Muhammad Subuh is an artist who used the pedestrian sidewalk at Jableh Corniche as the surface of his painting

Lattakia-Sana

On the sidewalk at the Corniche of the Sea in the city of Jableh, the plastic artist Mohamed Subuh paints without paying attention to the passers-by who are gathered around him to express an artistic state that can only be explained by the colors of every passing by looking at it and the painting that was a short while ago a path for hikers and passers-by.

This painting that Subuh paints on the side of the road is part of a program he started a year and a half ago called "An Artistic Bout" that aims to encourage the younger generation to beautify and reduce the impact of the suffering of art practitioners and spread it among the people. It is an expression of a state of art at a time when interest in the value of The artwork and its acquisition and frequenting exhibitions, although the place he chose to draw his painting does not help much in the painting’s permanence.

He then explained to Sana that the painting he is now painting by a Swiss artist named Angelica Kaufman who lived between the 18th and 19th centuries and was famous for drawing direct portraits, pointing out that what he does is what he is doing inside him and wants to deliver it to an audience that does not attend galleries or galleries because he is busy with his livelihood and his daily suffering and with That is, he looks at him with amazement, which indicates the presence of the aesthetic factor within him.

Subuh believes that most artists are afraid to go out into the street and paint so as not to be accused of imitation and working on an idea that is not theirs, knowing that the idea belongs to everyone.

Subuh's message from his artistic shift is not about the existence of art and its challenge despite all the circumstances that the artist and the Syrian citizen live in, but rather an expression of the feeling experienced by the artist, indicating that we need art to restore somewhat what is inside us so as not to transfer the distortion that afflicted us to our children.

In the conclusion of the conversation, Subuh said that the artistic shift project he is working on might make a change in the ways of dealing with this suffering that the Syrians are experiencing to make it lighter.

Bilal Ahmad