Oil on Canvas / 1966

Iraqi Artist Sua'ad AL-ATTAR
"Suad Al-Attar adopted a method which was a dominant artistic trend in Iraq since the early fifties. It is a trend which aims at joining a consciousness of heritage i.e. consciousness of time with the modern consciousness of place. Whether she made use of folk forms and symbols, as she did in the mid 1960’s or Abbasid forms and symbols as in her paintings since the late 1960’s, her sense of linear modulation, so basic in Arab art, found expression in her last paintings but it served another purpose."
Critic Jebra I. Jebra