Ideas & Culture · 622 · Turning point
Rise of Islam
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The theological preference for non-figural imagery in sacred contexts redirected Islamic art toward abstract geometry, calligraphy, and pattern, developing a vocabulary of extraordinary sophistication. Islamic geometric ornament would eventually influence European modernism, from Klee and Escher to contemporary Op Art.
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