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This surreal portrait, by Suad al Attar, focuses on the visage of a young woman from both a frontal and three-quarter vantage point. The figure is rendered through the use of outline and shading. Undulating lines flow outward from the woman’s face…

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This vibrant work, by Suad al Attar, is electrified through the hyper-realistic rendering of a tree’s root system fanning out from the central trunk like lightning through the sky. The color scheme of intense reds and yellows contrasted with black…

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Two feminine figures compose the central focus of this dual portrait. Their bodily features are reduced to a mere conglomeration of line and shape as separated color fields insinuate skin and garmenting. The background in which the figures are set is…

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A series of loose color smears composes this abstracted landscape. A tree with random foliage dominates the right portion of the composition even as it blends into the background with other kinds of flora. Fading color density insinuates the…

Sadik Ahmed 2 1975.jpg
This still life, by Sadik Ahmed, represents objects in various states of artistic completion. The two vases and a series of fruits are rendered with full color and shading whilst background objects, like a picture frame and book, are sketched with…

Sadik Ahmed 4 1986.jpg
The rendering of the figures in this group portrait is reductive in that the women’s bodies are composed of basic shapes and black outlines. A majority of the women peer outwards towards the viewer even whilst engaged in a task. Although a bit…
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