A Painting from Hama
What unusual substance was used to make this painting? This talk considers a monochrome painting on paper made in 2005, and discusses the cultural significance of the substance used in the paint.
Figure 1.Painting on paper by Sameer Tanbur. Hama, 2005. Private collection, Victoria.
Figure 2. Detail of the painting.
Figure 3. Etched print on paper by Sameer Tanbur. Hama, c. 2005. Private collection, Victoria.
Figure 4. Stereoscopic photograph showing the smoking of water pipes (narghiles) in a coffee house in Jerusalem. Photograph taken c. 1900–20. American Colony, Jerusalem. Photographic Department. G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: LC-M32-569 (P&P).
Figure 5: Bedouin in Jordan making coffee. Photograph taken in about 1936. American Colony, Jerusalem. Photographic Department. G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: LC-M33-4009.
- For a short account of Modernist art across the Islamic world, see: Juliet Highet, ‘Modernist Awakening,’ AramcoWorldMarch/April 2019.