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Painting in Furn El Chebbak

Under the sponsorship of the Municipality of Furn El Chebbak, Ain El Remmaneh, Tahouitet El Nahr, the Book Culture Association organized a symposium (live drawing) entitled “Fern El Chebbak in a Painting” on Friday, September 14, 2019.

On Friday, May 4, 2019, at five in the evening, the Book Culture Association opened its exhibition dedicated to Arabic calligraphy, entitled “Arabic Calligraphy and Modernity,” under the patronage of MP Imad Wakim, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, represented by the poet Professor Hussein Hamada, the president of the association, writer Charbel George Al-Gharib, and the official in the association, engineer George. Pilgrims in the corridor of the old arch below the Church of Saint Joseph - Achrafieh Mono. The place was filled with paintings through which each calligrapher expressed his identity mixed with beauty, sadness, love and suffering. Each calligrapher has a distinctive style. When you look at the painting you see beauty in the calligraphy emanating from the spirit of the calligrapher. New technology cannot do so no matter how advanced it is. To advance this type of art.Some of them chose poetry to highlight it in a new style, and it was necessary to use the data of the modern era to highlight the beauty of calligraphy. The calligrapher is also an artist. He combines calligraphy and drawing. Calligraphy is an image of language, and therefore the image must express the content, and this is why letters are often drawn in an intelligent artistic way that expresses the meaning.Regarding the exhibition and its importance, the poet Hussein Hamadeh, representative of the Ministry of Culture, gave a speech that expressed the importance of Lebanon in culture, and Lebanon is our country drawn by the alphabet on the world map. The Book Culture Association is a glowing arc with culture. The Ministry of Culture is an incubator and sponsor of every artistic work.The exhibition included various workshops and dialogue sessions that included all ages and aimed to introduce visitors to this art, its diverse methods, and its profound implications for society. Arabic calligraphy enthusiasts also visited the exhibition to learn about the different calligraphy methods and techniques.In the exhibition you will see a huge amount of beautiful texts that contain many messages and wisdom
Calligraphers participated in the exhibition:Rula Deliqan, Dr. Muhammad Baghdadi, Fayed Shehadeh, Hussein Younis, Abbas Al-Dahini, Amer Haider, Bassem Baladi, Walid Al-Daya, Zahid Qubaisi, Safi Jouni, Bassem Baladi, Batoul Al-Sayrafi.The exhibition also presented all schools of Arabic letters in the following different types:Kufic calligraphy, Ruqa’ calligraphy, Naskh calligraphy, Thuluth calligraphy, Persian calligraphy, Ijaza or signature calligraphy, Diwani calligraphy, Tughra calligraphy, with each calligrapher adding special aesthetics linked to contemporary color and modernity while preserving the basics of calligraphy in each painting.
Finally, no matter how much time advances, the Arabic calligraphy remains.
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Arabic Calligraphy Exhibition entitled “Arabic Calligraphy and Modernity...”..

Pictures of the Jbeil exhibition held by the Book Culture Association near the ancient castle in Jbeil, entitled (Fortresse Culturelle), from 9/7/2018 until 9/14/2018, in cooperation with the Jbeil Municipality and the Ministry of Culture..

Fortresse Culturelle

With the beginning of the spring season and the launch of the quest for new horizons, the Book Culture Association, under the patronage of His Excellency former Minister Nicolas Al-Sahnawi, held an exhibition under the title of the Salon of Painters and Sculptors, in the salon of the Church of St. Art and artists..

In this atmosphere of fine plastic art, the exhibition was opened on Friday, April 13, according to the wishes of the association’s president, Mr. Charbel George Al-Gharib. The exhibition was filled with a large group of the most famous paintings and sculptures, distinguished by their sophisticated artistic sense, in which bright colors were mixed with joy and a bright spring wedding.

The exhibition contained valuable collections for a number of artists and stored a variety of artistic styles. Paintings, sculptures, and classics were in dialogue with that of surrealism, and the walls were decorated with the most beautiful and beautiful things that talent and creativity were able to accomplish by the great Lebanese artists. It is true that the prices of oil paintings and sculptures were characterized by some increase in prices. However, they are worth these high amounts because some of them require many months of hard work from the artists to complete the implementation with very high technical specifications and modern drawing techniques.

Religious paintings also had a large place, which added majesty and a clear spiritual presence to the entire exhibition, with its distinguished faces of the Holy, especially since it was held in the hall of an ancient ancient church, so the exhibits were in harmony with the majesty of the place and its distinctive heritage and civilizational character.

As for the sculptures, they were extremely superior in their quality, whether in terms of sculpting techniques or in terms of the strength of the artistic works that were executed on ebony, strong olive, perennial, and beech wood. We mention among them the carved winged cross, which symbolizes resurrection and liberation from the slavery of the earth to matter. In addition to that, there were a number of The sculptures represent domesticated and feral animals in the jungle, as if they are a living symbol of human ferocity that continues with humans even if they move from jungle life to civilization.

Speaking of civilization, the exhibition included paintings with new technology, which can be said to be urban paintings, as they symbolize the art of architecture from the East and the West, and the intensity of the colors has been softened in order to highlight the skill of man in the art of construction and architecture, by restoring the atmosphere of the genius engineer O Corbusier. These paintings fall into the atmosphere of travel culture and travel literature, which aims to highlight the landmarks of all European, Arab and international capitals under different lights in the aesthetics of successive seasons and the creativity of color and imagination.

There is no doubt that the Book Culture Association, with its president, Charbel George Al-Gharib, established in its exhibition a new artistic beginning and a distinct launch in its momentum. It emerged in several fields because it contained several different cultures, but in its entirety they are very harmonious, and it gives special attention to the art of paintings that contain symbols. Mythological as it represents legendary events that occurred in the history of various human civilizations upon which modern Western civilization was built. Accordingly, the exhibition was a retrospective par excellence of all these symbols and these arts in all episodes and eras of human history in one way or another..

Antoine Yazbeck..