Rayan Yasmineh freely appropriates the codes of art history, consciously fluctuating between the perpetuation of tradition and the breach of conventions. In his portraits he combines Middle Eastern culture, mythologies and iconography with contemporary Western identities. His paintings bring together a profusion of ornamental details and shimmering colors with a masterful construction of lines and planes. By introducing anachronistic, contemporary and everyday life references among the profusion of ornamental details of Oriental heritage, he intertwines techniques and representations of supposedly opposite worlds