Artistic and formative methods of Arabic letters and their use by contemporary artists

Abstract

The research aimed to reveal the artistic and formative methods of Arabic calligraphy that came as a result of contemporary developments and artistic, formative and technical trends, and as a result of the aesthetic and formative components of the Arabic letter, to identify contemporary plastic artists who presented the Arabic letter in their artworks as one of the data of Islamic heritage values, with the data of contemporary developments. To achieve this, the descriptive analytical approach was used. The research reached many results, including that contemporary artists used industrial technology such as artificial intelligence, neon and light in radical transformations of Arabic calligraphy paintings, which added permanence to Arabic calligraphy and keeping pace with modern developments in techniques in which the influence of the methods of Arabic calligraphy formations based on repetition, exchange between form and ground, and formations with geometric rhythm and others on the practices of artists with their various artistic trends from modification and geometric abstraction is evident.