The sixth retrospective graphic art exhibition displays the Ministry of Culture’s holdings.
Graphic art is a traditional category of fine arts including any form of visual artistic expressions such as painting, drawing, photography and printmaking usually produced on flat surfaces.
Within the framework of reviving such arts, thirty-two graphic artworks by a number of graphic artists, who belong to different generations, were displayed at the sixth retrospective exhibition of graphic art hosted by the People’s Hall in Damascus .
The cultural event , which was held by the Fine Arts Directorate at the Ministry of Culture in cooperation with the Syrian Plastic Artists Union, depicted various art styles, techniques and topics.
Sculptor Imad Kashout, Director of Fine Arts at the Ministry of Culture said in a statement to SANA, “The exhibition included important works of the Ministry’s holdings by some graphic artists who are considered the founding generation”.
He stressed that this exhibition came within the framework of the Fine Arts directorate’s efforts to restore memory to graphic art and introduce it to art students and the public who love it in an attempt to make this art as the rest of other arts.
Artist Kashaut underlined that these retrospective exhibitions are part of a systematic activity of the culture ministry to support plastic artists , indicating despite their suffering during the years of the war on Syria they never stopped working.
He noted that the virtual modern art museum project was re-launched with full support after it stopped in 2012 due to the nine-year war .
According to Hussein Saqour, the official in charge of exhibitions at the Union of Fine Artists, the graphic art is a rational art and developed over time with its methods, indicating that the aim of the exhibition is to introduce graphic art and its techniques to people through such exhibitions.
Rawaa Ghanam