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  • Collection: Artists - Mahoud Ahmed (ماهود أحمد)

Mahoud Ahmad 11.jpg
In this dynamic scene, Mahoud Ahmad has rendered all of the figures in rapid motion. The slim soldier, adorned with rifle and khaki fatigues, marches forward with his shadow preceding his steps. The animal figures placed in the background mimic the…

Mahoud Ahmad 24.jpg
In this rather surreal scene, painted by Mahoud Ahmad, a boat carries a man and a woman to an unknown destination. The gaunt man gazes off in the distance holding a long pole that is the supposed propellant of the vessel. Whilst inside the boat the…

Mahoud Ahmad 16 1991.jpg
Mahoud Ahmad has created, with this composition, an eerie portrait of a doll-like figure in a white dress. Her perfectly rounded face contains two large eyes, one blue and one golden, that are fixed on the viewer, while her dark hair flows wildly…

Mahoud Ahmad 23.jpg
In this composition by Mahoud Ahmed a woman sleeps nude on a patterned carpet framed by the outer portion of the canvas. The features and positioning of her lower body are exaggerated with twisted and enlarged hips and thighs. Blue markings are…

Mahoud Ahmad 4.jpg
In this painting, Mahoud Ahmad has created a scene with frenzied activity that is contrasted with the immobility of a city structure. Two men on horseback, one with a saber drawn to strike, speed forward towards the viewer passing through an opening…

Mahoud Ahmad 20.jpg
The main figure in this minimal composition by Mahoud Ahmad is the nude female form. The woman’s body is composed of overextended curvature lines as well as an enlarged hip and thigh area. Present on the woman’s body are markings that traverse her…

Mahoud Ahmad 12.jpg
In this dream-like work by Mahoud Ahmad a soldier dressed in khaki fatigues lays lifeless in a cavity presumably under the earth. The landscape is made up of sparse trees growing outwards from the cavity with the root systems exposed to the viewer. A…

Mahoud Ahmad 32 1998.jpg
In this simple composition, a man wearing a non-descript black garment gazes out towards the viewer. The dark features of his face are heightened with deep shadows while the crate in which the man sits conceals the remainder of his body. A vase…

Mahoud Ahmad 9 1976.jpg
This complex composition by Mahoud Ahmad is centered upon the interaction between two women, standing over their lifeless male counterparts, confronting a beastly figure with lighted candles. The monstrous form is adorned with an array of gun barrels…

Mahoud Ahmad 22 1974.jpg
Here, Mahoud Ahmad has used the sleeping nude female form to insinuate a dream-like quality to the rendered scene. As the woman sleeps cradled by the boat, a ghostly figure arises from an undetermined space. The vaporous human form on horseback is…
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