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The scene depicted by Al Jadar captures the pastoral aesthetic of an Iraqi Village. The painterly approach Al Jadar uses in forming the silhouettes of the landscape creates a sense of movement to an otherwise static scene of architectural elements.…

Al-Jadar paints an image of the tranquility and rest that takes place at the end of a days work. The livestock is tethered to a post, the sky is darkening while shifting its hues from brilliant turquoise blue to dusky purples punctuated with silver…

Another painting from the Iraqi Village series by Al-Jadar, Iraqi Village 3 captures the iconography of the small Iraqi town. The simple and beautiful geometrically based architecture, the palm trees, and market stalls. The villagers are shown…

In Iraqi Village 4, Al-Jadar relies on a much tighter composition than others in the series. The bulk of the paintings scene takes place in the foreground, focusing on the bare skeletal silhouettes of the trees, the cube like shapes of the houses,…

The oil on canvas by Khalid Al-Kassab which depicts a still life is reminiscent of modernist still life paintings being produced contemporaneously in Europe in the early to mid 20th century. The rich saturated colors, the composition and the single…