Another image from the Village series, "Iraq Village 6" shows the viewer a tighter vantage point onto the world of village life in Iraq. The composition of the piece is pyramidal, meaning that it is wider at the bottom and seemingly comes to a point…
The shapes composing this landscape, by Ismail al Shaikhly, are rendered in a reductive manner. Trees are hinted at by way of jagged vertical lines while the rock formations in the middle ground use blocks of color to simulate three dimensions.…