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Here is a pyramid, a human mountain crowned by three flags, a Trinity in a Unity, a patriotic poetic chant. Flags in such compositions are indispensable. The base of the pyramid in the foreground is formed by a stirring crowd, almost monochrome with its red and its ochre, leaving an opening for the upper parts, developing in circles, while a discreet and hidden geometry holds the whole work together. All is toned down, the forms, lines, colors and matter. Another plan, of a shade of blue, continues the composition, making dialogue with the whole to form a symphony, a work both musical and silent that cannot be described in words. A Vast Field of Humanity (80 x 100 cm - 1989)
Two dimensions, human and spatial, are associated in this work. Is this Waterloo or is it Anjar? Or somewhere else? One might have said this is a detail of a great work, one beginning with human beings and ending in the same way. The crowd fills both earth and sky and fades into the distance in a perspective that knows no horizon, into a far, far distance reaching into every heart and conscience. This is a huge plain sown with beings like flowers or ears of corn and a sky where they are like stars. The whole universe comes into the work, while from Lebanon a gracious harmony ascends like the dawn smiling at existence. The work further expresses all the hope of the artist for a more rosy future. >> Ninth Page << |
