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Title not known (Al Shaikhly 4)
In this portrait bust, by Ismail al Shaikhly, a woman in a three-quarter pose gazes blankly out towards the viewer. Her dark eyes are contrasted with the pale yellow color of her hair that falls below her bare shoulders. The woman is set within a…
Title not known (Al Shaikhly 5)
Two women form the central focus of this composition; one sits upright while the other reclines, eyes closed, resting on the shoulder of the other. The female figures are rendered without great detail, relying on basic organic shapes composed…
Title not known (Al Shaikhly 6)
This landscape is primarily composed of two color variations, purple and orange. Shades of purple fill the sky whilst the oranges form the trees and vegetation. A naturalistic rendering of the landscape is not the focus of this piece. The focus…
Title not known (Al Shaikhly 7)
The man in this portrait is set at a three-quarter pose in a plain background of mixed blues and oranges. He has dark features and wears a white traditional head covering that contrasts the shadowy browns of his exterior garmenting. The overall…
Title not known (Al Shaikhly 8)
A heavily garmented woman stands at the foreground of this composition holding the form of an infant. She is frontally posed gazing outwards from the picture plane. A series of condensed architectural structures rise behind her with a centralized…
Title not known (Al Shaikhly 9)
In this portrait, a woman in a pink blouse stands facing the viewer while gazing off the right. Her dark hair, smeared with blue and pink, frames her oval face. Detail is lost through the painterly treatment of the subject as loose brushstrokes…
Title not known (Al-Alousy 1)
The sandy tones of this composition are interrupted by the intermittent use of teal creating a rustic quality to the piece. The varied use of Arabic script within this composition attests to the flexible nature of the Arabic letter. Here Al-Alousy…
Title not known (Al-Asadi 1)
Mahdi Al-Asadi has rendered this scene in a painterly manner as the subject matter is articulated with swaths of color rather than with detail. Although visual specificity is not the priority with this representation, figures can be identified and…
Title not known (Al-Azzawi 1)
A saber cuts diagonally across this composition. This angularity of line is contrasted with the circular shape of the shield that lies atop the sword. Upon the shield is a pattern of calligraphic text arranged in concentric circles around a central…
Title not known (Al-Banna 1)
This three dimensional composition, by Jabbar Al-Banna, is mounted upon a rectangular neutral background; thus, the metallic sculpture is not completely in the round. Several stylized figures are merged together to form an organically shaped…