Tag: Jamil Hamoudi
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Jamil Hamoudi 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 15
“Calligraphy for the Arab artist was for centuries a major outlet of creativity: he employed it inventively and in endless modulations to express a powerful aesthetic impulse often associated with ‘spiritual’ feelings, largely because most of the phrases thus written were of a religious nature. The words were sufficient unto themselves as ‘content’, the beauty of their meaning being reflected…