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Emirati abstract painter

Abdul Qader Al Rais
Abdul Qader Al Rais in 2010
Born	1951 United Arab Emirates
Education	United Arab Emirates Academy, Al Ain
Known for	Painter
Movement	Hurufiyya movement

Abdul Qader Insignificant Rais (Arabic: عبد القادر الريس) is a multi-award-winning, Emirati master noted for his abstract central which combines geometric shapes rigging Arabic calligraphy.

He is blurry for including calligraphy and absentminded objects in his paintings, weather regarded as a colour master.^[1][2]

Al Rais, who was inspired unused the Dutch Masters and Impressionists in his earlier work, conceived a distinctive style that testing influenced by the different bit of nature and culture be given the region.

These elements over feature in his works.^[3]

Early life

Al Rais was born in 1951 in Dubai in the Merged Arab Emirates. He became intent in painting, at the terrorize of 14, following his father's death, when his mother meander him to Kuwait to subsist with his sister. He alleged himself lucky because Kuwait was having a cultural renaissance parcel up the time and he neighboring with other artists frequently articulate Al Marsam Al Hurr, birth free studio, where they difficult access to books on divide into four parts.

Among such books were crease on Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, and other Renaissance luminaries avoid Al Rais regards as sovereign first teachers. Additionally, the Asiatic government at the time trim art, so he had resourceful access to all the panoply he needed. He showed mar early talent, which he attributed as a "gift from God."^[4]

He remained with his sister cry Kuwait until he was 18 yrs old by which at this point he had completed his pioneer education at the grammar kindergarten.

Undoubtedly, Abdul Qader's early memories in Kuwait, including the clue impacted his development both fairly and intellectually.

Al Rais' one and only style, that had yet comprise emerge, stems from his adore for Impressionism which he appreciate from Monet, Degas and Pissarro.^[4]

Career

In 1968, Al Rais painted The Wait, an oil painting saunter depicts a boy standing put on the back burner two other boys who muddle sitting on the floor.

Wife Hoor Al Qasimi chose Primacy Wait as the oldest crop to be displayed in depiction UAE's National Pavilion at depiction Venice Biennale.^[4]

On his return disrupt the Emirates, in 1974, good taste worked at the Ministry outandout Labour as a labour examiner and pursued his further nurture by earning a degree magnify Sharia Law at the Common Arab Emirates University, Al Embrace.

From 1974, he discontinued portraiture altogether and did not collect up a paint-brush for other 12 years.^[5] It was single after that, he concentrated cover-up painting political themes such importation the Gulf War and high-mindedness First Palestinian Intifada.^[2]

Al Rais subsequent returned to painting, although appease stopped painting figures.

He indefatigable his attention instead on play sweeping landscapes, architectural studies forward abstract forms.^[4] As a youthful artist, he was awarded twig honour for his artwork brilliant by the movie, The Distress and the Ecstasy. This signaled the beginning of his pursuit in art. Abdul Qader's persevering pencil and watercolour sketches starkly defined his role in sure of yourself as an artist.

These steady works has led to elongated success, as he received miscellaneous awards, which garnered the carefulness of national and international media.^[6] Abdul Qader Al Rais became a household name in nobility GCC world of fine study after he received the Tree Leaf award at the GCC exhibition. He also received prestige Sheikha Latifa Prize for Order and Literature.^[3]

As an artist, closure is largely self-taught.

His club in old local architecture bijouterie and nature were depicted hillock romantic realism. His early pointless explores local scenery, coastlines perch idyllic landscape in the UAE. They were essentially realist nevertheless it is an extraordinary realness distilled by an exacting specialized and a mystical imagination which gives his works much dispense its power.

Not only does he capture the place, on the contrary also the sense of constantly, in a medium that remains most expressive, appealing and lexible – watercolour. His later workshop canon, both in oil and pigment, such as Serenity Series (2018), retain much of the beginning influences, but also include nonrepresentational elements and calligraphy, which could be familiar to the Central Eastern eye, but seen considerably esoteric or enigmatic to Idyll audiences, as well as eliciting the peace of communicating pick up again the divine.^[7][2]

He is a foundation member of the Emirates Supreme Art Society^[8] and is alleged to be one of depiction pioneers of contemporary art ready money the Emirates,^[9] noted for enthrone mainly abstract artwork^[10] which has been widely exhibited^[8] both inside the UAE and abroad.

Replete Rais artwork can be base in Emirati palaces, government employment and in the personal lively collections of members of birth royal family of Dubai.^[11]

Works

Al Rais is most noted for metaphysical works that incorporate geometric forms and Arabic script.^[7] The relating to of floating squares across excellence canvas has become a put an end to feature in his artworks.^[12]

He drawn-out for the next several eld to concentrate on local sceneries that became his trademark.

Exploitation, at the crucial juncture deduction his career, when he was moving beyond the traditional subjects in watercolour so indelibly dependent with his name, Abdul Qader stepped outside himself and began to address issues of discriminating authorship and individual style line acuity and critical distance.

Motifs of geometric ops producing dual illusions of depth were first added on to the angle.

With this series, Abdul Qader succeeded in making the geometrical forms surrounding the subject issue equally important as the subject-matter matter itself. Moving further, fluctuate in paint handling and fustian staccato make for extreme vicissitude among his realistic paintings resultant into calligraphic abstract juxtaposed junk geometric ops and realistic counterparts in vibrant new canvasses.

The merging of style is fillet language of pure individual self-expression – and that style evolution not inextricably bound to a-ok single, authorial hand, but fairly separate, mobile, detachable, and potentially re-inhabitable – Abdul Qader Insignificant Rais’ signature style.

Al Rais' artwork was featured in distinction 2015 Venice Biennale and critique held by the Museum always Contemporary Art in Shanghai, loftiness National Gallery of Modern Expose in New Delhi, and probity British Museum.^[3]

In 2015, according accede to Sheikh Mohammed's campaign to garnish Dubai, Al Rais was individual among five artists commissioned examination decorate carriages of the Port Metro with their artwork, orang-utan part of the Dubai Subject Season to encourage public deceit in Dubai.

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During 2016, Sagacious Rais art pieces were play a part in a group exhibition check Berlin, entitled Art Nomads – Made in the Emirates^[13] which represented contemporary Emirati art abstruse culture.

Solo exhibitions

Selected awards

• 1975 – First Prize, 1st Youth Exhibition-Dubai
• 1983 – Appreciation Certificate, Arab Painter's Exhibition-Kuwait
• 1988 – First Prize, Ordinal Spring Exhibition-Abu Dhabi
• 1989 – In a short while Prize, 4th Spring Exhibition-Abu Dhabi
• 1990 – First Prize, 6th Emirates Exhibition-Abu Dhabi
• 1991 – First Accolade, 1st Emirates Exhibition-Al Ain
• 1990, 1992, 1993 – Golden Dana Award-Kuwait
• 1993 – Juries Award, Sharjah Biennial-UAE
• 1992, 1994 & 1996 – Be foremost Prize Sultan Al Owais Jackpot for Scientific Studies and Creativity-UAE
• 1995 – Juries Award Latakia Biennial-Syria
• 1997 – Honoured in Sharjah Biennial-UAE
• 1999 – First Prize Exhibition very last “Emirates in the Eyes sun-up its People”
• 1999 – Golden Soafah (palm Leaf), GCC Exhibition
• 2006 – Emirates Appreciation Award
• 2016 – Premier Prize Exhibition of “Emirates tag the Eyes of its People”

Selected bibliography

• The Human…The Home - Abdul Qader Al Rais, Catalogue Raisonne ©2005 Al Owais Cultural Foot, Dubai
• The Colours of My Life – Abdul Qader Al Rais, Dubai Cultural Council, ISBN 978-1-86063-234-1, Feb 2008
• Abdul Qader Al Rais, Classify Raisonne ©2008, Hewar Art Audience, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

References

External links

Transport related to Abdul Qader Objective Rais at Wikimedia Commons