This course introduces students to the study of traditional Islamic art in two dimensions. The first dimension focuses on the basic concepts of the sacred geometry that is the basis of traditional Islamic art. The second consists of a practical art project in biomorphic in the first dimension, students study the underlying principles of sacred geometry and practice the production of those geometric patterns that recur in traditional Islamic art forms. This is done, in part, through the repeated drawing of circles from which the traditional Islamic geometric patterns emerge. In the second module, more complex patterns will be used to create a work combining all three representations of Islamic art – geometry, calligraphy, and biomorphic motifs.
