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Global Rhythms -- Painting and Art

painting and art

PAINTING

KAMAL BOULLATA

Twelve Lanterns for Granada


painting twelve lanterns for Granada

painting Twelve Lanterns for Granada

"Twelve Lanterns for Granada" is work originated from specific architectural features intrinsic to Granada's central monument, the Alhambra Palace, one of the most famous examples of Moorish architecture. Begun in the 13th century, the Alhambra's breathtaking detail celebrate the mixture of nature in man's design.

The field of color of the twelve silkscreen prints mirrors the role played by the Alhambra's mosaic ceramic tiles that contrast the engraved texture of the Arabic verses on Alhambra's walls. The underlying structure governing each print is based on a geometric principle of symmetrical and repetitive relations that generated many of the patterns found in Alhambra's tiles. The prints reflect a vocabulary of diagonal and vertical lines that intersect in opposite or alternating orders within the square.

Each print, then, may be viewed as an independent composition, as part of a tritych, or as an integral component of a work composed of twelve units.

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