Painting Description: No 23

Painting Description: No 23

This artwork displays a central metaphoric image about Jawad Salim’s painting where two boys are eating watermelon. This image presents a perception of luck and fortune and doesn’t harmonize with the cold background that covers experimental photography scenes marked with calligraphies. Such calligraphy links the characters created by Jawad Salim’s that are the boys and the dead tree. This painting is also a reminder of Shubbar’s vision of the traffic lights after the occupation, as he never forgot to pinpoint to the military service and the invasion of US Marine Corps to Baghdad, in a way that nothing would be set into place again despite all structural lessons he acquired. However, Shubbar strives to forget his old lessons in order to invent something new as he wishes to. In fact, the artist provides a renovated metaphoric description of the entrenched legacy in the history of fine arts that includes the significance and conditions of the renovated art. It is worth-noting then that the renovated art creates the document and conveys the personality of the artist, rather than the documenter who is in charge of reporting the incidents like the camera lens. 

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