Moroccan Rugs and Modern Art*bottom 4 images are paintings by Klee, Kandinsky, Rothko, and Klee.To d
Moroccan Rugs and Modern Art*bottom 4 images are paintings by Klee, Kandinsky, Rothko, and Klee.To date, various sources that inspired Modernist art have been discussed, such as Japanese colored woodcuts and katagami, East Asian ceramics and furniture, African sculptures. But Moroccan carpets, an art practiced by women, is still waiting to be recognized in terms of its influence on 20th century European and US modernist painting and avante-garde.The Islamic prohibition on depictions of the human being led among the Maghreb Berbers to a radical form of abstraction and a completely free and in our eyes very modern approach to color and shape.Today, carpets made by Moroccan Berbers or tribes bring to mind Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly or Sean Scully. In the early 20th century, they fascinated artists such as Paul Klee, Vassily Kandinsky, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. A critical inquiry into North African culture and its Islamic influences as well as Moroccan carpets thus takes us to the very root of European avant-garde art. -- source link
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