Dimensions: support: 595 x 800 mm
Copyright: © Saloua Raouda Choucair Foundation | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Here we have Saloua Raouda Choucair’s "Composition in Blue Module". It's a geometric abstract piece with a calming, almost musical rhythm to it. What do you see in this work that maybe I'm missing? Curator: For me, it's like gazing into a serene, slightly melancholic dreamscape. The blues, like memories, overlap and fade. Choucair wasn't just arranging shapes; she was composing emotions. Can you sense how the cool tones evoke a quiet contemplation, a world held in gentle suspension? Editor: I do now! It’s less static than I first thought, more like a fluid, evolving feeling. Curator: Exactly! And isn’t it fascinating how she achieves such depth with such seemingly simple forms? It's as if she's whispering secrets of the universe through a handful of colors and shapes.
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Choucair was one of the few Lebanese artists of her generation devoted to geometric abstraction. Composition in Blue Module dates from the late 1940s and early 1950s, when she was studying in Paris. The blues, purple and lighter tones show the subtle shifts of colour that characterised her early painting. Like many of her paintings, it uses the two basic elements of Islamic design – the straight line and the curve – as a starting point to create simple shapes which she duplicates in various combinations and divisions. Gallery label, July 2019
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