AMMAN, 14th March, 2017 (WAM) -- The Sharjah-based Barjeel Art Foundation last week inaugurated "Lines of Subjectivity", an exhibition of works from its permanent collection at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman. Bilal Rabie Bilal Al Bodour, UAE Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, attended the opening which was held under the patronage of Princess Rym al-Ali, founder of the Jordan Media Institute, and Princess Wijdan Ali, founder of the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts.

Curated by Suheyla Takesh and Dr. Khalid Khreis, this exhibition explores the development of landscape painting and portraiture in the Arab World in the first half of the 20th century. It looks into evolving styles and approaches, as well as the artists subjective perspectives and understanding of the world.

The exhibition seeks to highlight the technical skill and craftsmanship that painting in the early 20th century involved, and to contextualise the development of formal simplification and abstraction, which occurred towards the middle of the century. It also aims to illustrate that the work of contemporary practitioners does not exist independently from its precedents, but has emerged as a result of a cumulative art history. "Lines of Subjectivity" will include works from artists from Armenia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, and others.

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