Art in Qatar between Modernism and Postmodernism: Yousef Ahmed as a Case Study
الملخص
The article discusses the development of art and art movements in Qatar.
Throughout the paper, I examine modern and postmodern arts and highlight the roles of
different factors that could influence artists in their move between modern and
postmodern art and vise-versa. The forms of art developed during the modernist and
postmodern periods were influenced by the traits of the people. For example, the
modernists constantly searched for the abstract truth of life, while the postmodernists did
not believe in the abstract truth.
It is important to recognize that postmodern culture is a reaction against the culture
of modernism. The works of postmodern artists create reality, whereas those of
modernist artists reflect reality. During history, political crisis, natural crisis, economic
development and social move have always played fundamental roles in art practice and
movement in the world. Through studying art movement of the Qatari artist Yousef
Ahmed and his transitions between modern and postmodern art, this paper nalyzes the
reasons that might drove post-modern artists to look back at modernism. The paper
addresses this question: why did Yousef Ahmed return to modernism after his huge
success as a postmodernist artist? Through looking at the question, we realized that the
reason for such move it could be the individuals’ real experiences in the real world.
Yousef Ahmed had to look back to modernism to move from metaphor to reality so that
he could better express his attachment to his culture.
DOI/handle
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