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Ali Riza
Ali Riza is an Orientalism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This Turkish painter spent years sketching Ottoman diplomats in European cafés, capturing their stiff velvet coats and sideways glances. He was the guy who noticed how a nobleman’s smoke curled exactly when the light hit the tiles at dusk. One of his studies, Nobleman Smoking on a Terrace, shows off that precise moment; the gold frame makes the haze look warm enough to touch. Why it matters: look at the way the tiles echo the tabletop, see it?
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