KONSEP SENI ISLAM SAYYID HUSEIN NASR

Sayyid Husein Nasr divided art into three parts: pure art, traditional art and religious art. Islamic art included on pure art, relates to the principle of cosmos unity and principle of individual life unity and society. Because of that, according to Nasr, thinking about Islamic art is not based on material and social political experience that scope on inner reality of al Quran. In other hand, Islamic art also based on wisdom or knowledge that inspired of spiritual values, therefore Islamic art can be made as a result of khazain al ghaib. Because of that, Islamic art always reflected on religious values and explained of spiritual qualities. Actually, there are four functions which carry out by Islamic art. (1) Aims a blessed as cause of spiritual relation with Islamic spiritual dimension; (2) Remembering presence of the God in everywhere peoples are; (3) As criteria to evaluate social movement, cultural or politic that really Islamic or not; (4) to determined step of intellectual relation and religious of society