This week I decided to blog about Islamic Art. Unlike Christian art, the art of Islam is much more basic and contains very little. Even when there are people in these paintings, they are very geometric and contain little or no detail. The reason that many of these paintings are so sparse is, obviously, because of their religion. They believe that when you are in a portrait or painting, you are trying to make yourself an idol instead of keeping faith with Allah. Many of these traits have lessened due to the fact of Western culture taking its tole on people's lives. Only the most devout and Orthodox Muslims still take part in this.
I think that this really shows how Muslims are much closer in respect to their religion and take a lot more seriously than many other people do.
"Islamic
Culture." Wikipedia. 24 Feb. 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_culture
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