Geometry Key to Islamic Art: Dana Awartani
SAUDI GAZETTE
By Mariam Nihal
SAUDIA ARABIA---Dana Awartani, of Palestinian-Saudi heritage, is a Jeddah-based artist who sets an example for her contemporaries with a dynamic approach to Islamic art and the status quo. The artist’s work is a celebration of design, belief and construed sublimity. Her themes revolve around spirituality, sacred geometry, numerology, and the perennial philosophy that traditional arts subscribe to. “I create art that explores themes of spirituality and the ‘sacred’ through the use of historical artistic disciplines. My aim is to educate and raise awareness not only about traditional techniques of art making, which is nearly nonexistent, but also about the beauty of Islam, a side a lot of people don’t know of.” [link]
By Mariam Nihal
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| What Dana really loves about Islamic art, regardless of the diverse practices used in the art form, is that they still share a common law and the idea of symmetry, harmony and structure is always at its core. |
