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This pyramidal composition, by Rafa Al Nasiri, is framed with three tied rows each reducing in size with elevation. This tied system is mimicked within the frame with faint squared outlines. At the apex of the step pyramid is a band of bright red…

Simplistically speaking this composition is made up of three layers that are rendered quite differently. The upper half of the picture plane is dominated by an alternating stratification of black and red that sits within a three-quarter black border.…

In this horizontally oriented composition, by Rafa Al Nasiri, four vignettes are framed with a blue border. Each frame is then further horizontally bifurcated with a series of multicolored lines. Within each segment is a differing organic shape…

This scene, painted by Mahoud Ahmad, centers on a wooden box that resembles a coffin and is covered with an Iraqi flag. Three figures with shadowy faces draped in ambiguous black garments gaze sadly outwards while a bare breasted woman carrying…

In this painterly scene, by Farouk Abdelazeez, a raft filled with goods is propelled down a river by shadowy figures. On the banks of the river are various forms of lush vegetation including a thick forest of palm tress. The river, rendered in loose…

This village scene, by Farouk Abdelazeez, is rendered in a type of stippling, as each form appears to be composed of a series of hatching and dotted marks. The viewer’s perspective is as one traveling down river; across a bend a small village emerges…

Farouk Abdelazeez has again rendered this landscaped with a kind of stippling technique that composes each form. The landscape here rises from a marshy valley to rolling hills and finally to a rocky mountain range. The color palette is natural, of…

Farouk Abdelazeez has captured this market scene in the midst of action and with detailed realism. A seated woman turns uncomfortably to glance at something beyond the picture plane while two standing women are in conversation. Other figures merely…