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  •   Question What does 'linear arabesque' mean? As for your question, I like the hills that seem to extend endlessly into the distance and the tops wreathed with cloud. I think the colours are quite unusual and aesthetically satisfying, with the deep blue of the sky seeming to convey altitude, and the fact that the trees in the foreground appear almost white, which is not something I see everyday. And then you have a few splashes of autumn colour in there as well. Cmao20 (talk) 22:32, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Comment Thanks for your answer. It's surprisingly difficult to find the term "linear arabesque" explained online in the way artists I know use it. If you think about Islamic art from the Arab World, Iran, India, etc., you are normally able to move your eyes around it in a satisfying way. If you compare Gothic paintings and tapestries, which are pre-perspectival, they often have a related satisfying movement, often including stereotyped foliage and such. After perspective was introduced to European art, the arabesque nevertheless remained present, though not by the overly literal definitions I'm mostly seeing in search results, which focus only on decorative filigree and such. What it amounts to is that being able to have a satisfying eye movement around a picture frame is a traditional Western aesthetic. There are some types of compositions that do not provide the viewer with satisfying lines (including curves) in every part of the picture frame but work in some other way, and there are other aesthetics that work differently (for example, I've sometimes discussed classical Japanese or Chinese aesthetics here when I've seen examples of pictures that seemed to me to conform to them). I wish my father were still around; he could discuss things like this much more eloquently (of course from his point of view, which is not the only point of view but was one deeply rooted in tradition and a seemingly encyclopedic memory of all kinds of art - he considered art history and tradition to date back to the work of cavemen, by the way, and embrace all the world's cultures), but I'm just a musician who usually appreciates art that's flat on a surface by moving my eyes around the picture frame and hoping to enjoy the experience across the entire picture frame. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:21, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 23:12, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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