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You will be introduced to selected works of art and artists as they relate to the curriculum. In your sketchbook:
1. Complete a thumbnail sketch of the work 
2. Document the #, heading, and credit line 
3. Review all provided resources - take notes 
4. Answer the questions completely and with specificity; complete sentences should reveal the question (write legibly or type/print)

​Entries started in class must be completed as homework by the same day/next week

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#7 Two Islamic Tiles

11/20/2017

 
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#1 Tile from a Squinch
Timurid period (1370–1507), 
Present–day Uzbekistan, Samarqand
Stonepaste; carved and glazed approx. 11" x  8"
Metropolitan Museum of Art




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​From http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/20.120.189: Often called muqarnas, or "stalactite," in Arabic, these architectural elements were used to fill squinches to provide a satisfactory transition between a square room and its domed ceiling. Muqarnas, however, were also employed as simple decorative devices to enrich the appearance of soffits, cornices, capitals of columns, and interiors of domes.

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#2 Tile from a mihrab
1322–23 a.d.
Iran
Fritware, underglaze painted approx. 27" x 26"
Metropolitan Museum of Art











From http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/453211: This tile once formed part of a mihrab, or niche, facing Mecca, toward which prayer is directed in mosques. The inscription at its top includes a Qur'anic reference to the mihrab’s function, and provides the date of the tile’s manufacture in the fourteenth century. This surrounds the modeled vine and tendril motif executed with touches of black and turquoise. We must imagine that the interior walls of the building containing this mihrab were once covered in similar tiles, as was common during the Ilkhanid period in Iran.

Watch this video - take notes!

AFTER CAREFULLY REVIEWING THE RESOURCES ASSIGNED ABOVE: Answer the following questions completely and with specificity to the provided resources, personal reflection, and additional research as needed:
  1. a) What is the purpose of a squinch tile? b) What is a mihrab and why is it important in Islamic culture?
  2. What role do patterns play in the Islamic religion? Where do the patterns come from and how are they intended to make those viewing them feel?
  3. Looking at art has often been compared to a "religious experience." Explain your take on this statement as it relates to abstract art (as in the case of Jackson Pollock) and the principle of PATTERN. 

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