Aleppo-Sana
With the aim of highlighting the aesthetics of the Arabic letter, the plastic artist Khaldoun Al-Ahmad works in the lettering formations after a study on how to formulate the letter within the formation, color and oriental rhythm due to the softness and flexibility of the Arabic calligraphy in drawing.
Al-Ahmad, who studied art in a private study through the Fathi Muhammad Center for Fine Arts in the city of Aleppo, was inclined in his beginnings to realistic and then expressive painting, to be fascinated by the abstract school in its various manifestations, from which he moved to Al-Horfi art because through it he was able to embody the relationship of the letter with color and music in an abstract way.
In his interview with SANA correspondent in Aleppo, Al-Ahmad says, “I took the Arabic letter as the centerpiece of my plastic paintings and developed the idea of forming it by adding color formations to highlight its charms and beauty because it embodies our language that we are proud of.”
Al-Ahmad confirms that he studied a lot about the formation of the Arabic letter, its stillness, movements, rhythms, and its relationship with color, until he was able to form it within lettering paintings that embody a unique visual language with an oriental rhythm.
Al-Ahmad says about his calligraphy experience, “I am not a calligrapher, but I draw the letter aesthetically within the plastic work and through the color weaving of the colors of joy, love and beauty, which embodied our Arabic alphabet in a distinctive style.”
The artist Al-Ahmad has a lot of fine calligraphy paintings and exhibitions that embodied the vowel rhythms within paintings and models that he implemented and developed through which the plastic craft and its aesthetics, in addition to the dot paintings that were distinguished by their presence in his exhibitions because of their importance in the Arabic letter.
Al-Ahmad, who has taken a unique and distinctive plastic approach to the alphabet with its peculiarity and precious value, borrows the colors of the surrounding nature to give oriental touches to the paintings, searching for everything that is distinctive in the language of Al-Dhad to present it to the world of formation.
Zainab Chahoud