Merging life and art
For me, expressing reactions to life through paint is the experience that merges art and life. I paint the human form, the most important phenomenon in the universe and a major source of inspiration....
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Expanding horizons
G.N. Kazi harbours no romantic illusions about the image of a starving artist. Sure enough, two days into the opening of this prolific artist’s new show at Zenaini, the exhibition was...
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Treasure among the ruins
Christine Kapinski, a prominent French archeologist associated with the governmental think tank Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and one of the last members of her profession to abandon her work in Iraq...
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Sticking to their styles
Yet another exhibition of watercolours, this time at Momart Gallery, reaffirmed the general observation that the watercolour genre, which took off with much promise in the ‘90s has lost its momentum....
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Enchanting forms
“Art is the process of thinking, the artist raises issues he does not offer solutions.” So remarked Shahid Rassam recently while preparing for an exhibition of paintings: ‘Life is a Dome...
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A refreshing palette
Newness in art is a concept of western Modernist thought that was perhaps one of the by-products of existentialism. Moving to the very edge of that expression have been the more...
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