The striking palette of this abstracted composition is made up of the contrasting colors of aquamarine and bight red. The surface of this work is textured through both the addition and subtraction of materials. Patches of the upper tenth of the…
This three-dimensional form, by Shakir Hassan Al Said, is triangular in composition with a central fold creating two halves. There are a multitude of seemingly random shapes and markings covering a light blue background. A series of geometric squares…
This abstraction, by Shakir Hassan Al Said, is framed with a dark outer half-circle that transitions into the central light blue portion of the composition. This center section is dotted with black markings. While some resemble lettering, other more…
The background of this composition is rendered in white and light blues with various faint strokes of yellow. Jutting horizontally into the picture plane from the left side, a series of thick black beams crisscross one another underscored with an…
The entirety of this composition is made up of a grid-like pattern with small squares of the same size alternating between empty and containing an X shape or small circular shapes. With the exception of an orange square, the color palette is neutral…
This nonrepresentational piece, by Shakir Hassan Al Said, is oriented in a grid-like pattern that fades towards the bottom of the composition. The majority of the color palette is made up of natural brown and tan tones with a white overlay in the…
In this abstracted composition, by Shakir Hassan Al Said, script appears throughout the blackened and washed out surface. Two arrows on either side of the composition direct the viewer’s eye over and up, while the writing fades in and out of the…
In this painting, Shakir Hassan Al Said utilizes distinct color fields and, at times, thick black outlines to delineate the characters within the composition. A group of figures are tightly packed towards the right side of the canvas. The individuals…
In this work, by Shakir Hassan Al Said, the main focus appears to be on color and line as the composition is overwhelmed with an encompassing color palette held together through the use of black outline. The figures are garmented in multicolored…
In this textured composition of bright red and blue tones, by Shakir Hassan Al Said, a rather stylized bird sits at the center of the foreground. The bird’s form is outlined in a thick black that is filled in by a pale pink while its wings are…