Untitled (NouraAlqasia1)
1999 - Present
Description
Flowers stand across the sheet on tall thin stems, loosely and unevenly spaced. Two dominate: one at the upper left resolving into a circular form in yellow-orange, and one to the upper centre-right opening into broad petals in red and orange. Smaller blooms of varying size are scattered through the foreground and behind.
The palette runs through golden and pale yellow, deep red and crimson, orange and burnt orange, with grey accents in the middle distance.
The ground is soft cream and beige. A horizontal band of grey passes across the middle of the sheet, reading as shadow or as the suggestion of ground.
The stems are given more length than the blooms need, and nothing anchors them, so the flowers read as standing in open space rather than in a field. No signature.
Preservation Notes
PROVISIONAL. Assessment from visual inspection of a digital image only. No physical examination. PART OF A COHERENT GROUP OF FIVE One of five related files: NouraAlqasia.jpg, NouraAlqasia1.jpg, NouraAlqasia1(1).jpg, NouraAlqasia1(2).jpg, NouraAlqasia1(3).jpg. All share identical dimensions of 3508 x 2480 landscape, a uniform cream ground, a warm gold and red palette, soft translucent handling, and no signature. Each is a distinct composition rather than a variant, so each has its own record. DIMENSIONS, STRONG INFERENCE 3508 x 2480 px is exactly A4 at 300 dpi, that is 297 x 210 mm. Across five files this is unlikely to be coincidence. Either these are works on A4 paper scanned at 300 dpi, or they were made on a digital canvas at that preset. Not asserted in the record pending confirmation. SUBJECT NOTE The flowers have not been identified by species. Red flowers recur throughout this artist's work, including poppies in Heritage and in several of the greyscale portraits. Whether these are the same flower should be recorded from the artist, since it may carry specific meaning rather than being a general botanical subject. MATERIAL ASSESSMENT Automated inspection suggested watercolour or mixed media with translucent washes. Unconfirmed. HANDLING If watercolour on paper, light-sensitive. Limit display exposure and control humidity.
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