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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 3)
Again, the figures in this composition, by Ismail al Shaikhly, are abstractly rendered through the use of reductive garmenting. The oval humanoid forms are scattered throughout a deep green background. Some stand erect while others bend low gathered…
Title not known (Al Shaikhly 2)
In this abstracted composition, Ismail al Shaikhly has focused the action in the central portion of the canvas. Humanoid forms are insinuated through the display of garmented figures scattered amongst faded architectural structures. Vegetation is…
Title not known (al Shaikhly 1)
The shapes composing this landscape, by Ismail al Shaikhly, are rendered in a reductive manner. Trees are hinted at by way of jagged vertical lines while the rock formations in the middle ground use blocks of color to simulate three dimensions.…
Title not known (Ahmed 4)
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…
Title not known (Ahmed 3)
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…
Title not known (Ahmed 2)
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…
Title not known (Ahmed 1)
This picturesque composition, by Sadik Ahmed, depicts a quite village set in rolling hills and lush vegetation. Architectural structures dot the background and middle ground; yet, the composition is devoid of human presence. The loose application of…
Title not known (Al-Mukhtar 28)
An undulating swath of murky black smears is framed by two bands of repetitive stenciled patterning on the upper and lower horizontal planes of the composition. Within this ambiguous area at the center of the picture plane a singular butterfly is…
Title not known (Al-Mukhtar 27)
A bull stands on the ground plane of this composition rendered with the use of interlacing curvaceous lines. The animal's neck and eye are tilting upwards regarding a butterfly of bright coloring. A rift appears in the background cutting out a…