"Freedom" by Nourma Masri
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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm
Year: 2024
Price: $2000.00 USD
Status: available
Woman’s freedom is safeguarded in many forms, its boundaries guide the direction and glow of life, When she earns the right to work, to live, to give with dignity and care, she rises to excel in every facet, and sows’ happiness and radiant energy, far and wide
Why collect this work?
A diagonally extended figure crosses nested, irregular bands, presenting freedom not as escape from boundaries but as movement shaped by them.
- Masri describes her practice as emotionally and morally oriented, with roots in Cubism. Here, the moral proposition is more evident than the Cubist claim because the body remains continuous rather than fragmented into facets.
- In the photograph, the pale violet body forms an axis from raised hand to pointed foot. Bent limbs complicate that upward sweep, while concentric turquoise, violet, navy and gold contours alternately contain and amplify it.
- The catalogue identifies acrylic on canvas. Acrylic can sustain the broad, bounded colour fields used here, allowing the figure and surrounding bands to remain graphically distinct despite their closely layered arrangement.
- The artist’s description casts boundaries as safeguards for women’s freedom. The painting tests that idea through enclosure that can read as protective or restrictive, making it a useful counterpoint to images that equate freedom only with limitlessness.
About the Artist
Nourma Masri
Nourma Masri is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Dubai, AE.
Nationality: Syrian
My paintings rooted in cubism & rendered in acrylic on canvas, glide between Modern and Contemporary sensibilities & abstract
