Have
you been contemplating doing up your walls with Islamic calligraphy art canvas?
Indeed, animportant new trend in the arena of Arabic calligraphy for saleis the
use of canvas for coloured Islamic calligraphy art. In this kind of art, ayats
from the Holy Quran are printed or painted on high-quality canvas in varied calligraphic
fonts.
Before
we can discuss in detail what exactly Islamic canvas art is, perhaps it would
do good to understand what traditional or classical Islamic wall art actually
is.
In
traditional Islamic wall art, a verse or a small chapter of the Holy Quran is stitched
with a golden thread on a black piece of cloth, usually made of silk or velvet.
The choice of colours draws influence from the hues of the cloth that drapes the
Ka’aba at the Masjid Al-Haram in Makkah. Another kind of traditional or
classical Islamic wall art is that of colourful wall carpets that are mostly
made in Iran, Turkeyand South Asia. These carpets have dense decorations of floral
motifs and elaborate borders even as Arabic calligraphy is diligently stitched
onto the middle portion.
Over
the ages, there have been interesting new experimentations in Islamic wall artwith
the use of new materials and production technologies. For instance, two new trends
have become very popular. First, there are the wall decals. These are big, economically-priced
stickers made of vinyl that can be directly stuck to the surface of the wall, without
any need of framing or driving a nail into the wall. Wall stickers are created
sans colours or backgrounds or other visualdiversions, thus turning the
attention of the onlooker to the calligraphy.
The
other popular category in new, modern Islamic wall art is the one that we
discussed in the beginning of this write-up – that of Islamic calligraphy art on
canvas. Away from the text-only focus
of wall stickers, Islamic canvasart applies the use of colours in order to
highlight the calligraphy and the text, of course.
Colours
are a significant aspect of wall décor. A splash of colours enlivens our living
spaces. The saying ‘add colour to your life’ means that one should live their life with colour,
that is with zeal andoptimism. Many people these days paint the walls of their
homes in a non-white shade. Sometimes, only one wall in a room is painted in a very
bright or a very dark hue so as to add to the contrast to the other three walls
in white.
Islamic calligraphy
artcanvas combines colours and the artistic texture with Arabic calligraphy. This
is to enhance art value of Arabic calligraphy for sale. If you are buying Islamic
calligraphy on canvas, you would come across artworks in a wide variety of colours
–red, blue, green, purple, beige, pink, brown, etc. Sometimes, one shade is applied,
and sometimes many hues are splashed onto the canvas. But colours are only an aid
to attraction, while calligraphy is still the mainstay of Islamic canvas art. Because,
ultimately, when it comes to Islamic
calligraphy art, the message is supreme.
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