Artwork Title: My Hell

My Hell, 1951

Fahrelnissa Zeid

Artwork Title: My HellArtwork Title: My Hell
Zeid's monumental painting (more than five metres wide) was produced by tacking the canvas across two walls of her studio. Echoing her deep interest in abstract forms in Islamic art and architecture, she created a vast image of interlocking and undulating black and white shapes, dotted with vibrant red and yellow areas of colour. Describing her painting process, Zeid stated: Often, I am aware of what I have painted only when the canvas is at last finished. (http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/fahrelnissa-zeid-22764/lists/four-key-works) She was an artist of such “force and originality”, says Tate Modern, that it is astonishing that Fahrelnissa Zeid should have been practically forgotten. Now, in the first retrospective of its kind in the UK, Tate Modern hopes to lift the pioneering Turkish artist out of obscurity to ensure that she does not become yet another female artist forgotten by history. (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jun/12/fahrelnissa-zeid-tate-modern-resurrects-artist-forgotten-by-history)
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