نساء الجزائر في منمنمات محمد راسم

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The artist Mohamed Racim is considered one of the symbols of miniature art in Algeria.

He used to promote his cultural identity in his paintings with attractive colors and shapes, and since he grew up in the Kasbah, he showed us with his brush the diaries of its residents and their celebrations.

The Algerian woman was present in his works, and she wore the most luxurious traditional clothes, including "karaku", "haik" and "ajjar" ...

But in one of his paintings he employed them in a way that is completely contrary to what we saw in his miniatures, He employed the female element in a scene that contradicts the culture of his country, especially since he grew up in a conservative area.

In this image, it appears to us how much he was influenced by Western Western artists, such as Picasso and Etienne Dennett, before he entered Islam, these artists derived their culture from their heritage, by photographing the human being stripped of his clothes to highlight the physical perfection ...

Since the artist Rasim shows the deviation of his artistic taste in one of his miniatures, we cannot say that he was encouraging the idea of settlement, because the majority of his works prove the opposite, indicating the extent to which he clings to his cultural identity and proves his affiliation with it in the painting “Prince Abdul Qadir” and “Naval Battle” “Houmt Sidi Al-Sharif”, “Inside the Mosque” and “This is the Buraq of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace”...