Landescape Art Review Special Edition Summer 2014

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Eman Hakim

LandEscape 15 Art Review

female. And sometimes when I change my touches and smooth palette, in this case I try to disobey my internal trend and instead I put the acute strong touches and colors to achieve my desire for untraditional approach. I daresay that the semantic juxtaposition between a classic imagery and a modern approach that marks out your artistic production, allows you to go beyond any dichotomy between Tradition and Contemporariness, establishing a stimulating osmosis between materials from an ancient era and a modern, lively approach to Art: do you recognize any contrast between Tradition and Contemporariness?

What you describe in your question is absolutely true. I still have this internal contradictory forces between different art schools. As I said earlier, I always try to rebel and disobey my traditional trends. Although I love this, but al the time I have the feeling that I should do something different, something new. I do not rush this, I mean I am not in a hurry and I do not force this on me artificially. I believe that the best thing to do is to let it happen by nature and by time as I believe that this is the only way which will lead me to create something different but in the same time satisfactory to me and others. your canvas, and I can admire especially in #8 has suggested me such a tactile sensation: any comments on your choice of "palette" and how it has changed over time?

The sensation of my touch here is absolutely unconscious. I cannot claim that I have any control on that. It comes automatically based on talent and my natural personality. One of my professors long time ago maentioned this to me that my touches are so soft, maybe this is also linked to my nature and natural behavior as a

I think it's important to remark that you are a member of syndicate of Plastic Artists & of many art societies both in Egypt and Dubai: I'm sure that our readers around the world are very interested to know more about the evolution of Near East artistic scenario. Would you like to tell us what are the current tendencies? And in particular, how does contemporary Near East scene relates with Western artistic panorama?

In Dubai, where I live now, the modernity is the common style. Sometimes modernity


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