Man’s World ..Women’s World by Nourma Masri
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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 25 x 30 cm
Year: 2024
Price: $2000.00 USD
Status: available
The gilded world of an aging, wealthy man..his life adorned in luxury, yet shadowed by a quite longing…. He is surrounded by graceful figures, seen only through the lens of beauty , desire and fleeting pleasure.. Their elegance is unquestionable, yet they remain distant….Muses of a life shaped by appearances, not connection .. He has tasted the sweetness of the surface, but never the depth of true devotion.. Beneath all the opulence lies a silent ache…a world overflowing with gold, yet starved of lasting love
Why collect this work?
A large male face presides over six smaller women within a fractured geometric field, using unequal scale and separation to picture attention as possession rather than intimacy.
- Masri states that her painting joins Cubist-inflected abstraction to concerns with emotion, morals and humanity. Here, that ethical focus is carried by the arrangement of figures rather than by narrative detail alone.
- In the photograph, angular divisions repeatedly cut between faces and bodies, while strong diagonals converge near the lower centre. The women remain individually ornamented but spatially compartmentalised around the man, supporting the artist’s supplied description of beauty viewed without lasting connection.
- The documented acrylic on canvas supports opaque colour blocks and sharply defined contours. Those graphic contrasts make the hierarchy immediately legible, although the photograph cannot establish exact colour, texture or physical condition.
- Catalogued as a 2024 painting measuring 25 by 30 cm, the work compresses a broad gendered critique into a small format. It provides a concrete basis for examining how portrait scale and pictorial structure can distinguish visibility from recognition.
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
