Featured Muslim Art?

Can anyone tell me about this piece?


Thanks

 

It appears to be a colored, hand inked etching. Looks to me like student work.
Suggest you show a close up of the artist's signature. The plate has been cut around the edges to make the uneven border.

 

It's an illustration for the story of 1001 éjszaka (1001 nights), Arabian Nights.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Kon...PqBygQ_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1454&bih=692&dpr=1.1

https://galeriasavaria.hu/en/termekek/reszletek/kep-grafika/2596950/Kondor-Lajos-1001-EJSZAKA/

 

I doubt a muslim has ever been within 50 feet of that debauchery.....

and admit it !

 

This is Muslim art, '99 Names of Allah', by M. Ghazanfer Ali:

 

I've read that Muslim art is generally opposed to representational imagery. Patterning and calligraphy are what you mostly see.

That said, the Mughal empire was Islamic and they produced a lot of representational art.

Certainly the Taliban are iconoclastic.

 

Being an artist of a certain religion and producing religious art are two different things.
It is like calling Rembrandt paintings Calvinist Protestant art, or Vermeer paintings Roman Catholic art.

 

I'm not sure that this is in reference to specifically religious art. For a fundamentalist believer is there a differentiation between religious and secular art? How iconoclastic Islamic art is, is debatable - it likely depends on the depth of belief of the artist, and the milieu in which they find themselves working. There are many who take a better-safe-than-sorry attitude.

Nor is this specifically an Islamic issue. Any religion you can name will have its fundamentalists whose beliefs extend into iconoclasm. The question is: how influential are they in the larger cultural context?

I once had this picture posted in my workspace:


A fundamentalist Christian working in the same office took one look at it and snorted, "Pornography!"

 

https://fr.artprice.com/artiste/131452/lajos-kondor

possibly one of the "Arabian nights"

 

Rousseau 'Le Douanier' is not pornography.

 

it is to someone with a closed mind........!!

or

a clothed mind.......

 

I think not the fundamentalists, but those on the opposite end of the spectrum, would be filing formal Title IX grievances if you had it on your wall or cubicle here in today's US workplace. BTW, love how there is just enough of the serpent slithering away to suggest he had wiled the Eve figure moments before.