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Head study (after Tintoretto)

on July 09, 2017

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Ibn Muqla canon, excerpts, plus Ahmed Rafiq Book: The Aesthetic Foundations of the Arabic Scripture at Ibn Mulaqh. Excerpts and table of contents.

Full with plenty of ellegance and harmoy, here a glimpse in the calligraphic work of Ibn Muqlah. Ibn Muqlah (886-940 CE) was an official of the Abbasid empire, a diplomatic and also an innovator in the field of the calligraphy; his writings lead a change in the way the documents were rendered in the Arab world, from kufic to naksh. Here we can appreciate a copy of his work. Below I also post excerpts of Ahmed Rafiq Book: The Aesthetic Foundations of the Arabic Scripture at Ibn Mulaqh. Excerpts and table of contents. It is an interesting book, specially when doing the connections to greco-latin traditions, for example, when comparing the proportions of letter Alif to the Vitruvian man. All these contents are in the repository of islamicmanuscripts.com , including works of Sheila Blair, Paul Delaroche, D. James and others. Here are excerpts and screenshots of a very interesting book written by Ahmed Rafiq commenting the life and work of the renowned Arab calligraph

A new painting in acrylic

Here some pics of the painting I made for a very special client. It depicts a conversation between Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (1918-2004) and Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum (1912-1990), who were rulers of Abu Dhabi (since 1966) and Dubai (since 1958) respectively and two of the founding fathers of the United Arab Emirates. The country was founded in 1971 and will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2021. Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid were the driving forces behind the unification of the previously called Trucial Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah Umm Al Quwain and Fujairah). The picture above is the final stage, while the pics below show different stages of the painting, from the underpainting in black and white to the posterior development in colour, and some reworking in the faces. While developed in two separate canvas, the composition is developed to work as a whole. The size of each canvas is approximately 1.80 m by 1.20 m. I came with the idea

Uncertainty notes (3) Some notes on change

The tweeting historian comparison of Bizantium and tenoctitlan. The story starts when a teacher, who grew up in postwar East Germany-behind the Iron Curtain-falls into a coma, just to wake up to a newly reunified Germany. Because the shock would be potentially lethal, said the doctors, she is tricked by her son into believing that everything remains the same. The focus is nostalgically placed on the individual worldview that was being deleted, what would replace it? And would she be ready for it? What would be her place in this new world? And why? What about what she believed in, what she learnt, what she taught?. Why?. That was the plot of the movie Goodbye Lenin. In the pivotal scene, the teacher wakes up early and taking advantage of his son’s heavy sleep, ventures by herself to the outside world, untutored, unguarded. And what she sees is nothing but totally a new world, and strikingly, a flying Lenin, crossing the streets and saluting her while is being removed from the city

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