Arabic Calligraphy

 

 

Arabic Calligraphy has been and continues to be a source of inspiration. Given the supreme importance of the word of God as set down in the Quran and its transmission throughout the Islamic World, the traditional emphasis upon the primacy of the written word served to elevate Arabic Calligraphy into the pre-eminent form of artistic expression.

 

Arabic Script goes back from right to left and working with the letters of   present a unique challenge because the letters have been around for thousand years, and it is the manner that is put in the artwork and arrive to new artistic expression. And   also, Arabic Calligraphy. Moulded with its historical development and present possibilities could lead to new and varied formal experiences and expressions. Sometimes, the words are smothered in a veritable flora of paradise.

 

We have in modern art, the use of words and letters, numbers and sign appearing like symbols of expressive, speechlessness. Regardless to the fact that a Westerner cannot read Arabic, except in some cases, or that he cannot decipher a single letter or a syllable, it is endlessly appealing and makes always think that if he could read it, he would know the secret, the hidden meaning of the picture, the key to the inner world, the revelation. Sometimes they  are representation of psychic, cultural and historical, transcending the distance of centuries, a sentimental and exploratory journey, and this is how the artist  emancipate in cultural and intellectual  field.

 

In this work, I have combined Arabic shapes with painting. I begin with a monotype in a free painterly manner by pouring oil paint, thinner and colour, squeezed directly from a tube, onto a large etching plate, loose Arabic alphabetical shapes are inked and placed in biomorphic position on the plate. The image is further developed with rags, fingers and rollers. Linear forms can also be added with a brush and golden décor with a sponge. I ran through etching press several times, continue to add new colour and forms, building layers of transparent and opaque colour  on archers etching paper and stylistic canvasses.