Motherhood by Nourma Masri
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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 120 x 100 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $14300.00 USD
Status: available
In silent strokes, the painting speaks of boundless love amid hardship—motherhood’s quiet sacrifice etched in every line. With eyes alight with devotion and hands weathered by toil, she holds her children close, a universal language of sacrifice that needs no translation. In this sacred act, poverty fades into the background, replaced by the enduring bond that transforms suffering into hope, a testament to the unspoken power of a mother’s devotion.
Why collect this work?
A monumental mother-and-child figure occupies the foreground while fractured buildings, a damaged vehicle, two children and a small fire compress hardship into the surrounding scene. The work’s strongest decision is this contrast between the mother’s continuous, sheltering silhouette and an environment broken into sharp, irregular sections.
- Masri describes her paintings as rooted in Cubism and concerned with emotion, morals and humanity. Here, angular fragmentation is reserved largely for the city, while the family remains legible and physically connected.
- The photograph shows the mother looking beyond the picture rather than toward the infant. Her pale covering arcs around both bodies, creating a visual refuge, yet their exposed position prevents the scene from becoming secure.
- The documented acrylic-on-canvas medium supports crisp outlines, flat bounded shapes and layered tonal contrasts. At 120 by 100 cm, the composition gives the seated figure substantial scale against the crowded architecture.
- Encountering this painting allows comparison between devotional mother-and-child imagery and a contemporary scene of displacement or precarity, asking whether care can provide protection when the built environment has failed.
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
