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e recipients have a visual capacity that allows them to enjoy
interpretation from one hand and to explore the beauty of shapes from
another hand, while other recipients lack this capacity because they
expect to see some ready-made shapes that they already know after
they fail to understand the abstract artwork.
The shades of nature
Even though Farouk Hosny’s paintings may seem absolute abstract
artworks at first sight, however, they contain shades of nature, yet
not in their material form that portrays land, water,mountains, trees
and humans, but we can feel the light, skies and air and its internal
powers of growth and movement. Exploring the elements of nature and
demonstrating them in abstract art generates an intense expression of
these elements. However, the essence that Farouk sought from nature
is characterized by generalism, synthesis, and composition, as well as
reflecting the individual experience of the artist, which does not stop at
the ending shape of elements of nature but rather the hidden forces that
produce them, so he constantly refers in all his frequent and changing
forms to those forces. Dr. Barnes has said that “paintings still refer to the
real world when images cease to be similar to objects that already exist,
and when we cannot find in a painting
a representation of a specific topic,
what this painting shall present is how
different elements are represented
like color, solidness, movement,
rhythm,etc. As art does not cease to
be an expressive tool when it portrays
the ongoing relation between objects
in a visual image without revealing
the components of this relation.”
If the visible world represents a
system of a complex alphabet of
symbols, the artist’s mission shall not
be limited to reading this alphabet,
he however should understand its
rhythm and recreate which is what
Farouk Hosny presenting in a unique
artistic approach.
Acrylic on Canvas, 150 x 120 cm, 2018.
108
interpretation from one hand and to explore the beauty of shapes from
another hand, while other recipients lack this capacity because they
expect to see some ready-made shapes that they already know after
they fail to understand the abstract artwork.
The shades of nature
Even though Farouk Hosny’s paintings may seem absolute abstract
artworks at first sight, however, they contain shades of nature, yet
not in their material form that portrays land, water,mountains, trees
and humans, but we can feel the light, skies and air and its internal
powers of growth and movement. Exploring the elements of nature and
demonstrating them in abstract art generates an intense expression of
these elements. However, the essence that Farouk sought from nature
is characterized by generalism, synthesis, and composition, as well as
reflecting the individual experience of the artist, which does not stop at
the ending shape of elements of nature but rather the hidden forces that
produce them, so he constantly refers in all his frequent and changing
forms to those forces. Dr. Barnes has said that “paintings still refer to the
real world when images cease to be similar to objects that already exist,
and when we cannot find in a painting
a representation of a specific topic,
what this painting shall present is how
different elements are represented
like color, solidness, movement,
rhythm,etc. As art does not cease to
be an expressive tool when it portrays
the ongoing relation between objects
in a visual image without revealing
the components of this relation.”
If the visible world represents a
system of a complex alphabet of
symbols, the artist’s mission shall not
be limited to reading this alphabet,
he however should understand its
rhythm and recreate which is what
Farouk Hosny presenting in a unique
artistic approach.
Acrylic on Canvas, 150 x 120 cm, 2018.
108
