Gebran Tarazi, Untitled, from the series Qayem-Nyem, 36 Thèmes Dérivés: oiseaux, 1998, Acrylic on Wood, 67 x 67 cm.

Gerban Tarazi, was a Lebanese artist, who was born in 1944 and died in 2010. Tarazi was widely known as being at the forefront of Arab artists working with geometry, and he was known for his vibrant and vivid use of color as well as the incorporation of geometric abstraction with oriental identity in his works. Tarazi used acrylic on wood in the above artworks, using shades of pink to emphasize the movement of these abstracted geometric shapes, this type of technique gives the artwork a sense of 3D as well as motion. He also used blue and yellow lines to separate each shape, giving the artwork a mosaic sensation where each part looks like one tile stuck to the other. However, Tarazi chose a different movement direction in all these art works. The first artwork, for example, focuses on the middle horizontal line on which the shapes are perfectly attached to each other, whereas the above and lower lines each shape follows a different direction, making them look detached. The second piece of artwork has a great sense of rhythm because all the shapes are aligned nicely from the top right to the bottom left, giving it a sense of motion as if these shapes are moving downwards. Furthermore, in the third artwork, Tarazi employs the centered format. Although the focus is on the center point of the artwork, Tarazi did not only focus on the middle line as he did in the first artwork, but he used all of these shapes to be in the same direction moving towards the middle, making it look like one big abstracted geometrical shape. In addition, unlike the previous work, in the fourth and last artwork Tarazi did not select a specific focal point in this work, instead allowing each shape to face in a different direction at random.