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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.