Based on the previous studies on issues concerning visual artwork, many suggested an improvement has to be made on the Guidelines about Visual Art from the Islamic Perspectives (1987). Referring to the guideline, the process of producing visual artwork deals with the visual subject and the style of presenting the visual form. As a reference in producing Shariah compliant visual artwork, the guideline should be improved based on the evolving of the contemporary art. This paper aims to explore the needs of study on visual art from the perspectives of Islamic Shariah base on the contemporary development in the art scene. Given this gap, this study attempts to discuss the literature review for compiling the preliminary view point on the guideline status quo. The result shows that there are deficiencies in the guideline in terms of visual subject, visual form and visual content discussion. It is hoped that this study will pave the way to new frontier in the Contemporary Visual Art based on Islamic Shariah which has a huge contribution to the sustainability of national art. Result of this study can become a literature for those researchers who are intent to discover on this topic. Recommendation was given for further investigation into a refinement the guideline base on the contemporary art development through the qualitative research.

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There have been various research studies in Islamic art and Muslim art; however, the specific research on visual art from the perspective of Islamic law and principles (Shariah) through the usage of subject and style in visual art based on the Malaysian context is limited. Thus, this paper aims to review the existing Islamic fatwas and guidelines pertaining to the usage of subject and style in visual art and to identify the gap in visual art from the Islamic view-point research. The result shows that there are several deficiencies which could be discovered by researchers: 1) visual art should be seen from the various types of subject (“the living” such as humans and animals; the “non-livings” which are nature and man-made; and hybrid images) and style (representational, stylization and abstraction); 2) based on the discussion of visual art ambiance, the new Islamic viewpoint should be obtained from the Malaysian Islamic Shariah’s experts and later, discussed. Recommendation is given by using the qualitative approach for conducting further researches in this field of study.

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