Portrait of a Belle

In the fifties and sixties, Shakir Hassan Al-Said continued to paint in a style that was inspired by his Mesopotamian environment, especially from the carpets and rugs that were woven by the weavers in rural and nomadic areas, which were considered a sign of the innate and primitive Mesopotamian art and the cultural and plastic treasure that accumulated in the Iraqi popular memory over thousands of years.
The artist uses a colored geometric composition that does not adhere to the proportions known in the painting, and uses an oil-infused brush to impart a rough texture to the work's surface. Despite the geometry of the painting in this work, it expresses spontaneity and primitive intentionality with which the artist wanted to show his adherence to his Mesopotamian style without Western references.