This is a piece where I say in it the manifestations of the expression was faster to exist than the elements of execution, so it is a hold up between these two opposing sides, in mono colour full, half and sensitive degrees of impressions.
The poems are from the very rich [...]
Waw is a letter equivalent to the letter W in European languages.
In this work, the emphasis is on the relation between the foreground and the background, where the two elements want to grab the intention of the viewer – as if the two dimensions are one, transparency is the keyword [...]
This artwork displays a powerful relationship between the foreground and background where you feel the growing of detailed colouring and living in the subtlest colours.
The artwork contains poems by Tannookhi< /b> in his powerful six line descriptions. To describe the poem, the poet is receiving an element of welcomed surprise, [...]
This artwork shows the grabbing of the expression Lamm, the Arabic equivalent of the English letter L.
It has powerful, dominant blows of brush strokes in single colours softened by sensitive swipes in middles tones of the pigment making this complicated piece of art very simple and visa-versa.
The poems are [...]
This artwork contains the inscription from a poem by the poet Al Hutayya promises rewards in this world and the Hereafter for anyone who delivers a good deed (From Al’Aqd al Farid).
This artwork was produced in 1989, mixed media on paper; its size is approximately 60cm x 90cm. This artwork [...]
The inscription quotes a poem by Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, a pre-Islamic (6th/7th century) poet recognised as a pioneer of fine poetry in Arabic. In these beautiful verses Ibn Abi-Sulma seeks to placate his wife, Umm Kaab, after a row over his suspected infidelity. He assures her that she is al l [...]
This piece is an expression of hurt which can be done only by the tongue. While the background expresses its unique position of colour and movement in an unsettled way, between contrast and harmony, between calm and disconcertment, simmering, boiling, as we see in what it can do to us all, the [...]
The inscriptions quote from two movingly eloquent verses on the plight of the world’s poor and the excesses of the rich. The first, by the poet Al Abbas ibn Al-Ahnaf, says the world has nothing but contempt and hatred for the poor even though his guilt is only the lack of material [...]
The work of the Libyan artist, Ali Omar Ermes, Letter Kaf: The Power of Expression, represents a dramatic departure in its scale, treatment and intent. Measuring 130.6cm x 94.9cm, the painting is dominated by the form of a single letter of the Arabic alphabet, the letter ‘kaf’ or ‘k’, created with one [...]
The artwork featured in this article is (on left-hand side) by Ali Omar Ermes titled ‘Scattered Letters’ (1969) and is with a private collector and ‘Adhadh in Nasakh Mohawar’ (1991) which is held in a private collection (bottom left).
Dr James W Allan is the Keeper of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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