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The plastic artist, Lina Deeb, was influenced by the civilization of our ancient ancestors, which was used by her artistic queen as a modernist template linking the past with the present.
Lina's works are full of dialogue between the old and the new, the East and the West, sometimes using the earthy color that reminds us of heritage, temples, monuments, castles and phoenixes, and the blue color, which at other times promises hope.
About her artistic experience, Lina explained in an interview with Sana Cultural on the sidelines of her exhibition at Subhi Shuaib Gallery for Fine Arts in Homs that she relied at the beginning of her work on graphic art (engraving and printing) and because of the lack of a professional specializing in this art that needs various equipment, she tended to make hand seals in her studio. The private.
The next step in Lina's experience was to enter the field of oil painting, and to combine it with seals, and her paintings showed a graphic sense, which gave her an added aesthetic.
Lina, who embodied Ishtar the goddess of love and beauty in many of her paintings, shows that her studies for masters in the Faculty of Fine Arts, her reading of history books, and her residence near Ugarit Valleys in Lattakia made her aware of the importance of devoting the artist's civilization in his creations to serve as a message addressed to others with the aim of introducing the legacy of the ancestors.
Lina was also affected by the nature in our country, in which she found material for her work, so she used tree bark and carving on metal and linenum in most of her works, which gave her more distinction.
In her work, Lina also devotes women as a symbol of giving and the basis for building man and society and granting happiness despite her suffering with life, which makes her a source of artistic inspiration in its various manifestations, from the mother of the martyr to the female who contemplates around her and is renewed with hope for life.
It is noteworthy that the artist Lina Deeb holds a master's degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts and won the first prize in graphic art in 2005 and appreciation awards for her plastic artistic contributions inside and outside Syria and her design of book covers issued by the Ministry of Culture and publishing houses and participated in the International Venice Biennale in Italy in the 2017 Biennial. Tunisia for Arab Art in 2019 and Carthage Days for Contemporary Art and other art exhibitions and forums
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