Tag: Middle East
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01 Work, The Art of War, Frank McCarthy’s Charging Warrior, with footnotes
Due to religious dictates it is very difficult to find classical Islamic art portraying people! To tell the story I have decided to try and make my own through AI. I hope I will eventually get it right! Thanks for your patience. Please visit my other blogs: Art Collector, Mythology, Marine Art, Portrait of a Lady, The Orientalist, Art of the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Wissam al-Jazairy’s Scream, with footnotes
The Scream is a composition originally created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The Norwegian name of the piece is Skrik, and the German title under which it was first exhibited is Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature). The agonized face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images in…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Khawla bint al-Azwar, Arab Muslim warrior in the service of the Rashidun Caliphate, with footnotes
Due to religious dictates it is very difficult to find classical Islamic art portraying people! To tell the story I have decided to try and make my own through AI. I hope I will eventually get it right! Thanks for your patience. The Rashidun Caliphate was the first caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.…
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01 Works The Art of War, Wissam Al Jazairi’s Lampedusa and Refugees, with footnotes
Lampedusa, Italy — The small harbor in Lampedusa is crowded with a fleet of dilapidated wooden and metal smuggler’s boats, some half-submerged. Discarded life jackets, filthy clothes and plastic water bottles float in the sea. Nearly 2,000 migrants have died crossing the Mediterranean this year. Lampedusa is the closest piece of European territory to North Africa,…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, The Art of War, Suleiman Mansour’s Untitled, The distruction of Palestine’s Olive trees, with Footnotes #76
Sold for 25,200 GBP in October 2022 Palestinian farmers know their land by the square-millimeter. To them, there is no such thing as “wild plants”: each sprout on their land is an expression of Palestinian life, as indigenous flora. They harvest the crops, take care of their trees, and walk along their vines with the…
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01 photograph, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Imad Abu Shtayyah’s We shall return, with Footnotes #100
The painting shows the ruins of Gaza morphing into the torso of a Palestinian woman. This woman – Gaza – is rising to gaze into an expectant sky, body in motion as though she has just picked herself up off the ground. The strength, resilience, and determination communicated by this work are indicative of Abu…
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01 photograph, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Hayv Kahraman’s Chained, with Footnotes #97
«I draw inspiration from many of the theoretical and practical feminist ideologies. While I admire the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler, I also believe that collective nonviolent activism plays a fundamental role in changing pre-existing perceptions. My work predominantly consists of representative activism. “It is a powerful instrument of non-verbal expression, and…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Zena Assi’s A Storm is Brewing My Beautiful Refugees, with Footnotes #91
Sold for €31,562.50 in Oct 2021 Themes that are central to Zena Assi’s vision include present-day issues related to countries in the Middle East as they battle with internal strife and civilian unrest. The artist uses various supports and mediums to document and explore the cultural and social changes around her. Her work replicates the…
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01 photograph, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Shirin Neshat’s Untitled, with Footnotes #97
Sold for GBP 37,250 in Oct 2008 The present photograph belongs to an early series titled ‘Women of Allah’, in which Neshat depicts Islamic women wearing chadors and tattooed inscriptions of decorative patterns, devotional prayers, or poems in Farsi. She uses the Islamic veil to explore and deconstruct stereotypes of Muslim women as oppressed by…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Marwan Sahmarani’s The War of August 22-28, with Footnotes #89
Sold for £10,687.50 in Jun 2019 On August 28, 1997, over 300 people were hacked to death in the village of Rais, about 30 miles south of Algiers, in Algeria. The attack was part of a wave of atrocities committed during fighting between Islamic fundamentalist guerrillas and the Algerian military regime, which had intensified late…
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01 Work, The art of War, Assyrian Army Besieges a City, with Footnotes
The Assyrian empire has been described as the “first military power in history”. Mesopotamia was the site of some of the earliest recorded battles in history. In fact, the first recorded battle was between the forces of Lagash and Umma c. 2450 BC. Like many Mesopotamian records, it contains elements of fiction. The ruler of…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Anas Albraehe’s Future’s Guards and Bab Alhawa – Gate of Exile, with Footnotes #88
In 1948, more than 700000 Palestinian Arabs — about half of Palestine’s Arab population — fled from their homes or were expelled by Zionist militias and, later, the Israeli army during the 1948 Palestine war, following the Partition Plan for Palestine… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Oussama Diab’s New Guernica, with Footnotes #96
The complex painting received mixed reviews when it was shown in the Spanish Republic Pavilion at the world’s fair in Paris… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Oussama Diab’s Untitled, 2008, with Footnotes #93
Born in 1977, in Damascus, Oussama Diab is a Palestinian contemporary artist based in Lebanon. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus in 2002. Diab has worked through various painting styles, often combining different forms and techniques in a single composition. His early works amassed paintings in a neo-expressionist style resonating with the tense…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Michelangelo and Oussama Diab’s depiction of The creation, with Footnotes #95
This painting is based on the Creation of Adam, also known as The Creation of Man is a fresco painting by Italian artist Michelangelo… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Louay Kayyali’s From Under the Rubble, with Footnotes #94
Sold for USD 103,000 in Oct 2007 Active during a time of immense upheaval in the Arab world, Kayyali was one of its most prominent socio-political artists, his paintings externalising the pressing humanitarian and political issues that surrounded him. His powerful depictions of ordinary people are characterized by strong fluid lines that define the figures…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The art of War, Mahmoud Sabri’s Jnazet (Funeral), with Footnotes
Sold for 346,000 GBP in October 2018 The painting Jnazet is the peak of a multifaceted representation of the artist’s political and social ideologies that were intensified following the Ba’athist Coup. The funeral ‘procession’ is harshly etched, with jagged and symmetrical tendencies; an uplifted arm both appears to beat a drum and gesture in defiance. The…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The art of War, Maher Attar’s Samar Baltaji, with Footnotes
Samar Baltaji is the one-legged mother in the photo, holding the hand of her maimed daughter, Nisrine, as they walked through a landscape of Beirut at war. In June 1985, during the war in the Palestinian camps — which pitted the Amal party against the Palestinians — he captured a photo that made the front…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The art of War, Suleiman Mansour’s Motherhood, with Footnotes
Sold for 63,500 GBP in Oct 2023 An impassioned and tender depiction of the relationship between mother and child, Motherhood represents Mansour’s natural tendency towards familiar subjects, here both familial and national. With sincerity, the artist has rendered the ubiquitous narrative of motherhood with a localised style and custom; dressed in traditional robe, the woman holds…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Oussama Diab’s Monroe Al Jadida (The New Monroe), with Footnotes #92
Sold for USD 10,000 in Nov 2013 Born in 1977, in Damascus, Oussama Diab is a Palestinian contemporary artist based in Lebanon. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus in 2002. Diab has worked through various painting styles, often combining different forms and techniques in a single composition. His early works amassed paintings in…
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