Adham Ismail Center supplies the artistic movement with distinctive works of 17 of its graduates

Damascus, ST- Young artists who graduate from Adham Ismail Center for Fine Arts held an exhibition that included the output of their techniques, talents and knowledge that they had acquired through their two-year study period at the center.

In the exhibition, 17 graduates exhibited 44 paintings in oil painting technology in a classic and realistic style that conveyed various subjects reflecting the graduates’ visions of life, art and society .

Qusay al-Abdullah al-Asa’ad, director of the center, said: “We organize such an event every six months to offer promising artistic talents, a chance to exhibit their works. We try to highlight   their ideas, experiences, skills and energies and encourage them to contribute in providing the fine artistic movement. We encourage them to participate in such exhibitions to present their astonishing works through which they try to express their ambitions, ideas and dreams.

Imad Kashout, director of Fine Arts Institute, noted that the center has a major role in teaching and graduating art students. He added that the center also receives those people who love the plastic art and other specializations and not necessarily to be academic. Kashout indicated that there is a remarkable development in the level of graduates of Adham Ismail center during the past five years.

In turn, graduate Sally Hijazi said, “I chose the two, childhood and elderly stages as the subject of my project. In my three paintings, I tried to express the contradictions and feelings of each stage, such as the old man’s yearning for past years, whereas the child is very eager to grow up.”

Graduate Maha al-Baroudi presented paintings expressing the violence against women, verbally or physically in order to shed light on the suffering of women and the harm caused to her in preventing her from practicing her rights.

Through her paintings, graduate Reem al-Balah  expressed the power of people with disabilities possess, who always  put a smile on their faces despite all the pain inside them, stressing  that from those great people we learn strength and patience.

Graduate Nour al-Qattan presented three paintings of  children of different ages through which she tried  to monitor the child’s expressions of shame, sadness and confidence.

M.Wassouf