Tile Patterns and Scene Depictions of Customs and Traditions in the Paintings of Noureddine El Khayachi

Abstract

The topic of our research revolves around “the art of depicting court and the art of depicting daily life in the drawings of Nour al-Din al-Khayachi,” in which we adopted a descriptive and analytical method. The drawing blog was highlighted as an important chapter of image culture in Tunisian heritage in particular, so we chose one of the important blogs as a model. Because of its important wealth of artistic paintings related to history, heritage, and memory, and its ability to convey the visual and imaginative sense of the viewer at that time and today, and its revelation of spatial and temporal dimensions, so that Nour al-Din al-Khayachi’s drawings, with their various orientations, become a wide scope for readings, beginning to trace history and evoke heritage. And a taste for beauty. To enable us to demonstrate several results, perhaps the most important of which are: The uniqueness of the style adopted by the artist Nour El-Din Al-Khayachi, variation between two curves; Art for tiles and art for art's sake, the artist was influenced by European art and his father’s art to add his own touch to the history of Tunisian art, the contribution of Al-Khayachi’s drawings to expressing a historical and artistic era and the popular heritage stock it carries, as well as collective and national memory.