Artist Mohammad Ais Bin Abdul Aziz looks at the Holy Kaaba, the Prophet’s Mosque and the Dome of the Rock Mosque from a different angle and the most illuminating and symbolic aspect in his works is peace, which is represented by the pigeons living around these holy mosques. He draws with a single group of colors with the intention of projecting his central theme. Although he looks at the places from a particular angle, his works do not miss the brightness and grandeur of the places as it appears either in the middle or in the right or left side of the canvas. This luminous quality appears more strongly in the works of Erina Conda especially in her painting on the Prophet’s Mosque. She presents a closer look while painting the Holy Kaaba and the Dome of the Rock Mosque. Conda’s works resembles the paintings of Adeyemi Abdulfattah Adeyemi , who portrayed his view from a different angle. However, his painting of the Haram Mosque in Makkah is different in color application, which is very close to one of Zul’s paintings. Zul is an artist who selects a group of colors for each work, reminiscent of sunset scenes. Shahnoza Muminova , another participating artist, tries to project the historical significance of the places by adding symbols. We find in her paintings, symbols that take us to the history of Islam and the holy places. In the painting on the Prophet’s Mosque, for example, we can see the picture of a man and a camel as if she was recollecting the Migration (Hijrah) of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) or the journey of pilgrims for Haj in the olden days. In another painting of the Haram Mosque surrounded by buildings and mountains, one can see horses, men and battle a bit far from the mosque as if she wanted to narrate the history of the dawn of Islam and the Muslim struggle. The works of Mohamed Korish also reflect the influence of history and word and the shining pictures. The crowds of people wearing local dresses or traditional Arab attires show his concept about the places by bringing to our mind those colorful pictures. His paintings emphasize the effect of light and movement that make scenes more lively and attractive. Korish also adds to the picture a
kind of marvelous luminosity that makes the Holy Kaaba and the Dome of the Prophet’s Mosque brilliant and magnificent.
On the other hand, Artist Abdallah Hamas’ painting represents the scenes of the holy places forcefully by adding colors and artistic decorations that resembled his unique style. He is among those artists who try to highlight their main theme through lights. Some other participating artists have also adopted the same style but they differed on the source of that light; for some it was the place itself while for some others it was a light from the sky. The portrait of Abdullah AI-Shalti focuses on color treatment based on reflection, but it took another course withwhite dominating the colors he uses to project the architecture of the places and their surroundings. His treatment of colors looks marvelous while depicting themovement of pilgrims around the Holy Kaaba. Similar color presentations can be seen in some other paintings of Al-Shalti . The hallmark of his works, which is color treatment, can be found in all the three paintings, where the artist puts specific brilliant color touches to denote the movement of people, especially in areas surrounding the mosque. The portrayal of places with forceful color treatment enhances their vitality. In the paintings of Mohamed Al-Shammery , one can observe that the elements are summarized to a great extent. He has divided his paintings into three areas with one color and same features that give only suggestions and indications without direct expressions. The artist summarizes his idea with the aid of a large amount of black color embroidered with gold in order to represent the Holy Kaaba. The minaret and the golden color represent the Dome of the Rock Mosque while two tall minarets embracing the sky with gold, blue and black colors relate to the artist’s opinion of our holy places. On the other hand, he borrowed some words in order to indicate the places and emphasize his ideas. Here he is trying to differentiate himself from the other participants who adopted direct expression concerning place and its influences as opposed to searching for the idea and extracting it through material evidence.
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