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Summer,
2001
Darat
Al Funun Summer Academy
Qassab has held numerous solo exhibitions
throughout the world, among them at Paris' Bibliotheque Nationale
and the Institute du Monde Arab. Qassab shows through his
paintings the pain of human soul and its aspirations, and
has 23 paintings at Darat Al Funun.
The human being in a state of excitement and grief at the
same time is among his hallmarks. The
faces he portrays are always ideal, unique and anonymous all
at once.
"Through the colors and faces, I speak my senses and express
my vision of things, the state of my heart," said the artist.
He uses different angles and colorful symbols to attract observers
from the first glimpse, and believes art is an "attempt to
question the visual process.
" According to him, the artist lends his dream to the viewer
with every work he presents, "but when standing in front of
a painting one sees his own dream.
" Schwedes was born in 1950 in Berlin, where she studied art.
She is spellbound by the magic of Petra, and her 46 paintings
bring viewers closer to the magic and charm of Jordan's landscape.
Schwedes says that "piercing art with inner feelings is a
process that requires total concentration and truthfulness
by the artist to produce the best product.
She added that men usually look at things from a very shallow
angle. "Man only strives to understand what is obviously visible.
Two abstract paintings called "Eve" show rich red, green and
blue brushstrokes colors of nature, colors of nature, as she
calls them- covering most of the white canvas while leaving
patches of it. Nature, according to Schwedes, "is the womb
where we come from and end."
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