Shafeek Nalakath
Artwork Details:
- Artist(s)
- Saloua Raouda Choucair
- Title
- Composition with a Circle
- Date
- 1952
- Medium(s)
- Gouache on paper
- Dimensions/Duration
- 25 x 32 cm
- Photo Credit
Composition with a Circle
Although Saloua Raouda Choucair’s time in France, between 1948 and 1951, was only a brief moment, her experience there expanded a practice already engaged with abstraction’s capacity for transcendent lyricism. But while these experiences influenced Choucair’s abstraction, defined by a modular, organic geometry, it was the vernacular of Islamic art found in Arabic-speaking cities and their architectures that anchored Choucair’s reach for non-objectivity—a pure form of artmaking.
*Currently exhibited at Aranya Art Center
