Islamic Artwork Analysis

The Han dynasty (25-220 CE) exhibit outside in the corridor demonstrated remarkable uniformity. Common pottery such as models of houses and farm structures, were created as funerary objects for burials. The Han period has deeply shaped and cast its roots in contemporary burial rituals. Today,

One of the ancient types of glaze for ceramics is called Nuka Glaze. In Ancient Japan the empty rice husk were burned and the ashes from the husk mixed with cobalt or iron into glaze. The ash is mainly silica and as previously said is the main ingredient of glaze. The pots was often dipped in cobalt or iron powder to give the pot a blue or brown color. The process of nuka glazing can be done with wood and depending on the recipe you use can be from cone ten to cone twelve.

Archaeological ceramics is the most prolific relics that have been studied to expand our understanding of past cultures. Archaeological study based on the investigation of pottery shape, color, decoration style and materials that can give a plenty of information regarding typological and invaluable information, dating and provenance. The study of the mineralogical properties of ceramics plays a vital role to understand the previous technologies. However, the manufacturing techniques, cleaning of the clays, adding of the temper, and shaping of objects, firing atmosphere can significantly change the mineralogical composition of the ceramic objects. In addition to this, the life cycle of ceramics and its usage and post-depositional modifications are also important and can help to change the mineralogical constitution. Although, nowadays

From the 13th century, Chinese pictorial designs, such as flying cranes, dragons and lotus flowers also started to appear in the ceramic productions of the Near-East, especially in Syria and Egypt.

Fritware is a form of pottery where frit is added to the clay in order to lower the necessary fusion temperature. This version of ceramics was popular in İznik, Turkey, the leading producer of decorative tiles during the Ottoman Empire. Underglaze is a technique in which decoration is painted to the piece before it is glazed. However, underglaze uses certain pigments derived from oxides that fuse with the glaze, thus restricting the color palette. The original color found to work by the Chinese was cobalt blue, and this is present on the Ottoman tile. In addition, the İznik factories used turquoise, purple, green and red in later years. Because this tile is from the earlier part

Media: These soldier statues from the first emperor of China’s tomb are made with terra cotta and were once brightly painted. An old Chinese village, Jingdezhen is famous for its long history in producing pottery. It is as a result of this place, which still exists today, that we know it can take at least thirty stages to both create clay from scratch and build an artwork from it.

This last winter I was lucky enough to have the chance to spend more than a month in New South Wales, Australia. All around the cities in New South Wales I saw many pieces of art that I found absolutely fascinating. All of these paintings seemed so simple, but the more I learned about them I realized there was lot of history in these paintings. The Style I became most interested in was the Western Desert Art, how it is evolving, the many emerging styles of it, and its many collections. This art movement emerged from the Aboriginal settlement of Papunya in the Northern Territory of Australia in the early 1970s. In 1971 the art teacher posted in the village Geoffrey Bardon, encouraged some of his traditional artists to paint a blank wall. This

In the 13th and 14th centuries in northwestern Iran, a style of decorative arts emerged under the rule of the Ilkhanid Dynasty- a branch of the Mongol Dynasty led by Hulegu or “Il Khan.” (metmuseum.org) The artistic traditions of the Mongols quickly assimilated into the Islamic lands as a result of the cross fertilization of trade amongst craftsmen and artists along trade routes, thus breeding the production of a new style of decorative art that combined Eastern Asian motifs with Western Asian colors and pattern work. Islamic art styles expanded during the rule of the Ilkhanid Dynasty, and included objects ranging from ceramics, textiles, jewelry and manuscripts. The intricate bowl presently exhibited at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, CA, was produced in approximately 1275-1400 in the Kashan region of Iran, and inhabits the cross-cultural style that flourished during the Ilkhanid period. It measures 4 inches in diameter by 8 inches in height, and most likely functioned as a decorative art object for display purposes and not as a utilitarian item for every day use. (asianart.org) The demure and dainty bowl is visually powerful

Early Christian art had a rough start. It started off not being wanted because it worshiped idols and that was frowned upon in the early days. Although, as time went on and Christians started realizing the benefits that art had at conveying their beliefs. The earliest Christian art occurred in the catacombs, which were underground tombs under the city and they often depicted biblical symbols like Noah’s ark. Architecture also grew during this time, as people got more accepting of this culture things started picking up. Art became in demand and so did architecture. Before the spike happened, early Christians didn’t have any designated places to worship and as soon as it became more accepted that changed. Early Christian churches often mimicked roman work because it was so successful. An example of this was Old St. Peter. Architecture and art weren’t the only thing early Christians used to push Christianity into the mainstream, music also played a role in the development Christianity. “Early Christian music prohibited instrumental accompaniment of any kind” (Benton and Diyannni 185). This was mainly because it wasn’t considered religious it was considered un religious. As time progressed this was eventually overturned. Early Christian music often used harps as a background for the scriptures.

The West has three distinct categories for working with pottery. All three types are working with ceramic material at various temperature, with a fire in a kiln. The three categories are earthenware (600°C- 1,000°C), stoneware (1,100°C-1,250°C), and porcelain (+1,300°C), in which depending on the type of material can be melt at various high temperatures. Each material has it’s own temperature that the kiln needs to be at, so the artisan can work with the material.

After the discovery of luster painting, Islamic pottery began to see even new techniques and innovations during the Middle Islamic Period from the eleventh to the fifteenth century. This time period saw an increase in Islamic art production and new pottery techniques because of the political changes brought about by the invasion of Turkish tribes and the expansion of the Muslim faith (Cooper 1972). Many significant advancements in pottery production occurred because of the rediscovery of an artificial clay mixture called faience. Faience was “first employed by the Pharoanic Egyptians [and] is a man-made mixture of potash, quartz, and white clay” (Jenkins 1983, p.13). Faience was such a groundbreaking non clay mixture for Islamic potters because

Having read the comparison between the Bible and the Qur'an as per Iliad, my project is a mosaic piece that shows a single supreme being that is God who in this case is represented as a towering figure and seated beyond the clouds signifying that he is the same being worshiped by both the religions albeit in different ways and with slight variations in how his character is portrayed. Illiad shows that the beliefs have significant differences ("Reading The Qur'an and The Bible Side by Side- Differing Creation Accounts").

I find it very interesting how there’s a parallel between the slow food movement and pottery. Food is considered the “right to pleasure”. The slow movement opposes fast food in society and instead promotes enjoyment of traditional food. An approach to pottery making resuscitating antique technologies.This is the notion of finding materials to work with local materials such as food and clay materials. In addition to resuscitating antique technologies, the notion of good clay is a very important aspect for potters. Good clay is plastic, has ease of wheel-forming, or fring without warpig,slumping or bloating. Wood fire potters are concerned with how clay interacts with wood flame and ash. As a result of good clay, glaze, and firing techniques,

Trade with China at the end of the eighth century brought a large amount of imported stoneware and porcelain pottery vessels into the Abbasid Court at Baghdad. This influx of Chinese pottery inspired much imitation from the Islamic potters in Baghdad. Therefore, this Arab city became the center of Islamic culture in the ninth century, and here the first schools of ceramic making were established (Meri 2006). The earliest products of the Baghdad kilns are obvious attempts to imitate Chinese Tang porcelains, but soon the Muslim potters developed a taste of their own, and, although always inspired by Chinese examples, began to produce molded and multicolored wares of great beauty and originality (Lane

In more recent years, the ivory used has expanded in China (Gao & Clark, 24). The most common way ivory is used in China is for carving as a traditional art (Gao & Clark, 24). Ivory carving wasn’t well-known in the Chinese culture until later in the 1950’s, when ivory factories started establishing (Gao &Clark, 24). Afterwards, ivory carving became a major foreign-currency-generating industry in cities around China (Gao & Clark, 24). The industries failed a little after the Cultural Revolution that occurred in the years between 1966 and 1976 (Gao & Clark, 24). Ivory is used in many things but the most common way the Chinese culture uses it is by the following: figuring, ornaments, scholar’s articles, and vessels (Gao & Clark, 24).