Artist Najad Maki is a pioneering figure in the Emirati art community. His insight into the fundamental relationship between color and the memories associated with certain places has greatly influenced the depth and diversity of his artistic expressions. He was recently awarded the Knight of the Order of Arts. and Ayesha Alabar Gallery in her second solo exhibition, “Spectres.” Letters of the French Government during the Musket. In his new works for this exhibition, Najad Maki layers layers of colors on top of each other in an attempt to create intense sensory experiences. In her paintings.

This is by challenging the current limitations of color’s impact on our different senses. The artist’s recent works created using fabric include contemporary interpretations and modifications of the dots and paisley designs that usually adorn traditional fabrics. This exhibition is a testament to artist Najad Maki’s bold and innovative approach, whereby he continues to push the boundaries of his practice by exploring new techniques and artistic means.

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“Al-Bayan” Dr. Najad Maki met with him about receiving the French Order of Knight in Arts and Letters and said: This honor is very important to me because I am honored by a country in Arts and Letters. Centuries of creativity, it gives great impetus to creativity and I am proud to be from the Emirates. He received this medal, which is one of the most prestigious honors that artists receive.

This confirms that I have represented my country honorably in many international forums and supports my presence in presenting my country as an advanced country in the field of arts and creativity and as a woman with a creative stamp. Najad Maki affirmed that art is always a story of passion and innovation. About his latest exhibition, he said: “Spectres of Musk” exhibition evokes memory.

There are many situations that we interact with, which have an impact on us. In the works in the exhibition, I combined elements into multi-layered units through color and formal relationships. I also used apartments for the first time in this exhibition. Women’s cloths in particular were preferred by women in the past, and were cloths with names, such as “Al-Zari” and “Al-Maisa” and like a surface for artistic work.

Through this surface, the composition of the work is built on it, and it is a new structure in the form of the work of art or in the general environment. Also, a new direction in how the work uses decorations and symbols. Lines and colors together, if the decorations provide a special privacy among them, thus giving an impression.

This is what happens in the conversations, the exchange of stories when women gather, and another look at the dots, lines, colors and spaces in their composition. They were used as I had in mind. Unusual names were given. Works of art, and the temporal meaning of composition is linked to works of art such as paintings of the four seasons, where I combine the presence and feeling of a woman and the beauty of her clothing. She has an existence, but in a different way.

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Dr. Najad stressed that art fairs play a major role in supporting the creative economic movement in Dubai and the country in general by presenting modern ideas. ideas.

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American painter Norman Rockwell, “1894-1978”, gained great fame as he is considered one of the greatest artists. He was born on the West Side of Manhattan and showed creative talent from his childhood as his mother observed. The first drawings of warships at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, a sign of a strong future talent, indeed, his father had a literary sense, and he read many and varied books, especially the classic works and novels of the author Charles Dickens. He would read aloud to the family, and Rockwell Junior enjoyed drawing characters from novels he imagined in his mind and turning them into drawings.

Because of his passion for drawing, Rockwell attended the Chase School of Applied Arts during his high school years, which was open on Wednesdays and Saturdays. In his final year of high school, he decided to drop out. Studying “hard,” he enrolled at the National Academy of Design, which qualified him, he enrolled in art college and got what he wanted in 1910. Later, his work matured and became widely distributed. Among the public, they appeared on birthday cards and official American events. He was offered the position of director of a magazine associated with the Boy Scouts of America, which he accepted, and Rockwell introduced him into his life. Many works of art and timeless paintings. .

The painting “Freedom of Expression” is one of Rockwell’s most important works, painted in oil colors, and is the first of his other works to focus on the goals and slogans known as the “Four Freedoms”. Franklin Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, expressed the artist’s preferences and belonged to his movement. The artist, the undisputed artist of the American people in the 20th century, adopted a simple method of recording his thoughts, observations and writings. He occupied the throne of this popular art specialty, known as illustration, and was concerned with the printed illustration, often executed in a realistic, exploratory style, and the rules of art and universal skills were very complete. And it becomes a work with all the characteristics of fine art. As with many of Rockwell’s works, it may reach the quality of fine museum art, which he enlarged in oil colors in the finest form of fine art. The artist reached the peak of his genius in the fifties and sixties of the last century, when his paintings, monopolized by the international magazines “Saturday Evening” and “Shahid”, were printed in millions. On their covers, later many art and media were simultaneously published in posters, folders, books and cards, as well as through specialized companies, and in this way, many of the artist’s works were printed. , which increased his popularity. His paintings have been described as conscious, intelligent snapshots, popular wisdom and proverbs, and this painting belongs to the conscience of the people as much as to “freedom of opinion”.

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This painting is part of a series of paintings inspired by President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1941 address to the nation in which he spoke about human rights, called the Four Freedoms of Speech, and included the 4 basic freedoms a person should enjoy: (Freedom of Thought, Freedom of Belief, Freedom of Demand and freedom from fear) and these should be enjoyed by every human being in the world, and the President of the United States at the time believed that these freedoms formed the basis of an office. -War World Order Roosevelt summed up the democratic values ​​behind America’s bipartisan consensus, and this famous passage from the speech exemplifies these values: “For men do not live by bread alone, so they do not fight by arms alone,” in the second half of the speech on economic opportunity, employment It details the benefits of democracy such as opportunity, social security, “adequate health care,” and of the four freedoms, the only two freedoms described in the United States Constitution are freedom of expression and freedom of worship, while the meaning of the four freedoms was eventually incorporated into the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations Charter.

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The speech had a great influence on intellectuals, artists and creatives, including Rockwell, who transformed the meanings and ideas of the speech into 4 paintings, considered icons in America, which were published in the magazine in 1943. “Saturday Evening,” along with an essay showing and clarifying works written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Booth Tarkington, in addition to many other well-known authors. These works were converted into posters and stamps. Popular, the artist was celebrated by experts and the public until he was named the leader of popular art, and his paintings and works of art were widely accepted as a symbol.

The painting “Freedom of Thought” depicts a scene of a meeting in a small local town. The picture shows a man named Jim Edgerton, who is giving a speech to the people in the town where the old school was burned down. He wanted to build a new one in its place, and after the meeting, Edgerton gave a speech to the working-class youth because he was a “blue-collar” person. That is, working people. He appears in the painting wearing a patterned shirt and deerskin jacket, his hands are dirty and his skin is darker than the other participants, while the others wear white shirts, ties and jackets. Although they appear more elegant than the speaker, they are more interested in the speech. Edgerton portrays Gill in the painting. Young people, he looks younger than the rest of the audience, and he stands tall with an open mouth and bright eyes. Or perhaps his fears were overshadowed by the political victories and class victories achieved in that era. rights.

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This pose of the young speaker has multiple meanings, and some critics point out that Edgerton is depicted in this painting as being too close to US President Abraham Lincoln. Bruce Cole, writer and editor of the Wall Street Journal, notes that the subject of the pre-speech meeting in the painting is discussing the city’s annual report, while the art Critic John Updike pointed out that the work was painted. Without any pictorial brush, the critic Robert Scholes says the work shows the speaker’s deep interest and admiration for the public.

The Cairo Oscar-nominated film “Foy, Foy, Foy” addresses the topical topic of illegal immigration from the Middle East and Africa, and Egypt is one of its sources, as well as Lebanon, where the tape originated. Thursday shows.

Written and directed by Omar Hilal, the film will be one of the finalists in the Best Foreign Film category from dozens of nominations from around the world.

The film tells the story of a security guard played by Mohammad Faraq, who lives with his mother in a poor neighborhood and seeks to immigrate to Europe in search of a better future. But not on a boat, because this method is financially expensive and fraught with suffering and danger.

So that the goalkeeper could travel to Europe, he pretended to be blind and joined a blind soccer team preparing to compete in the World Cup in Poland. The pseudo-blind man soon discovered that he was not the only one following this trick.

Director Omar Hilal (age 48) told Agence France-Presse when he was in Beirut with crew members to promote the film, about the circumstances that gave birth to his idea, “He read a post shared on Facebook. About a group of young Egyptians who were blinded by many followers, pretending to be blind.” Escaped to Poland and elsewhere.”

“I found exactly what I was looking for in the story,” said Hilal, who grew up in Saudi Arabia and Canada. Hilal made this story the backbone of his film, but he developed his dramatic text from his comments on “Events and Contradictions”.

He added, “In the real story, the team members are not regular football players but kettlebell players, a sport for the blind, close to volleyball.”

“Foy” is a Spanish word that means “I come.” Blind players say it when they have the ball to communicate with their teammates.

Nelly Karim plays the role of a journalist whose passion the team captures. The famous Egyptian actress told Agence France-Presse about her character in the film, that she is “a journalist tired of producing trivial headlines, so one day she (Al-Ihsan) went to interview young people at the club. She was introduced to a new world for her, and a story of light praise and shocks. “The only character who has faith in life,” he added.

Although the issue the film presents is tragic, Helal wanted to convey it in a “funny, humorous way, unlike what is usually seen in films dealing with illegal immigration”. The film does not rely on “crying and crying”, but rather its strength, according to Hilal, lies in the “uniqueness of the way the story is told”.

After attending the premiere in Beirut, Lebanese film critic Elias Toomer praised the choice for “a happy ending to a film about the tragedy of illegal immigration”.

The director, who works mainly in advertising, does not support illegal immigration. In this regard, “when the migrant reaches the other side, his life is not better.”

He stressed the need to “improve the conditions of young people to stay in their country and not risk their lives, as illegal immigration can kill them”.

Last June, several Egyptians were among the dozens of migrants who died when an old fishing boat sank off the coast of Greece in one of the largest incidents of migrant boat sinkings in Europe.

For Nellie Karim, “Illegal immigration is an important topic at the moment. People yearn (…) to travel to fulfill their beliefs, but (…) living conditions do not change for the better simply by traveling abroad.

The director hoped that “Foy, Foy, Foy” would impress those responsible for the Oscars. “My ambition was to reach international standards,” he said. When I managed the actors, I asked them to put more effort into their roles as we wanted to reach the Oscars.

The 15 semi-finalists to win the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar will be announced on December 21, and the list of five finalists in the category will be announced on January 23. to the Academy Awards ceremony on March 10 in Los Angeles.