Maha Zaghloul, a Jordanian artist born in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, braids the ropes of her sensitive feeling and overflowing emotions with colors, transforming her silence into a stark, revolutionary expression that is evident in her painting for the reader. This is what prompted me to read one of her works, which is a painting entitled “Wandering Souls,” which is an abstract work in which the artist relied The oil on canvas technique shows an abstraction of five people through semi-circles that express the heads of the people, with curved lines descending from them suggesting human bodies. As for the lines, they combine horizontal and vertical lines and break the lines to suggest aggression and cruelty, as if the artist is paving the way for the scream that she sees inside her to show its echo on the surface. The painting has its own shapes and colors and thus goes from elevation, righteousness, power, strength and spirituality to gravity.
Most of the lines were horizontal and vertical, with a fixed and stable effect, as if they suggested buildings or intermittent historical, social, or private life images. In her perception of the visual world and its resemblance to reality, the artist adopted a mixture of hot and cold colors, creating a formal and color dispersion in which she highlighted large values ​​of light through the overwhelming white color on the surface of the painting.
The white squares resulting from the intersections of lines and the background mixed between hot and cold colors symbolize instability and express the depths of the artist who yearns to move color and interrogate it within the painting. The artist is considered romantic to the extreme, as she chooses consistency in shape and color across the entire surface of the painting.
Wandering souls