The Terrace Wave

In the grammar of the Casablanca School · Grammar of 1962 onward · Casablanca

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Original Berbernest composition

black with a mount · Casablanca · Grammar of 1962 onward

Black · actual frame finishProdigi’s product photograph. Flat 20 mm face, 22 mm depth, with a snow-white mount.

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40 × 50 cm · Black frame & mount

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Moulding: Classic satin-laminated wood, 20 mm face and 22 mm depth
Glaze: Acrylic / Perspex, matching the exact framed SKU we order
Mount: 2.4 mm snow-white conservation board, sustainably sourced and acid-free
Mount width: About 50 mm on every side, derived from the live artwork area
Paper: Enhanced Matte Art paper, 200 gsm, printed giclée
Hanging: Delivered framed and ready to hang, with a Cobra hook at these sizes

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About this composition

The wave is the form the Casablanca painters kept returning to: a hard-edged band, flat colour, no modelling, borrowed from craft rather than from Europe. In 1962, six years after independence, Farid Belkahia took over the Casablanca art school and threw out the colonial syllabus; with Melehi, Chabâa, Toni Maraini and Bert Flint he built a modernism out of zellij, carpets and tattoos, and explicitly against orientalist figuration. None of their canvases are reproduced here and none can be. The argument is what we take.

Flat vermilion, saffron, indigo

Inspired by Moroccan modernism

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The artists of this movement are still in copyright and none of their paintings are reproduced here. What we take is the grammar — the flat fields, the hard edge, the refusal of the easel — the way a painter takes a manner without taking a picture.

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