Arts and Crafts

Associated with the ancient Egyptian arts such as sculpture, painting, sculpture, closely related to architecture. None of them were independent art, but were used to decorate temples and tombs. This has greatly affected the features of these arts, their themes, and ways to use them. And when depicting ancient Egyptian artist hereafter as Eternity and eternal pleasure, this concept was a source of inspiration for his work. His objective was not to emphasize the beauty of the art form and prominent to the viewer, because these works of art were in the tombs are closed. The ancient Egyptian artist deep perception of life, he tried to portray in symbolic forms reflect the principles and values prevailing in society; such as the gods and the king and the rights of women and the family, etc..
When Alexander the Great came to Egypt, Egyptian art blended with Greek art and the adoption of methods of color and movement. Was also influenced by the themes of Greek mythology. The human body had a big role in that art. Portraits and sculptures portrayed the features of the human body in great detail; reflect the movement of the body through Urdu wavy, in a serious attempt to simulate reality. And continued that method to the first century AD, known as Hellenistic art.
While interest in simulating the movements of Hellenistic art, colors, and features of nature, the Muslim artist was quite far from the tradition of nature; as this is not the object or subject of interest. Instead, it focused on Muslim artist shapes, animal and plant engineering; giving the impression that the portrayal of humans was forbidden in Islam, although there is no explicit text of the Koran. Its strong aesthetic appeal transcends distances in time and space, language, culture and creed. Among the features of that art, were abstract and consistency and try to adopt the mathematical rules that govern the universe; this, besides being a year, global and inclusive: as it came during the era of brief immersion in tidal Arab vast areas and many cultures, from India to the Atlantic Ocean. Thus it was natural that art to accommodate diverse cultures of these great civilizations; among which is the ancient Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Phoenician, and the Sassanid Algartajip, Greek and Byzantine. Have merged these diverse cultures in the artistic and cultural wealth and the nations that embraced Islam. And could be included techniques that prevailed in the Muslim countries culturally, historically under the method of the Umayyad, Abbasid, and the method which has been associated by the Abbasid state in 750 AD. And weakened when the Abbasid Caliphate, there were regional styles; patterns such as the Persian, Fatimid, Mamluk, Ottoman and Indian.