Damascus-SANA
In appreciation of her rich artistic career, which lasted for more than 44 years, the Directorate of Culture in Damascus organized an honorary celebration at the Arab Cultural Center in Abu Rummaneh on the first anniversary of the departure of the plastic artist Sawsan Jalal, at the invitation of the Syrian Plastic Artists Union.
The celebration included a symposium that reviewed her rich artistic career, with the participation of many plastic artists and friends of the late woman, moderated by the media, Elham Sultan.
The symposium opened with a short film that included a series of interviews with Sawsan Jalal to take the audience to a rich memory of the words and works of this creative artistic stature.
The symposium included a group of discussions initiated by Dr. Mohamed Ghanoum, who shed light on humanitarian and creative stations in Jalal's academic and professional life.
The artist Lina Deeb presented a critical study of the works of the late artist, explaining that she possesses a special artistic identity through her coexistence with the contemporary based on the heritage of all her works.
Art critic Saad Al-Qassem spoke about her artistic and intellectual upbringing, stressing that she was spiritually nourished by art as she grew up in an artistic family.
The symposium concluded with a set of valuable interventions from the audience, which talked about the impact of Sawsan Jalal and her art that she left after her death.
After the symposium, an art exhibition was opened that evoked the most prominent works of Jalal, the artist who departed in body and whose soul and artwork remain immortal. She is a school for all new generations and one of the important artists in the contemporary Syrian plastic movement as she possesses a special and diverse artistic identity with her unique and rich expressive style.
In an interview with SANA’s correspondent, the head of the Union of Fine Artists, Irfan Abu Al-Shamat, explained the importance of such honoring as a continuous reminder
The works of the late artist and her brilliant artistic history.
He pointed out that she specialized in her art by drawing flowers and the Levantine environment, in addition to portraits that embodied women in a delicate way, as they are still present in the memory of Syrians as well as her works.
It is noteworthy that the late artist, a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Interior Architecture in 1977, worked in the field of decoration and in drawing children's stories. Shura in 1995 and participated in many local and foreign group exhibitions.
Rasha Ibrahim
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