Artworks 16
Calligraphy
Date of creation2: 
1969
Medium: 
Watercolors on Carton
Artwork Commentary: 

The Arabic letter carries an apparent beauty and resilience inherent in its charming form (regardless of its linguistic connotation). Using it and inspiration from it, the artist can unleash their creativity and exploit the potential within it as they please due to the softness, tenderness, delicacy, and precision of form. Since the end of the forties, the late Madiha Umar tried to follow this direction and adopted it as an artistic style that remained in her work until her death, with limited exceptions. Thus, she is considered the first modern Arab Hurufiyya artist! We have known her art throughout the ages; from this standpoint, her historical, aesthetic, and deliberative importance is firmly established.

Arabic Title: 
الخط
Arabic Medium: 
ألوان مائية على كرتون