing lines based on plant forms.
arabesque - A complicated, intertwined, flowing design of stylized floral and plant motifs loosely based on Arabian decoration.
(pr. A-rÉ™-besk)
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Arabesque
Linear decoration that is interlacing and carved or painted on panels. Subjects are botanic, animal and human figures. Credit: Kimberley Reynolds, "Illustrated Dictionary of Art Terms"
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Arabesques of curling lobes and cusps characterized earlier rococo design. For variety here, the pale tulipwood veneer of the background is arranged in fan shapes within the dark scrolls of purple-wood.
An Arabesque design, based on an infinite leaf-scroll pattern that, by division of elements (stem, leaf, blossom) generates new variations of the same original elements, ...
arabesque - gracefully curving linear quality; sinuous, spiraling or undulating line; design of interlacing lines depicting flowers, vases, fruits, foliage and sometimes figures or animals * ...
The subjects of the intarsiatori are generally arabesques or panels with elaborate perspectives, either of buildings or cupboards with different articles upon the shelves seen through half-open doors, ...
The feeling for the arabesque in place of volume, for pictorial surface per se in place of illusionistic depth, for the intrinsic value of point and line, of colour and rhythm in place of their representational value, ...
Arabic/Persian calligraphy is associated with geometric Islamic art (arabesque) on the walls and ceilings of mosques as well as on the page.
In purely decorative work they used foliage, arabesques and other motifs in the style of the Renaissance (ceilings in Hampton Court, rood screen and carved wooden stalls in King's College chapel, Cambridge, 1532-1536) but the real spirit of this art ...
Complex geometric designs, as well as intricate patterns of vegetal ornament (such as the arabesque), create the impression of unending repetition, which is believed by some to be an inducement to contemplate the infinite nature of God.
A decorative style similar to Arabesque only more bizarre, deriving from a reference to "grottos" and those plants and animals though to inhabit such places.
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Focus of the composition is the circular, white form in the center - the discus of the title - surrounded and intersected by multicolored arabesques, which seems to converge on an expansive, rock-like shape.
The baroque contortions of the arabesques and garlands have become all-invading and are now the true subject of the picture. This essentially graphic theme would appear in all of Matisse's work.
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