What better way to please a woman like gifting her a cosmetic stuff like lip sticks.She would easily fall prey to such gifting ideas and feel on the top of the world.This was what artist Amer Shomali also had in his mind.He gave a fitting tribute to Palestinian revolutionary Leila Khaled by making a portrait of her using 3500 lipsticks of 14 colours.
Art has no boundaries.The concept was to pay tribute to her who rather had became a poster girl after she had hijacked an air plane on August 29, 1969.
The famous photo of Leila Khaled holding an AK-47 and wearing a kaffiyeh, taken by Eddie Addams as a reference was taken. Amer Shomali created a sort of canvas out of lipstick holders and then arranged 3,500 lipsticks of 14 different colors to best recreate the Palestinian icon’s visage. Called “Icon”, Shomali’s artwork was featured in an art exhibition organized at Birzeit University.Presented at Framed-Unframed exhibition, the project was aligned to the overall theme of the event, which was “a critical exploration of visual artists’ changing representations of Palestinian women”.
The image of the revolutionary was unveiled at the Birzeit Art Exhibition in Palestine on July 9,2012 .A different dimension to art made us to include and honour this one .
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