Mohammad Hamzeh
These portraits,
the noble men
and women, the
elite and the
beautiful people
of the
Renaissance era
who are still
ostentatious
after centuries,
are removed from
their universe
so that their
beauty and glory
glow excessively
in a timeless
and spaceless
setting with an
emphasized
individuality
and
eccentricity.
This is an
immediate
exposition of
splendor and
majesty. The
portraits are
not crumpled,
cracked and
distorted
because of the
anger and fear
one might feel
for living
through bitter
times and
breathing
poisoned air,
rather they are
created
determinedly
with full
control over the
wrath and anger
modernism brings
about. The
amassed
resentment
generated by
modernism’s
anxiety has
resulted in an
obsessive
preservation of
the beauty,
dignity and
glory of the
portraits in a
new arrangement
and a ferocious
but satirical
and ironic tone.
The artist has
fooled about the
serenity,
greatness and
dignity of the
portraits, yet
underlined their
grandeur and
individuality.
He has
defamiliarized
their
individuality
and majesty yet
favored them and
even endorsed
their splendor.
This is not an
aesthetic
language only to
seek ugliness or
to create it. By
deforming beauty
outwardly, the
artist has
achieved a total
new aesthetics
of his own with
roots in the
liberation,
integrity and
conduct of
modernism. With
his controlled
wrath and the
amassed
resentment
resulted from
his social and
personal life,
in addition to
his
understanding of
the liberty and
magnanimity that
modernism
generates, the
artist has used
his perceptive
outlook,
opinion,
eminence and
individuality as
to discover his
own
individuality
and egotism and
cry it out in a
sardonic whisper
at the zenith of
perfection. He
has majestically
whispered his
individuality.
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