Ballad Beauty and the Beast by Adele A. N. Art
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Medium: Oil on Canvas, Gemstones, Embroidery
Dimensions: 90 x 120 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $10500.00 USD
Status: available
In Jeddah’s Al-Balad, time folds between memory and myth. Carved roshan windows lean over stone walls, while strings of light ripple like music above. At the edge, waves of fabric rise — violet, restless, alive — a stage where veiled beauty meets the beast of modern rhythm. This is a cultural love letter, adorned with gemstones and fabric, rooted in heritage yet daring to dream anew. A tale of contrast: tradition and transformation, stillness and pulse, Balad as both memory and performance — a city forever reimagining itself.
Why collect this work?
Two patterned bands frame a steep architectural passage, recasting Al-Balad as a layered scene where built detail and decorative rhythm carry equal visual weight.
- The artist profile describes Adele A. N. Art’s practice as centred on identity, memory and symbolism. In this work, that focus appears through the selective reimagining of Al-Balad rather than through a documentary street view.
- In the photograph, closely stacked façades funnel toward a dark blue distance. Strings of small golden lights cross that recession, while blue and violet bands press in from above and below, flattening the street into a scene resembling patterned cloth or stage scenery.
- The catalogue records oil on canvas with gemstones and embroidery. These additions make possible shifts between painted illusion, reflective points and textile pattern, although the photograph cannot confirm their relief, texture or exact placement.
- The work provides a focused case for considering how a historic district can be pictured through ornament and theatrical compression, with architecture presented less as a neutral record than as a structure shaped by memory and invention.
About the Artist
Adele A. N. Art
Adele A. N. Art is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Nationality: Saudi
Symbolic figurative paintings exploring memory, silence, and feminine inner power
