Adham Ismail collective Exhibition within the celebration of Syrian Culture days

Within the activities the Syrian Culture days celebration, Adham Ismail Center for Fine Arts  held a  collective exhibition for a group of artists who studied and graduated from the center.

The exhibition included 50 paintings for 50 male and female artists depicting various topics including  silent nature, portraiture, landscapes, and some realistic scenes that the artist lived through or saw.

Participant artist Taghreed Rababa told Syria times that she displayed  a painting that tells about the struggle of man with his society, as he tries to get out of the outdated customs and traditions of his society, but he cannot.

“My painting is derived from the symbolic, realistic, and expressive school in order to express my ideas” she said.

Participant Yaman Diab said in his role: “I drew the character of the charlatan present in society. The character of the sorcerer was drawn using the knife and brush technique using oil paints”.

Waseem Haider, a graduate of the Adham Ismail Center and a teacher at the center said :”My painting depicted the female and the mother and her greatness using oil colors”.

Rama Zarrouk showed a painting of a simple woman who faced the difficulties of life serenely .

Qusay Al-Abdullah Al-Asaad, Director of the Adham Ismail Center for Fine Art  told Syria times that on the occasion of the Syrian Culture Days, a collective exhibition of fine arts is held at the center as part of the celebration Syrian Culture Days.

‘We participated in this exhibition by displaying the paintings of graduates and top students from the center’s collections from different years”.

We participated in this event under the title “Culture is a message of life”. Through this diversity, we wanted to say that the message is renewed through generations, ages and years. Thus, the center has achieved its goal through the graduation of talented artists, who are all now plastic artists who have permanent participation in different exhibitions.

The role of the Adham Ismail Center is to create a plastic artist who has talent and a hobby and did not have the opportunity for academic education. Within this center  students receive a specialized scientific academic methodology, so they graduate as excellent artists.

Rama Rayhan, a teacher at the Adham Ismail Center, said that students at the Adham Ismail Center remain studying for two years.

Rama teaches students how to paint with oil colors  . She participated with a painting that depicted nature and a travel train.

I wanted to express the idea of waiting, optimism and hope despite all the difficulties of life.

Interviewed and Photos by: Nada Haj Khidr