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																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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