They crave the sense of connection, the inherently communal experience, of hearing real people breathe life into centuries-old compositions: the venerated composers, modern-day musicians and generations of music-lovers, all united in the expression of raw human emotion through art.
But the new threat is the ability to transform that creature into images of our own choosing, without regard to whether the new creature is going to be an improvement, or whether these so-called improvements are going to sap all of the energies of the soul that make for human aspirations, art, science and care for the less fortunate.
So it appears that there is both an absence and a presence of the human form in Islamic art.
In the creative spirit of the event, all are open to anyone with the ambition to build a human-powered work of art.
Partly in the same way that we justify other human endeavors, such as art or philosophy, that don't seem to serve any immediate purpose.
Decorative art in almost every human culture includes precisely repeated patterns such as stripes, checks, stars, lattices and knots.
This last requirement is especially oppressive because if art that depicts the human form is not allowed to be displayed according to Shariah, then there is simply no reason for it to be created.
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Shahar mixes cocktails, sets up easels and helps his students perfect the difficult art of drawing the exposed human form.
Any representation of the human form has traditionally been discouraged in Islamic art, helping Arabic calligraphy to thrive in its place.
This superficially intriguing point, I think, must end up as an assault on all art made by free and equal human beings.
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The music reflects one's inner feelings when travelling alone, connects a human to nature, and serves as a performing art.
Our ensemble approaches the ongoing struggle for equality through the lens of music, and we use the interconnectivity of art to explore the intimacy of the human condition itself.
We know this not only by the strange, shiny grey appearance of the sandstone - caused by centuries of polishing by human skin - but also by the fluent lines of Aboriginal art on the overhanging rock face beside me.
Some scholars believe art is merely an accidental manifestation of a change in human cognitive processes.
In the art of Jean-Michel Othoniel, the sense of the human body is always present, even when there's no body to be seen.
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The wall of a jail cell, smeared with excrement as an act of protest, was filmed with such compositional care that it became, in effect, a work of abstract art, allowing us to forget what it actually was: human waste, applied with human rage, and surely unbearable to the human nose.
Whatiftheworld gallery showcases emerging South African artists like Athi Patra Ruga, whose photographs and performance pieces explore and subvert the human body in order to examine the boundaries between fashion, performance and contemporary art.
Munch enthusiasts see a simpler explanation for the picture's grip: "A scream is a very human thing, " says Karen Nikgol, a co-founder of the Oslo contemporary art space NoPlace.
Instead, they argued, a fortuitous mutation in the human brain may have triggered an explosion in human creativity 50, 000 years ago, leading to a sudden appearance of personal ornaments, skilfully-crafted art, novel tools and weapons.
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We've already seen cockroaches turned into unwitting puppets for human overlords, but never have we seen dominance quite so casual as with Brittany Ransom's recent Twitter Roach art project.
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