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Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar 10 1992.jpg
This macabre portrait, by Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar, features the monstrous bust of an older man portrayed with fang teeth and red eyes. Two greenish hands with sharp nails emerge out of this abstracted background holding the severed head of a small…

Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar 26.jpg
A series of angled squares makes up this composition by Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar. Within a central square the bust of a dove is painted onto a faded yellow and blue background. Below the white bird is a square containing the stylized representation of…

Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar 14 1998.jpg
Standing out in this composition is the face of a woman with large eyes and red lips. The woman's visage takes up a large portion of the picture plane and is overlaid with a patterning of script the merges into pictorial forms. Thin dappled color…

Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar 13 1971.jpg
The central focus of this piece is the composite figure made up of a woman’s head and a horse’s body with wings. The figure is adorned with a colorful band around its body and two bands around its legs with strips of primary colors. The background is…

Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar 1 1996.jpg
In this minimal composition, by Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar, a singular butterfly decorated in primary colors floats above a stenciled background. The positive space of the stenciled layer is made up of faded purples, yellows, and reds while the negative…

Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar6.jpg
In this complex composition, the pillars of smoke have taken on an animalistic form with large protruding eyes. The billow of smoke at the lower portion of the picture plane exhibits the faces of various individuals who appear disconnected from their…

Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar 24.jpg
In this portrait, by Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar, a woman wearing a black and red dress gazes outwards towards the viewer. She is set in a muted background of neutral colors. The composition is framed with an inner border of yellow with red dots and an…

Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar 25.jpg
In this composition, by Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar, a bricked dome stands out in the center of the picture plane. The more organic shape of the dome is contrasted with the repetitive geometric patterning the makes up the remainder of the composition.…

Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar 15 1997.jpg
In the extreme foreground of this composition is the form of a leaping horse diagonally oriented across the picture plane. The animal has been rendered with the use of undulating line formations and a sandy dappled color scheme. In the background,…

Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar23.jpg
This minimal composition, by Mukhallad Al-Mukhtar, exhibits a stenciled patterning set against a background of pale gray. Two perpendicular strips of gold starbursts with a black backdrop interrupt this patterning cutting the stenciling into two…
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