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With text extracted from Jabra I. Jabra's "Iraqi Art Today"

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…

In this textured rendition, Kahlid al-Rahal has carved out different humanoid shapes in various positions staged to the left two-thirds of the canvas. These figures are highlighted by a contrasting color scheme of vibrant blues with soft yellow and…

The scene depicted by Al Jadar captures the pastoral aesthetic of an Iraqi Village. The painterly approach Al Jadar uses in forming the silhouettes of the landscape creates a sense of movement to an otherwise static scene of architectural elements.…

"Iraq Village 5" is quite similar to others in the Village series. The depiction of architecture and persons in the painting is consistent with the other works of this subject matter executed by Al-Jadar. The colors are striking with the poignant…

Where as the previous work "Women in the Village Souq" shows the daily tasks of the females in the village, "River Scene 1" illustrates the tasks that the men of the village undertake daily. The scene depicts the readying of the vessels to go out…

In Iraqi Village 4, Al-Jadar relies on a much tighter composition than others in the series. The bulk of the paintings scene takes place in the foreground, focusing on the bare skeletal silhouettes of the trees, the cube like shapes of the houses,…

Al-Jadar paints an image of the tranquility and rest that takes place at the end of a days work. The livestock is tethered to a post, the sky is darkening while shifting its hues from brilliant turquoise blue to dusky purples punctuated with silver…

Another painting from the Iraqi Village series by Al-Jadar, Iraqi Village 3 captures the iconography of the small Iraqi town. The simple and beautiful geometrically based architecture, the palm trees, and market stalls. The villagers are shown…