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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 (Al-Saud 1)
In this dynamic composition a group of stylized figures are shown in an upside-down position. The faces and general body structures indicate humans. Yet, the varied body positions of the group lend to a more complex interpretative potential; perhaps…
Exhibition of Works of Contemporary Arts belonging to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Text from exhibition catalog documenting some of the Foundation's activities in Baghdad