Repetition and proportion play a big role in this piece of art. Let’s take a more depth look on repetition. Repetition is an element that is being repeated. It can be anything, for example, color, shape, texture, or direction. This piece of art is mainly repetition. Look and observe how each hexagon, pentagons, different shapes and sizes of the stars, and even the small negative spaces are connected together and forming a gestalt. If you slice through in almost any place, it will be symmetrical. Let’s take a look at the proportion part of this art. Proportion is defined as the balanced relationship of all the parts to the whole, either visual or structural. Looking at the piece of art you can see it has been well balanced in structural and visual part of it. The shapes of hexagon, pentagons, stars, negative space are proportion. Like we mentioned earlier, if you sliced the art through in almost any place it will be symmetrical. What is this piece of art? Muslims are not allowed to have any illustration of any of Gods creations and so they resort of mathematics to find ways of decorating their place of worship. This is one of the many different designs they use to decorate their mosque.
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