This document provides an overview of geometric patterns in Arabic art, known as tessellations. It discusses how tessellations often featured repeating geometric shapes that filled the entire space without gaps. The document includes links to images of tessellations from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and provides instructions for students to create their own tessellated art project using overlapping circles, which will be graded based on successfully tesselating the entire page and including an analysis of an example Islamic art pattern.

1. Geometry in Arabic Art
Geometric patterns, which often were tessellations hav
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click here images linked to map

2. Tessellations in Arabic Art
tessellation definitions
More about tessellations

3. Images from the Met
click here for images from The Metropolitan Museum in NYC
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4. Images from the Met
click on the links below :)
Bahram Gur in the Turquoise Pavilion: Page from a manuscript of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami, dated 1
y of Worldly and Otherworldly Drunkenness: Page from the Divan of Hafiz (Collected Poems of Hafiz), ca.
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5. Embroidered Panel, Morocco
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_1970.272.jpg

6. Now it's your turn
You will make a piece of geometric art
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You will use the Geometry in Arabic Art Project Packet as a guide.
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Your art can be..
 a 'stained glass window”
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a rug
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a wall tile pattern
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a window tracery (cut stone) pattern (drawn, not cut)
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7. How is it graded?
For now, the basics are...
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your pattern must tessellate over the entire page
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your pattern must be constructed using overlapping circles per the project
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you must have a written statement describing your choice of overlapping c
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The original construction must be handed in with your project.
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You must include an analysis of a given piece of Islamic art pattern.
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