All beauty is formed under the eye of God - كل الجمال يتشكل تحت عين الله - Limited Edition 1 of 10 Artwork

What you buy: "All beauty is formed under the eye of God" It must be stressed that what the buyer purchases in not a paper print. The work is printed using the highest quality available printing machines of the latest technology which use a 12 to 16 colour matrix The Artist employs a number of Museum Quality printers in various locations, both here in the US and overseas, in order speed the work to the buyer. More importantly, the Artist works with each Printer to achieve retain and enhance the integrity of the work. The result is a presentation which more than justifies the price. A work is always printed on a carefully chosen medium in key with and printed on a medium in key with the this case, the work will be printed on a Museum Quality Hahnemühle medium and mounted. The mount is of a superior and highly durable Archival quality material. The print is run to the bottom edge of the mount in order to present a work which retains its integrity should the work not be suitable for framing. Framing - at buyers discretion "All beauty is formed under the eye of God" can support a frame should the buyer choose to do so but this is discretionary. Should the buyer wish for the work to be framed before shipping, the Artist can work with a World Class Framer. The buyer needs be aware that this will add considerably to the cost and will take time. However, the results will merit the effort involved. Background There is long tradition in the Islamic World of beautiful and exquisitely executed painted scripts which have no equal. Medieval manuscripts are their closest contemporary. But, other than the likes those created for Le Duc de Berry, the Medieval works are, by and large, inept and clumsy. The script is clumsy and rigid, although in later times it improves. A better comparison would be with the Book Of Kells which is surely The Venus de Milo of that time. What distinguishes the Persian tradition is that each letter is treated in turn as an art form whereas in the Western Tradition the script is uniform. The artist has sought from the beginning to find a way of bringing the wonderful traditions of the past into the present and present them in a contemporary way that speaks to our time but contains within those works a resonance with the past. Inspiration While completing another work which employs numerals, the obvious connection was made that the numerals we use throughout almost the entire world are Arabic in origin. Paradoxically, the Arabs have a numeral script of their own, though rarely seen in the outside world. Description Besides the black border, a character from the font collection of Amin Sughayer, a well known font founder from Egypt is used as a backdrop. The name of the font is Aayat Quraan, meaning "Verses from the Koran" in English. The poem in Arabic forming the title is superimposed on the backdrop. "All beauty is formed under the eye of God," is original to the Artist and has no known source.