THE REALISM OF AESTHETICS AS THE NEAREST IMAGE OF GOD: A Liberated Ideology in the Islamic Aesthetics
Abstract: The measurement of
beauty might be a problem when a person claimed about the value of beauty. This
had brought the issue of Islamic aesthetics (which was expressed in the works
of art), less appreciated and mired in the stagnation for centuries. While in
the West, the aesthetic value had been trapped in the dichotomy of subjectivity
and objectivity and had led to the relativistic subjectivity by marginalizing
metaphysical approach. Polarization of Islamic aesthetics on geometric themes,
arabas and calligraphy had put the creativity of Muslim artists in the stocks,
even up to the understanding of the aesthetic itself. Iconoclastic of the
mainstream of Islamic artistic should have been one option only. As a product
of classical thought and compliance, the iconoclastic should have no longer
been representing the needs and been existing in the present context. This
study was trying to make arguments both longstanding and recent findings.
Realism became researchers’ choice, because realism had the richest footing
both in the Qur’an and scientific findings. This study expected to break the
shell of orthodoxy about the size of aesthetics in the frame of Islam and gave
hope to both the perpetrators and the art connoisseur to the ultimate point
Keywords: Islamic artistic;
Islamic orthodox aesthetics; modern Islamic aesthetic; iconoclastic and realism
Penulis: Gunawan Adnan,
Widiarto, Wilaela
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd160053
