Damascus-Sana
The plastic artist Ezz El-Din Hemat died at the age of eighty-two, after suffering with illness.
And the late Hemat was born in the Midan neighborhood in Damascus in 1938, he grew up in an Arab house from which he acquired the aesthetics of the Damascene house, to start the career of painting from his early youth and learn art and the principles of drawing and mixing colors in a special way. He obtained her university degree in 1963, and then he established with a number of young artists a group of drawing from nature to then participate in art exhibitions and obtain the first prize in the Damascus University exhibition and then registered a local and international presence through several individual exhibitions of his paintings in cultural centers, galleries and art galleries in Syria and a number One of the capitals of the world.
Critics classify Hemat among the first artists who sensed early on the aesthetics of the popular Damascene neighborhoods and the attractiveness of local architecture without engaging in the study of art academically. There was no college or institutes of fine arts, but through artistic practice and reading, he developed a professional artistic experience that made him undertake the task of documenting and codifying aesthetic Architecture, nature and Damascene gardens, and transferring them through his art and painting to the world.
The deceased is a member of the Syrian and Arab Plastic Artists Union, the Society of Friends of Art, and his works are acquired in the National Museum of Damascus, in Arab and foreign museums, and in private collections.