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Arts in Muslim South

This document summarizes Islamic arts from Muslim South. It discusses three main topics: woodcrafts, brass art, and symmetry art. For woodcrafts, it notes that wood, brass, and cloth are primarily used materials in Islamic art. It then describes several examples of Maranao brass art like containers and trays. For brass art, it discusses how brass is used for cooking pots and how aesthetic intention is characteristic. It also explains "okir or okil" geometric designs found in textiles, woodwork, and metalwork of the region. Finally, it defines symmetry art as having matching designs on both sides of a center line, and provides examples of how symmetry creates balance in compositions.

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Arts in Muslim South

This document summarizes Islamic arts from Muslim South. It discusses three main topics: woodcrafts, brass art, and symmetry art. For woodcrafts, it notes that wood, brass, and cloth are primarily used materials in Islamic art. It then describes several examples of Maranao brass art like containers and trays. For brass art, it discusses how brass is used for cooking pots and how aesthetic intention is characteristic. It also explains "okir or okil" geometric designs found in textiles, woodwork, and metalwork of the region. Finally, it defines symmetry art as having matching designs on both sides of a center line, and provides examples of how symmetry creates balance in compositions.

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Islamic Arts

(Arts in Muslim
South)
Group 8 Annavic Roa
MY TOPICS

AREWOODCRA
FTS

OKIR OR OKIL

SYMMETRY ART
WOODCRAFTS
The materials primarily used in Muslim or Islamic Art
are WOOD, BRASS and CLOTH, but no less
important are silver, gold, iron, horn, ivory, leather
and matting materials.

Best examples of Maranao Brass Art are


the GABU and GADUA, LANGGUAY, KENDI,
SALAPA and LUTUAN, and TALAM
Examples of Maranao Brass Art;
Gabu and Gadua a jar like containers with corner
REMINDERS
We need to remember and
follow these simple rules
during class.
ONLINE
CLASSROOM ETIQUETTE
in our online classroom.
We need to practice proper
behavior and good manners

LANGGUAY

a coverless
containers with
decorated rims

KENDI
an ornamented tea pot
SALAPA and LUTUAN both is
associated with betel-nut chewing
common among Muslim Filipinos
TALAM
The gourgeous tray often used as
modern table top or wall
decoration

BRASS ART
Brass Art seems to take the place of
pottery for the Maranao for even their
cooking pot, The KODON is made of
brass. Aesthetic and Artistic intention
is always a characteristic of the
Muslim Art.

OKIR OR OKIL
This is the term that represents the geometric
and flowing designs, often based on an
elaborate leaf and vine pattern and folk
motiff which are usually found in Maranao,
Maguindanao and some other places in
Southern Mindanao and as far Southeast Asia.
The OKIR A DATU is the ornamental design
for men and OKIR A BAY is that for women.
An ancient proof of okir’s style of
flowering symbols is TOROGAN, an
ancestral home of the highest title
holder of Maranao Village. It is a
symbol of power and prestige usually
adorned during festivities
Its prominent part is the PANOLONG, a carved
beam that protrudes in the front of the house and
styled with okir motif. The okir design is found
woven or printed in textiles, carved into wooden
cemetery markers and wooden boxes , and it can
also be found etched into knife or sword blades and
handles, cast or etched into various brass and silver
objects.
Variations of the okir involves the use
og NAGA and SERPENT motif.
Maranao instruments
usually are styled with okir. A more
prominent variation is the
SARIMANOK, a chicken-like figure
thatcarries a fish in its beak.
SYMMETRY ARTS
Means that the work of art is the same on one side
as the other , a mirror image of itself, on both sides
of a center line.
In art symmetry is often ued as an aesthetic
element. It is often used, to mean akind of balance
in which the corresponding parts are not
necessarily alike but only similar. Generally is a
balance between various parts of an object.
There a several examples of symmetry in
painting.
THE ARRANGEMENT OF
ELEMENTS IN A COMPOSITION
CAN CREATE BALANCE OR
IMBALANCE. THREE KEY WAYS TO
CREATE BALANCE
ARE THROUGH SYMMETRY,
ASYMMETRY AND RADIAL
SYMMETRY.

-END
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