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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Khadiga Riaz’s Untitled, with Footnotes #81

May 5, 2024

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Sold for 6,300 GBP in October 2021 Khadiga Riad was the daughter of Hamed El Alaily and grand daughter of Ahmed Chawki, born in 1914 in Cairo, Egypt, studied at the Mere de Dieu college and from 1950 to 1954. She is regarded as Egypt’s foremost female surrealist. Riad has many variations in the spelling of her…

The central challenge of history painting lay in selecting a particular subject that could engage the heart and instruct the mind. In devising appropriate figures, the painter demonstrated his mastery of anatomy and expression. Grand settings and symbolic accessories proved the artist’s grasp of perspective depth and still-life draftsmanship. Compositions and color schemes had to be carefully conceived to accentuate the principal characters and to clarify the meanings of the incidents. National Gallery

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Tag: Riaz

01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Khadiga Riaz’s Untitled, with Footnotes #81