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Djamila

Posted by Maverick ~ on June 19, 2018
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Djamila
(2018)
Asad Faulwell
American, born 1982

"21-plate variable edition lithograph mounted on Komatex, with collage, photographs, painted map tacks, and gold pins.

Asad Faulwell's art references the complexity of world politics and recognizes that nothing is easy.  Djamila is a portrait of Djamila Bouhired, an Algerian woman who fought to liberate Algeria from France in the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962).  In Paris, Djamila was tried and convicted as a terrorist but then later pardoned.  Today she is a women's rights advocate.

Here, Faulwell depicted Djamila as a warrior-hero, using gray tones for her face that evoke stone sculptures of war heroes.  Background patterns allude to Islamic religious works, further elevating her status."

My Studio

Posted by Maverick ~ on January 7, 2018
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My Studio
Raphael Soyer

"In this lithograph, Raphael Soyer represented himself at work on a portrait of a model, while his subject dresses in the foreground. The artist’s face is turned, and his portrait is characterized not by his features but by the vigor with which he works. The print captures the isolation that pervades the urban scenes Soyer painted in the 1940s. Even as the artist delights in the form of his model’s body on his canvas, he is entirely separated from her physical presence in his studio." 

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