Four artists from Aleppo gather in one exhibition with different styles

Aleppo-Sana

Four of Aleppo's plastic artists gathered in the group exhibition hosted by Al-Assad Gallery for Fine Arts in the city as part of the Syrian Culture Days event.

The artists participating in the exhibition, Bashar Barazi, Shukran Bilal, Lucy Maqsoud and Faten Al-Helou, presented 30 paintings with styles that varied from classic to contemporary.

Jaber Al-Sajour, Director of Culture in Aleppo, stressed the importance of the exhibition, which comes with the participation of a group of plastic artists, to express emotional states and concerns from the hidden aspects of the human soul in a variety of ways, according to the themes of the paintings.

Nouran Jabakji, head of the branch of the Union of Fine Artists in Aleppo, believes that these collective exhibitions enhance the spirit of competition and challenge among artists, as they include works that rise to the level of fine art and embrace a group of diverse art schools, which encourages the spirit of work and the fine art movement in the city.

Ibrahim Daoud, Secretary of the Aleppo Branch of the Union of Fine Artists, indicated that the exhibition, which will continue until the 30th of this month, varied according to the method of each artist, between impressionism, realism, expressionism and abstraction.

Plastic artist Lucy Maqsoud, who participated in colorful paintings that expressed beauty and joy, pointed out the importance of her participation in the exhibition because it collected a variety of plastic methods, where each artist presented his own mark.

The young plastic artist, Faten Al-Helou, participated in a number of paintings in a realistic style that simulates the current conditions and embodies the female personality in all its cases, in addition to the child, who is considered a symbol of the future, using colors that express joy, referring to the role of plastic art in promoting the cultural movement in the city of Aleppo.

In turn, the plastic artist Bashar Barazi explained that he participated in works that deal with women's issues and are related to the homeland, in addition to paintings depicting the Syrian nature and the old neighborhoods of Aleppo and depicting the destruction that occurred in the city, stressing that the painting is a symbolic visual text that may be read in several contradictory forms.

Zainab Chahoud