Human Form (1983)
Description
Size diptych: 46 x 72 cm; 18.1 x 28.3 in
Each panel: 46 x 36 cm; 18.1 x 14.2 in
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed on the reverse
Provenance
Private Collection, Lebanon.
This artwork is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Location
Beirut, Lebanon
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Description
Afaf Zurayk is a Lebanese visual artist and writer. Born in 1948, she studied fine arts at the American University of Beirut and obtained a Master’s degree in Islamic art at Harvard University in 1972.
“As I move forward, I always return to what underlies my direct experience: a shaft of light. A memory of closeness,” says Afaf Zurayk about her artistic path. Human Form is a series of delicate and intimate paintings depicting details of human bodies.
In the book Drawn by Light (2019), Zurayk coupled a piece from Human Form with this text: “The void. The hole. Moving in stillness forms discover themselves. Colours vibrating music softly. Changing tones and harmonies to become others. Learning the dry brush technique. (...) To remember that you went through the same process when you looked at your love’s lips curling upwards preparing to smile. The potential. The beauty. The expanse. (...) Moving in time with your heartbeats. (...) Tiny. Reverberating. Warm. The eternal moving void. A smile. Where everything begins.”
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