In this oil on canvas created by Khalid Al-Rahal, the sense of the natural world is abstracted and turned upside down. The ambiguous setting gives the viewer a sense of uneasiness or lack of place. The human forms seem huddled together in a small…
Presented here is a pastoral scene with the representation of rural culture. A herd of sheep travel along a dirt road in the midst of an expansive landscape. In the deep background, a sprawling metropolis can be faintly scene. Yet, within this slow…
This work depicts a greater detail of human life in the stead of a landscape. The rectangular composition creates a long narrow window onto the life of an Iraqi villager. The colors in the piece are very much in keeping with the colors present in…