Painting Under Glass: Technique and plastic Dimensions

Abstract

This study stabs to highlight the most important characteristics of painting under glass, its concepts and techniques, throughout the study of the technical and visual experience of the Syrian distinctive painter (Abu Subhi Tinawi), starting from a basic idea snitch in between, constituting a contradiction; its conclusion that these drawings, which according to standards of the academic art, lacks a lot of skill and keenness, instituting in the other hand, the case of uniqueness, peculiarity and variance.

The research, also shows impulsiveness and spontaneity in Tinawi paintings, as well as the effects of Islamic style drawing in this sort of art, and makes firm footing at the fine line between painting under glass and academic drawing, and concludes with interrogations about the importance of these minutiae that lead us in turn to the challenging of tradition and modernity, and the problems of utilizing them in contemporary plastic art.

Key words: Painting under glass, Folk art, Spontaneity