Josep Tapiró Baró — Moorish Man | Orientalist Portrait Print

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Josep Tapiró Baró — Moorish Man | Orientalist Portrait PrintJosep Tapir Bar (18361913) was a Spanish Orientalist painter who spent much of his career in Tangier, Morocco, becoming one of the most insightful portraitists of North African subjects in 19th century art. His Moorish portraits elders, merchants, guards, women have an intimacy and psychological penetration that distinguishes them from the more theatrical strand of Orientalism. Working in watercolour and oil with equal mastery, he produced a body of

produced over five centuries in Herat

Together they represent Symbolism's concern with the life of the soul

His views of Venice — luminous

architecture

converting to Islam

His angular figures

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was the originator of purely non-objective painting — the artist who first made a fully abstract work and theorised its spiritual and psychological basis in Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911)

and exquisite pattern

and stripped-back compositions anticipated Art Deco by a generation

spiders — rank among the most psychologically disturbing graphic works of the early 20th century

the Victoria & Albert Museum

calligrapher

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