Artworks 18
Fountain of Tears
Date of creation2: 
1979
Medium: 
Mixed Media on Carton
Artwork Commentary: 

As an American citizen who lived in the United States, graduated there, earned her nationality, and was from an intellectual and well-off family, what drove her to paint two fountains from tears? Why two? Did she capture a glimpse of her eyes, which were tears of sadness over something? Did she think about Iraq? And what happened that would shed tears as if they were flowing from two fountains? The artist painted this work using different materials, such as ink, acrylic, and watercolors, with letter abstraction that hinted at the title and date of the work. The artist employed the form and the material abstractly and elaborately, drawing plant parts with elegant, organic, curved lines, rarely finding a trace of the pure straight line in nature. Madiha Umar abstracts the shapes of nature and the shapes of Arabic letters to combine them with a gratitude that integrates the laws of the universe and its signs, consoling them to the original design and the glorious creation.

Arabic Title: 
نافورة الدموع
Arabic Medium: 
مواد مختلفة على كرتون