Edward Mariyani-Squire, thanks so much for posting this clip! I once got to see an exhibit of art and calligraphy from Suleyman the Magnificent's court at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and I've never forgotten it - every piece was stunningly beautiful.
FWIW, I'm Christian, but have a deep love for the other Abrahamic faiths. I think Islamic art and architecture are among the greatest gifts we as humans have ever made, heard and seen. It doesn't surprise me that Sr. Wendy treated Islamic art with such reverence. She understood thing that too many of us want to avoid facing, lest we have to abandon our prejudices in so doing.
@@EdwardMariyaniSquire Any idea who the Executive Producer was? He did his best to mar a very nice segment with ominous, scary music. Some people will take any opportunity to vilify Islam.
I'm not certain why anyone would assume that this part of the soundtrack is "scary" and intended to vilify Islam. I love music from Arabic countries, Iran, Turkey and Central Asia and i don't hear anything to offend in this segment. As another commenter suggested, it's intended to be reverent.
Her admiration for Islamic art is admirable. But Islamic art is a great proof that once you ban human image from art, the art will die. Slowly, maybe. But all these mihrabs - what are they compared to Sistine chapel, David, Botticelli, or the Greek statues? Nothing. Pretty pottery. The art, which is always fuelled by passion, emotion, awe of the human beauty, is dead.
These great examples - Sistine chapel, David, Botticelli, or the Greek statues - are from a bygone age. Today's 'Western' art - modern and postmodern - could easily be seen as equally dead if by 'dead' you mean the absence of the human body. Think of the iconic works of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles, Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans. In some ways, one might say that 'Islamic art' (which is something which can be quite different from 'art by Muslims') is postmodern before postmodernism - except that it is markedly more beautiful.
Utter rubbish... There have been tens of thousands of paintings based on Biblical stories as far as I am aware not one based on the Koran and yet she says it is more important for the history of art...
@user-pj7bs5qs7k I'm not so sure she's thinking in terms of quantities. I think she's talking in terms of doing something radically different to the tens of thousands of paintings about Bibical, Greek, and other stories.
