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Title not known (Aljanabi 1)
This composition by Aljanabi represents a compete abstraction created through the use of swirling color smears. Here the content of the piece is submissive to the aesthetic as the focus is on the blending and direction of the color application not on…
Title not known (Aljanabi 2)
Like Aljanabi’s completely abstracted pieces, this unconventional portrait focuses on the formal qualities of line and color as it overemphasizes the shape of the woman’s garments and fabricates the color palette of the environment. Although the…
Title not known (Alnajar 1)
In the surreal composition by Alnajar, a series of humanoid figures are positioned in various ways around the canvas. The faces and bodies of the figures are rendered with amorphous shapes giving the impression of fluidity. The color palette of the…
Title not known (Alnajar 2)
A series of abstracted faces in profile dominate this composition drawing the viewer’s eye to the right of the canvas. The profiles occupy a black space that comes to a point at the left edge of the picture plane accentuated by a sickly yellow…
Title not known (Aziz 1)
This composition, by Nattik Aziz, is vertical in orientation with the representational figures portrayed in the lower third of the canvas. The figure of an animal with penetrating yellow eyes sits atop a carpet decorated with an intricate border…
Title not known (Aziz 2)
In this composition, Nattik Aziz has rendered two textile squares in vivid detail hanging from pikes. Represented in each textile square, there are a multitude of patterned configurations delineated by clear color separations. The detail of this…