ADEL DAUOOD
(b. 1980) Adel Dauood is a Syrian artist that transitions between abstraction and concreteness, expressionism and surrealism, colour explosion and reduction. His small-format paper works are home to fabulous beasts: dangerous and yet friendly they inhabit the roughened paper plane with their long, entwined legs, pointed teeth and numerous eyes and udders. But of late, these small formats and the black and white of ink or charcoal on paper are not enough to satisfy them – “they need more space and colour”, Dauood says. So they have broken out and now increasingly accompany the humanlike figures in Dauood’s large-sized, bright-coloured oil and acrylic paintings. Dauood does not make mimetic portraits of concrete persons. He gets to know them only while painting them and burns the midnight oil with them. They are portraits of human nature or humanity itself, portraits of felt, sensed, lived and imagined lives. Dauood’s inspiration pieces his pictures together: a foot here, a face there, arms growing out of a vortex of lines, body parts and bright colours. The fact that banal fragments of reality are consistently found in Dauood’s artistic works – slippers, taps or bowls – underlines how his scenes are formed somewhere between the artistic space and the living space, as well as, reality and fantasy.
Inspired by the flood
Transforming movement
and color
into sound.
Purity of Soul
2020
Acrylic on canvas
59.1 x 55.1 in. / 150 x 140 cm.
Price on request
Sunset
2020
Acrylic on canvas
59.1 x 55.1 in. / 150 x 140 cm.
Price on request
Waiting
2020
Acrylic on canvas
59.1 x 55.1 in. / 150 x 140 cm.
Price on request
Portrait
2020
Acrylic on Canvas
47.2 x 39.4 in. / 120 x 100 cm.
Price on request
Untitled 'Beige'
2019
Acrylic on canvas
59.1 x 51.2 in. / 150 x 130 cm.
SOLD
Untitled 'Orange'
2019
Acrylic on canvas
59.1 x 51.2 in. / 150 x 130 cm.
SOLD
Portrait
2019
Acrylic on Canvas
27.6 x 26.8 in. / 70 x 68 cm.
Price on request
Hallucination
2019
Acrylic on Canvas
59.1 x 55.1 in. / 150 x 140 cm.
Price on request
Self Portrait
2018
Acrylic on Canvas
55.1 x 55.1 in. / 140 x 140 cm.
Price on request
Big Blue
2018
Acrylic on canvas
59.1 x 59.1 in. / 150 x 150 cm.
SOLD
Damned Souls (I)
2016
Mixed media and pen on paper
Signed 'Adel Dauood' and dated '2016' (lower right)
7.75 x 7.75 in. / 20 x 20 cm.
$1500 USD
Damned Souls (II)
2016
Mixed media and pen on paper
Signed 'Adel Dauood' and dated '2016' (lower right)
7.75 x 7.75 in. / 20 x 20 cm.
$1500 USD
Untitled
2016
Acrylic on Canvas
51.2 x 51.2 in. / 130 x 130 cm.
SOLD
Untitled
2016
Oil and acrylic on canvas
66.9 x 57.1 in. / 170 x 145 cm.
SOLD
The Last Supper
2016
Oil and a crylic on canvas
51.2 x 55.1 in. / 130 x 140 cm.
SOLD
Blue
2016
Acrylic on canvas
51.2 x 55.1 in. / 130 x 140 cm.
SOLD
Relax
2015
Oil on Canvas
51.2 x 33.5 in. / 130 x 85 cm.
Price on request
Bride
2020
Acrylic on canvas
55.1 x 47.2 in. / 140 x 120 cm.
Price on request
Shyness
2020
Acrylic on canvas
55.1 x 47.2 in. / 140 x 120 cm.
SOLD
Portrait
2020
Acrylic on Canvas
59.1 x 55.1 in. / 150 x 140 cm.
Price on request
Shame
2020
Acrylic on Canvas
55.1 x 51.2 in. / 140 x 130 cm.
Price on request
Self Portrait
2020
Acrylic on Canvas
51.2 x 59.1 in. / 130 x 150 cm.
SOLD
Between the Clouds
2020
Acrylic on Canvas
55.1 x 51.2 in. / 140 x 130 cm.
Price on request
Break
2020
Acrylic on canvas
55.1 x 51.2 in. / 140 x 130 cm.
SOLD
Whisper
2019
Acrylic on canvas
59.1 x 51.2 in. / 150 x 130 cm.
Price on request
Conflict
2019
55.1 x 47.2 in. / 140 x 120 cm.
Acrylic on canvas
SOLD
Meditation
2019
Acrylic on canvas
59.1 x 59.1 in. / 150 x 150 cm.
SOLD
Untitled
2018
Acrylic on Canvas
66.9 x 27.6 in. / 170 x 70 cm.
Price on request
Dialogue
2016
Oil on canvas
55.1 x 51.2 x in. / 140 x 130 cm.
SOLD
Isolation
2016
Oil on canvas
51.2 x 51.2 in. / 130 x 130 cm.
SOLD