Slimanmansour.com has just released the 2026 calendar, featuring a collection of artworks. Link to the website is in bio.
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Checkpoint (حاجز), oil on canvas, 2013
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Al-Quds (القدس), watercolors on paper, 1981
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Slimanmansour.com has just released the 2026 calendar, featuring a collection of artworks. Link to the website is in bio.
#slimanmansour #suleimanmansour #palestinian #palestine #freepalestine #palestina #سليمان_منصور
Slimanmansour.com has just released the 2026 calendar, featuring a collection of artworks. Link to the website is in bio.
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Mother of the martyr (أم الشهيد), oil on canvas, 1983
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A nightmare of the hyenas (كابوس الضباع), oil on canvas, 1979
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Woman in an orange grove (إمرأة في بستان البرتقال), oil on canvas, 2013
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In Palestinian painter Sliman Mansour’s "Quiet Morning," a weathered Palestinian woman with enlarged hands sits in front of an olive tree that has been wrapped in barbed wire. Olive trees are extremely important to the Palestinian people. They are a hearty and resilient plant that can send deep roots into the earth and live for centuries. Family olive trees are passed down from generation to generation, and tended and cared for by the same family for hundreds of years. In art around the world, they have long been a symbol of peace, and this is no less true for the Palestinian artist. But it has become more than peace. It is a longing for peace, a longing for prosperity once again, a resistance to the occupation, and an unfaltering connection of the people to their homeland. For obvious reasons, barbed wire has been used heavily post-1948 in Palestinian art. Refugee camps are surrounded by barbed wire, and borders that are uncrossable, barring entry for a people in exile. A symbol of oppression, Palestinian artists use barbed wire often to contain once beautiful images, like a mother nursing a baby, but with both wrapped tightly in barbed wire. With the olive tree encased in barbed wire. The image is jarring and visceral. You can feel the spikes as they dig into what should be an image of peace, thereby warping it into something that screams pain, martyrdom, suffering, and perhaps inspires revolution. Source: Lydia Medeiros - A Lesson on the Powerful Symbolism Found in Palestinian Art ===== Mansour is considered a leading figure among contemporary Palestinian artists and an artist of intifada (resistance) whose work captures the cultural concept of sumud (steadfastness or perseverance). His paintings which have been exhibited around the world reflect the Palestinian struggle and include images of women in Palestinian traditional clothing and Levantine tree-filled landscapes.
Quiet Morning by Suleiman Mansour (Palestinian) - Oil on canvas / 2009 - Barjeel Art Foundation (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) #womeninart #oilpainting #art #SuleimanMansour #artwork #BarjeelArtFoundation #womensart #beauty #sumud #PalestinianArtist #PalestinianArt #portraitofawoman #fineart
