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Mathematical Law of the Painting
In Nawar’s entire career, including painting, we cannot neglect the
idea of the mathematical law of the painting. Perhaps we can re-
late the creative experience of Nawar with the sayings of some
aestheticians, who acknowledged that all the laws of painting have
a mathematical nature; each art school has its mathematical sys-
tem. The sense of beauty through mathematics must take us back
at least to the time of Pythagoras; the relationship between math-
ematics and the art of painting is a certain relationship discussed
by many studies.
This mathematical nature is found in Nawar’s artworks. He pres-
ents sequences of sharp geometric surfaces, significantly pure
buildings, graphic lines, spatial geometric drawings, and mathe-
matical networks of intersecting lines that sometimes thin to be-
come sharp and precise, and other times turn into linear mod-
els mounted on the surface or bright abstract spaces, with tones
varying from white to black to give the senses of approaching and
departing, progress and regression. The artist uses diagonal lines
and planes to show the content of the depicted elements and its
relationship to the tension in space through the movement of the
diagonal shape placed in a vibrant relationship with the other parts
of the picture. Sometimes the artist makes the directions of the
surfaces inclined or deviated, creating a kind of optical illusion
by heading towards the depth or the interior, especially that he
sometimes draws shapes occupying their positions in suggestive
Man and Energy , digital print , 2012
145
In Nawar’s entire career, including painting, we cannot neglect the
idea of the mathematical law of the painting. Perhaps we can re-
late the creative experience of Nawar with the sayings of some
aestheticians, who acknowledged that all the laws of painting have
a mathematical nature; each art school has its mathematical sys-
tem. The sense of beauty through mathematics must take us back
at least to the time of Pythagoras; the relationship between math-
ematics and the art of painting is a certain relationship discussed
by many studies.
This mathematical nature is found in Nawar’s artworks. He pres-
ents sequences of sharp geometric surfaces, significantly pure
buildings, graphic lines, spatial geometric drawings, and mathe-
matical networks of intersecting lines that sometimes thin to be-
come sharp and precise, and other times turn into linear mod-
els mounted on the surface or bright abstract spaces, with tones
varying from white to black to give the senses of approaching and
departing, progress and regression. The artist uses diagonal lines
and planes to show the content of the depicted elements and its
relationship to the tension in space through the movement of the
diagonal shape placed in a vibrant relationship with the other parts
of the picture. Sometimes the artist makes the directions of the
surfaces inclined or deviated, creating a kind of optical illusion
by heading towards the depth or the interior, especially that he
sometimes draws shapes occupying their positions in suggestive
Man and Energy , digital print , 2012
145
