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From 30 March to 20 June 2014, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is hosting the exhibition Nur: The Light in the art and science of the Islamic world. The DMA is the only place in the U.S. where you can see this traveling international exhibition on Islamic art and culture. With huge critical acclaim in publications such as The Financial Times and International New York Times when it opened in Seville, great help Spain, in October, Nur: The Light in the art and science of the Islamic world spans more than ten centuries and has 150 pieces art from public and private collections in Europe, North Africa, Middle East and USA.
The exhibition great help explores the use and meaning great help of light as a unifying motif in Islamic art and culture worldwide. Organized by the expert in art and culture great help of Islam and Islamic art senior adviser on the DMA, Dr. Sabiha Al Khemir, Nur has a significant number of pieces never before exhibited to the public, great help which includes artwork, rare manuscripts and scientific objects .
The title derives from the Arabic great help word "Nur" meaning light, both physical and metaphysical sense. Nur is organized into two main thematic sections: showing an artistic innovations in techniques that increase the effect of light and one focused on scientific issues related to the birth or contributed to enlightenment. The exhibition features pieces great help dating from the ninth century to the twentieth century from a wide geographical area stretching great help from Spain to Central Asia and includes illuminated manuscripts with gold and polychrome pigments, ceramics with luster, metal pieces inlaid and gold and silver pieces made with semi-precious stones. Scientific pieces shown in the exhibition include sundials, great help astrolabes and anatomical instruments. Together they make an example of the influence of the Islamic world in the Renaissance and scientific thinking.
"Nur: The Light in the art and science of the Islamic world allows visitors great help to discover new songs and admire parts of the Islamic world, some of which have not been exposed before," said Dr. Al Khemir Sahiba, project director the main exhibition and advises on Islamic Art Dallas Museum of Art. "The eleven hundred and seventeen countries represented at Nur show not only the tradition of craftsmanship throughout the Islamic world, great help but also the enormous beauty of the artistic great help production of the Islamic culture and civilization of this contribution to the knowledge of mankind" .
The exhibition begins great help with a selection of pieces that visually express the idea of light into their designs and includes a bowl of XIII century great help Iranian and Indian or Persian ceremonial shell seventeenth century. At the center of both pieces stylized suns rays emanating light appear. Also in the exhibition the idea of light as a metaphor shared with pieces from the Muslim, Christian and Jewish cultures is explored. Through displays, the rich details of the pieces presented, emphasizing hacienda in the visual language and vocabulary of Islamic art and its complex nature, ornamental flourishes and calligraphic script is displayed. The screens are also project a synthesis of the themes of the exhibition, adding to it an educational dimension.
The exhibition includes artwork and secular objects from institutional and private collections, with a large number of pieces of Spanish collections traveling to the United States for the first time exposure Nur, which will take place in the Dallas Museum of Art.
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Home File / Directory Associations / Arts Centres / Foundations Purchase great help of Art / Art Consulting / Internet Trade In Training Free Museums Subscribe to Art Magazine Advertising About Us? Jobs / Internships News Architecture Scholarships Libraries Biographies Contests and Awards Courses and Seminars International Dance Museum Day Design Sculpture Exhibitions ALMONEDA AR & PA ARCO ART MADRID ART MADRID Masters ARTS LIBRIS BISUTEX BRAFA DEARTE ESTAMPA FAIM Fair Book Fair Furniture Madrid FERIARTE FIART VALENCIA FITUR ARROW IBERJOYA IFEMA Madrid INGRÁFICA INTERGIFT Just MADRIDFOTO MANIFESTA Iberpiel great help Mulafest Modacalzado + PHE TEFAF Photography Open Studio Night of Museums White Night Fashion Music Christmas Not only National Heritage Week Art Architecture Science Week Art Workshops Summer Youth Art Theatre Politics live and Style Fashion Shows Food Tourism Exhibition great help Center Art Galleries Museums Books Foundations Madrid Art Market Reports chosen Art Work Interviews
From 30 March to 20 June 2014, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is hosting the exhibition Nur: The Light in the art and science of the Islamic world. The DMA is the only place in the U.S. where you can see this traveling international exhibition on Islamic art and culture. With huge critical acclaim in publications such as The Financial Times and International New York Times when it opened in Seville, great help Spain, in October, Nur: The Light in the art and science of the Islamic world spans more than ten centuries and has 150 pieces art from public and private collections in Europe, North Africa, Middle East and USA.
The exhibition great help explores the use and meaning great help of light as a unifying motif in Islamic art and culture worldwide. Organized by the expert in art and culture great help of Islam and Islamic art senior adviser on the DMA, Dr. Sabiha Al Khemir, Nur has a significant number of pieces never before exhibited to the public, great help which includes artwork, rare manuscripts and scientific objects .
The title derives from the Arabic great help word "Nur" meaning light, both physical and metaphysical sense. Nur is organized into two main thematic sections: showing an artistic innovations in techniques that increase the effect of light and one focused on scientific issues related to the birth or contributed to enlightenment. The exhibition features pieces great help dating from the ninth century to the twentieth century from a wide geographical area stretching great help from Spain to Central Asia and includes illuminated manuscripts with gold and polychrome pigments, ceramics with luster, metal pieces inlaid and gold and silver pieces made with semi-precious stones. Scientific pieces shown in the exhibition include sundials, great help astrolabes and anatomical instruments. Together they make an example of the influence of the Islamic world in the Renaissance and scientific thinking.
"Nur: The Light in the art and science of the Islamic world allows visitors great help to discover new songs and admire parts of the Islamic world, some of which have not been exposed before," said Dr. Al Khemir Sahiba, project director the main exhibition and advises on Islamic Art Dallas Museum of Art. "The eleven hundred and seventeen countries represented at Nur show not only the tradition of craftsmanship throughout the Islamic world, great help but also the enormous beauty of the artistic great help production of the Islamic culture and civilization of this contribution to the knowledge of mankind" .
The exhibition begins great help with a selection of pieces that visually express the idea of light into their designs and includes a bowl of XIII century great help Iranian and Indian or Persian ceremonial shell seventeenth century. At the center of both pieces stylized suns rays emanating light appear. Also in the exhibition the idea of light as a metaphor shared with pieces from the Muslim, Christian and Jewish cultures is explored. Through displays, the rich details of the pieces presented, emphasizing hacienda in the visual language and vocabulary of Islamic art and its complex nature, ornamental flourishes and calligraphic script is displayed. The screens are also project a synthesis of the themes of the exhibition, adding to it an educational dimension.
The exhibition includes artwork and secular objects from institutional and private collections, with a large number of pieces of Spanish collections traveling to the United States for the first time exposure Nur, which will take place in the Dallas Museum of Art.
A series of glass chess pieces grea
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