An abstract city grid of vivid red streets and blue structures questions the human cost beneath urban progress.
Drawing directly from the artist’s reflection on developed cities, the painting examines urban progress alongside its overlooked human consequences. Its dense streets, buildings, and infrastructural forms suggest shiny modern development while asking who bears the hidden price of city life.
The work uses an abstract, semi-geometric visual language to translate an urban landscape into layered blocks, routes, and architectural marks. Repeated outlined motifs resemble circuitry, street plans, or building facades, combining expressive brushwork with an organized, diagrammatic structure.
This painting would suit a contemporary living room, loft, creative studio, office reception, or urban-inspired dining area. Its bold red palette and graphic energy work particularly well against neutral walls, industrial materials, modern furniture, and spaces intended to encourage conversation and reflection. This artwork will complement any room or space beyond those mentioned, depending on individual preference.
The mood is energetic, restless, and thought-provoking rather than celebratory. Bright colour initially conveys metropolitan glamour and movement, yet the crowded grid and scratched, layered surfaces introduce tension, confinement, and unease, reinforcing the artist’s questions about progress and social cost.
A network of thick white vertical and horizontal passages organizes the canvas like roads or city blocks. Within these divisions, dark outlined shapes, patterned panels, and stacked forms create visual congestion. The all-over arrangement keeps the eye moving through an interconnected urban maze.
Intense crimson, magenta, and deep pink dominate the surface, creating the impression of a vibrant yet pressurized metropolis. Cool navy, turquoise, black, and pale white contrasts define the structural elements, while muted grey passages soften and weather the otherwise electric palette.
City Life is a original handmade painting made by Art by poorab. This painting is made with mixed media colors on canvas. This artwork is signed by artist, and accompanied with the Certificate of Authenticity. The width of the painting is 24 inches, and its height is 18 inches.
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Cities- big, developed cities, shiny posh streets , buildings and skyscrapers of all sizes and shapes. the best of development. but what is the real cost of these cities? who really pays that price? in this painting, I try to work through some of the questions that haunt my heart, and the mind choses to ignore.
Ideally paintings don't require much care as its a vertical surface, hence dust doesn't settle quite easily. You can gently dry dust the painting once in a month. You can also gently use a slightly damp cloth and dab it gently over the surface to capture the dust particles. You can do this once in 6 months.
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