A youth exhibition of plastic art held at the Mustafa Ali Gallery

Damascus (ST): Coinciding with the days of Syrian art, the youth exhibition entitled “Five” was opened at the Mustafa Ali Gallery in Old Damascus, adorning its walls with bold paintings with loud colors that combined various artistic expressions between abstraction and realism.

“Five” brought together five young people who are passionate about plastic art and graduates of Damascus University of Fine Arts, to present their artistic productions in a group picture, drawing inspiration from their creative ideas at times from reality, and from the memories that passed through their hearts once again, embodying their abilities in paintings with various features.

The features of isolation and self-isolation were evident in the paintings of the young artist, Razan al-Mir, who explained in a statement that she relied in her paintings on the dark color block inlaid with a little shy red to highlight the expressions of fatigue, refraction and a little love and nostalgia.

In turn, the young artist, Shaza Maidani, explained that she participated in acrylic and sand paintings on canvas, inspired by the difficult conditions of the war that the Syrian people suffered as a whole, which she translated through the facial features of many psychological states of anxiety, fear and surprise, mixing in them contradictory and balanced expressions.

Artist Ghazi Aana considered that the exhibition carries a lot of renewal in style, formulation and idea, which unleashed visions of portraiture with a lot of boldness in expression, but it was interspersed with some exaggeration in the features of cruelty and suffering, including abstract and realistic, where harmony between color and image prevails.

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