Love Letter I
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Description: 

  • Created by Anwar Jalal Shemza in 1969
  • Heavily influenced by artists who explored “modernism through the double prism of Islamic and Western aesthetics”.
  • Noticed in “Love Letter I”
    • Vocabulary of pattern
    • Forms of the Arabic alphabet
    • Islamic carpet patterns
  • Explores abstract shapes and patterns
  • The letters B and D repeat throughout the piece, making a latticed calligraphic composition

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Artist: 

  • Anwar Jalal Shemza

Image Date: 

20th century