Latakia-SANA
The Acrylic Painting Forum (feather and color), which is currently hosted in the National Museum park in Lattakia, celebrates the Syrian Arab Army's Day through 32 artworks that embodied some of our army's sacrifices and victories.
The forum, which comes in cooperation between Lattakia Governorate and the Directorates of Culture, Antiquities and Museums, was a ceremony with the participation of 12 plastic artists from the governorates of Damascus, Lattakia, Tartous, Aleppo and Hama. different.
The forum is part of a series of activities that bore different names (Jarh Watan), (Basmat Watan) and (Shaqa'iq al-Numan), which the plastic artist Ismail Totenji has been presenting and supervising annually, coinciding with national occasions.
The idea of these forums, according to Totunji, was launched with the beginning of the terrorist war on Syria, believing in the role of plastic artists in defending their homeland, each from its position, and to provide an opportunity for the new generation to interact with its national issues and document them through art, which is a lofty humanitarian message transmitted by generations.
Totunji saw in a statement to SANA reporter the importance of forums that allow supporting young talents and showing them to the public, pointing out that the forum attracted talented young women from different academic backgrounds (medicine, engineering and education) to present their visions in support of their artistic career.
For his part, Director of Latakia Culture Majd Sarem stated that the forum, which was prepared for it since the 24th of this month and concludes on the first of August, coinciding with the Syrian Arab Army Day, comes as a salute to loyalty and pride in the sacrifices and heroisms of our army, which defeated terrorism and its supporters, and as an artistic documentation of some pictures of these tournaments. For the next generations.
Sarem pointed out the directorate’s keenness to continuously organize artistic forums within the city of Latakia and its countryside in the context of supporting and attracting talent, while ensuring that each forum includes a new group of talented young people.
Zina Khaddam, 17 years old, participated in the forum with two works, one of which depicts the sacrifices of the army’s heroes to keep the flag of the nation fluttering, and another tells about the woman who saw in her participation an opportunity to celebrate the National Army Day, which wrote the greatest epics, and a space to show her talent and develop it through interaction with the rest of the participants.
In turn, Nisreen Othman, a graduate of the College of Education, who participated in two works, one of which is a tribute to our valiant army through the painting of the martyr, and another about women, described the forum as an important opportunity to exchange experiences, learn about different experiences and methods, and come up with works of art in front of the public.
Plastic artist and architect, Loris Hamdan, participated in two works in which she expressed her vision of Syria's civilization through the ancient Palmyra Theater, in addition to the female symbol of the homeland and life with the flow of water, which promises the next good.
