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Lot Essay
Among the most famous Moroccan female painters of the 20th Century, Chaïbia Talal became known for her brightly coloured stylised works that focused on portraits of women. With the intuition of her dreams, Talal took them as inspiration and began to visualise them. She adapted to her thoughts and began translating them into consistent, vivid artworks as seen in the present work.
In this work, Untitled, Talal uses her usual techniques of depicting the floating face present within the painting. The portrait of the woman is rather a close up which emphasises the perspective she has focused on. The bright, open colour palette used emphasises the culture and unconsciously tells more about her surroundings. The free brushstrokes used within not only this work but almost all her works depicts the freedom she chooses to follow from within while avoiding all the rules of painting and not restricting herself.
Talal was known to be one to approach the idea of painting only with positivity. She created a different school of thought which followed on the basis of simplicity and originality, creating an example for other painters of her time as well as forming a comparison between her works and other greater well-known painters, despite being accused of lacking originality.
Talal was born in 1929, in a small village near El Jadida, Morroco. She was married young at the age of thirteen and widowed a couple of years later, leaving her with one son Hossein, who is also a painter. However, this didn’t stop Talal from embracing the world of colours and painting, creating a very rich body of Naïve art, works that are very detailed with brilliant saturated colours.
Art critic Pierre Gaudibert paid her visit to her home in 1965. Greatly impressed by her work and self-created techniques, by the following year, Talal began to receive a place within the art world. Talal exhibited her works nationally and internationally including to name only a few, at the Solstice Gallery as well as the Salon des Surindépendants in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. In 2003, she received in Paris the Golden medal from the society of the French Academy of Education and Encouragement.
In this work, Untitled, Talal uses her usual techniques of depicting the floating face present within the painting. The portrait of the woman is rather a close up which emphasises the perspective she has focused on. The bright, open colour palette used emphasises the culture and unconsciously tells more about her surroundings. The free brushstrokes used within not only this work but almost all her works depicts the freedom she chooses to follow from within while avoiding all the rules of painting and not restricting herself.
Talal was known to be one to approach the idea of painting only with positivity. She created a different school of thought which followed on the basis of simplicity and originality, creating an example for other painters of her time as well as forming a comparison between her works and other greater well-known painters, despite being accused of lacking originality.
Talal was born in 1929, in a small village near El Jadida, Morroco. She was married young at the age of thirteen and widowed a couple of years later, leaving her with one son Hossein, who is also a painter. However, this didn’t stop Talal from embracing the world of colours and painting, creating a very rich body of Naïve art, works that are very detailed with brilliant saturated colours.
Art critic Pierre Gaudibert paid her visit to her home in 1965. Greatly impressed by her work and self-created techniques, by the following year, Talal began to receive a place within the art world. Talal exhibited her works nationally and internationally including to name only a few, at the Solstice Gallery as well as the Salon des Surindépendants in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. In 2003, she received in Paris the Golden medal from the society of the French Academy of Education and Encouragement.