The embodiment of the elements of Emirati heritage in contemporary plastic art is one of the main works that attract many artists.
We have a distinguished painting by the well -known Emirati artist, Dr. Karima Al -Shomali, who participated in the annual exhibition of the Association of Emirati Artists in February of last year and was entitled “Opinion”.
Karima Al -Shomali chose the Emirati traditional costume for women, which is characterized by its originality and elegance, through a kind of fabric that is characterized by its bright patterns as it is clear in the painting. D. Karima Al -Shomali on the completion of this pictorial composition to be shown as if it is a “performance scene” that highlights a woman sitting on her seat in full comfort and wears a dress that expresses her Emirati identity,
The image in front of us is one of the pictorial synthetic experiences, which the artist decided to accomplish by mixing photography and performance art.
Here, Dr. Karima in presenting a distinguished work, as the artist plays on the dualism of integration and disappearance in a visual space dominated by the unified style.
The visual composition of the photo scene can be observed through the repetition pattern that controls all parts of the artistic perspective, the repetition here, it stands out through the red points that cover all components of the scene on a beige floor, (the girl, the sofa on which she sits, and the background as well), which is a pattern that covers even personal clothes.
This repetition creates a magical aesthetic scene, generating a sense of visual identification so that the personality merges with the background and its features almost lost in the pattern.
*technique
D. The cream of Shomali is a special technology in its work, focusing on the unit of color and shape, with a slight difference in shadows and lighting, which gives the image that has a three -dimensional perspective, and on the other hand, repetition causes a kind of confusion to the viewer’s eye, and even pushes it to search for the limits of the human being in the illustrated space.
This pictorial synthetic work was reflected in a color transparent transparency that shaved the viewer through this color harmony, and attracted it strongly towards the scene, to melt itself or gradually sacrifice as it stares in this repeated scenic succession, the woman in the pictorial structure before us, appears in a modern suit while staring at a digital tablet, which breaks the pattern from a visual point Until reading is an act of resistance against melting in style or complete isolation.
In another contemplation of the artistic perspective, the individual self, or in the phrase, can be read the most correct questions of individual identity in a society that imposes collective determinants on individuals, as the bodies turn into a part of a frequent social or cultural background.
We can also refer to the contemporary Emirati visual culture, which the Emirati plastic artist was able, as it is with Dr. Karima Al -Shomali is to reflect it by the vocabulary of the heritage, which is almost a tyrant in the work of Emirati artists, especially the artists who focus on the topic of women, and the self, women in the scene sit in the space of her beloved house, where the house here, not only embodies the shelter, but for many artists, a space gathered with cultural and social symbols.
As for the repetition that almost overwhelms the components of the visual scene, the artist has succeeded in furnishing it away from the routine, for the woman in the scene is a modern woman who is not isolated from the surrounding social and cultural influences, and she is necessarily a woman who is open to the cultures of the world, and identifies but (simulates) what is in it of knowledge and transformations, which means that herself is passionate, with knowledge and knowledge It is all a haven that opens the horizons to the cultures of others.
*Address threshold
She chose Dr. Karima Al -Shomali for its work this title (dyeing his soul) and this title, as simple It refers to the positive aspect of the individual self, which is supposed to be free, regardless of the place and time of its presence, and this start that constitutes the self, is an integral part of that dream that embodies the human being of the human being wherever it comes and traveled.
* comment
I wrote d. Al -Shomali, in addition to its work presented in the Emirates Association for Fine Arts: “The work is a completion of what I seek to focus on the cultural heritage heritage related to the adornment of Emirati women, and put it in a contemporary and different plastic form, so that the recipient provides the recitation of a visual artistic message, and that my influence and interaction with my environment is reflected directly in my artwork, in continuation of my dealings with the cultural heritage by reading Contemporary. ”
