Artist set to showcase street mural.THE first Al Riwaq Street Art 2009 project concludes this weekend with the work of 24-year-old Bahraini artist Maha Al Sahaf displayed on a massive canvas in Adliya. The Concordia University graduate, who has a Bachelor's degree in fine arts, is the eighth artist to take part in the event, which kicked off two months ago with a canvas displayed outside Al Riwaq Art and Culture Centre. The oil-based painter is interested in human behaviour and pop surrealism surrealism (sərē`əlĭzəm), literary and art movement influenced by Freudianism and dedicated to the expression of imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and free of convention. and often produces work relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc feminism feminism, movement for the political, social, and educational equality of women with men; the movement has occurred mainly in Europe and the United States. It has its roots in the humanism of the 18th cent. and in the Industrial Revolution. , dance and rave culture, electronic music, philosophy, dreams and religion and war. Ms Al Sahaf will begin painting today and will follow in the footsteps of fellow artists Jaffar Al Oraibi, Ahmed Anan, Waheeda Malullah and Yasmine Rasool, Sarah Al Aradi, Sayed Hassan Al Saari and Layla Al Rayes whose work has already adorned a·dorn tr.v. a·dorned, a·dorn·ing, a·dorns 1. To lend beauty to: "the pale mimosas that adorned the favorite promenade" Ronald Firbank. 2. the 7x5-metre canvas. The street art exhibition is taking place under the sponsorship of First Bahrain Real Estate Development Company, while the Al Riwaq Art and Culture Centre is under renovation. Ms Al Sahaf's work will be on display until next Friday Next Friday is the 2000 sequel to Friday , which depicts the neighborhood of South Los Angeles in a comedic sense. The hero, Craig Jones (Ice Cube), leaves home and moves in with his lottery winning and sex-crazed Uncle Elroy (Don "D.C." Curry) in Rancho Cucamonga. . Copyright 2009 Gulf Daily News Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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