Drawing is not a small painting with colors and feathers only, but rather a story in which the artist expresses his feelings about an event, or a noble human message that he delivers to the entire world.
Fatima Dia, a plastic artist and surveyor, was born in 1986 in southern Lebanon, where she discovered her talent for drawing at an early age, with the encouragement of her parents, especially her father, who believed in her talent from a young age, and supported her with everything he could for her development, if he was financially and morally. Sputnik.
Beginnings
Fatima added, with the passage of time I was able to proceed in the path of professionalism without learning to draw academically, but by working on myself, as drawing was not more than a hobby and a refuge for myself, as for academia, I entered the College of Engineering and completed it, and a year and a half before Now I have created my art page on social media and started participating in exhibitions, and here was the start.
The most famous painting … The Beirut disaster
“The Rising Angels” … a painting that Fatima made after the Beirut disaster that killed many people in an explosion that shook the corners of the Lebanese capital and ruined its infrastructure. Whoever saw it, to display it after a public auction, the proceeds of which would go to the families of the victims and their families .. Fatima says to “Sputnik”: “This painting expressed with all sincerity what was going on in my heart and mind at the time.”
Art is a message
Fatima explains, “It was never the main goal of art for me financially, but on the contrary, I always felt at the completion of each painting a very strong link between me and it … especially if it stems from my feelings, which makes it difficult for me to abandon it.”
Fatima explains the art message with this example, “Regarding the painting“ Rising Angels ”, which sold for $ 45,000, the most painful thing to me was that I was no longer able to see the painting again, but what comforted me was that through selling it I was able to help 75 families from The poorest families affected by the Beirut explosion, and here art is a message first. ”
She added, “So, not all of the paintings that I do are offered for sale, but of course there is no objection to making financial use of some work in order to continue painting, because drawing and the materials used in drawing are expensive, especially in our situation today.”
Drawing is a story
She adds, “It is said that the artist has a sensitive feeling, expressing what is inside him with a brush, pencil, or colors on a painting that he wants to speak without words … a silent painting, but it tells about any event, whether it is joyful, sad or painful, the painter empties his vision. This event is one of the components of itself, and all the thoughts that roam in his head are the cause of emotions that arise from the heart of the matter. ”
And she continues, “During my first visit to the” Louvre “museum in Paris, I was struck by one of the most beautiful paintings I have seen, which is the painting” la jeune martyre “by the French artist” Paul Delaroche “. Frankly, I remained standing in front of it for a long time as I meditated on it and I felt a strange feeling connecting me with it and a mixture of feelings of sadness. Fear, injustice and sympathy … I was inspired to do works that directly touch the soul and address influential topics, as every artist is affected in one way or another by artistic works and artistic style or the life and personality of another artist.
Drawing is flexible
Fatima says: The art of painting was not limited to a specific type only, but rather I tried almost all its types and all the materials available to me from lead, charcoal, pastel and wood colors to acrylic, oil and aquariums, and every new material added something new to me in my artistic career, and I was learning from it, but The most beloved of my heart, of course, were the oil colors.
Russia … a pioneer of the world of art
Artist Fatima says: The foreign market is a fundamental goal of my future goals. The artist is always eager to spread his work, introduce the world to his art, and perhaps gain attention and appreciation, especially in countries and societies that give art importance and the leading countries in the world of art, and surely the most important of which is Russia because of the global status of Russian art. In addition to the Russian civilization and culture, which are rich in definition.
The problem of Arab art
Fatima poses a problem in Arab art, and explains, “There is no doubt that the Arab plastic arts are very diverse. Arab Muslims have invented a new art that they added to the Arab plastic arts, which is the art of Arabic calligraphy, which also received interest and admiration from art connoisseurs … but then With colonialism and openness to the West, Arab art became in a state of loss between preserving the Arab identity that distinguished it at the time and keeping up with modernity in art and adopting new styles inspired by the new Western schools, which created a mixture between these two types of art.
And she continues, “But for me, the most dangerous thing facing Arab art today is that, unfortunately, it does not receive much interest by Arab societies that are busy with their difficult living matters after wars and economic problems that they have faced for decades, and thus art has become a luxury thing, which negatively affects the artist.” In general, its production and creativity. ”
A final word … the future
Fatima Dia concludes with “Sputnik”: “I want to draw a story instead of drawing a picture, a story that deals with topics that provoke me and affect me .. a story that I feel the need to express my opinion about it in my way and thus spread awareness and try to change the reality related to it as much as possible, such as a painting” Stolen Dreams “which She recently published it, which deals with the issue of underage marriage and the great negative impact and injustice underage girls are exposed to by eliminating her future and dreams and controlling her fate.