Which world does “Aïcha’s world” refer to? It is indeed the world of childhood: it comes closest to “Aïcha’s world”. When all the objects and figures are enormous and dominate the entire appearance of the imaginative power.
The idyllic scenes in between – those about a successful life, love, peace and rampant beauty – are painted by the other source of memory: the one that is used to build a refuge in order to withstand reality.
I can’t think of any artist who possesses such a fine sense for the distribution of weight in the quadrangle of the painting as Aïcha.
Aïcha didn’t study at the academy. She received no instruction in perspective and anatomy, in modeling with light and shade, in composition and color theory.