01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes - 30

Meftah Raouf

AMOUR- حب - LOVE

Acrylic on Canvas

20 W x 40 H x 3 in

Private collection

Meftah Raouf. His love for calligraphy art and discovering art styles built his wealth and transmit it through his work. His calligraphy is the fruit of this wealth that raises questions. His calligraphy is unique and combined to other artistic techniques; they touch the heart and catch the eye of the public. Thanks to a perfect harmony between the artistic techniques, oriental and occidental ones: they create universal art where everybody can nd himself and discussing with his creations.

The absence of texts in many calligraphy doesn’t subtract anything from the story told in them. His calligraphy is a perfect combination of colors and curves, a story which hides another in each detail and in each ornament, and we can discover many episodes in the same painting and sometimes well hidden, you just have to nd the best way to communicate with his work because it invites us to look and admire his paintings by the heart before the eyes.

In other words, calligraphy is from his spirit and soul, so the painting is the fruit of his imagination. To communicate with his work is to allow our soul to project us far away from our imagination. Mastering the two techniques is like comparing our soul to an imaginary world.

This is how he challenges us and how he built his style, unique for him. More on Meftah Raouf

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01 Paintings, of The amorous game, Part 12 - With Footnotes

Alvaro Guillot, Uruguayan, (1931 - 2010) 

Do You Love Me, c.1979 

Serigraph

30 in. x 23 in. (76.2 cm x 58.42 cm) 

Private Collection

Alvaro Guillot (1931–2010) was a French artist born in Uruguay. He was a notable exponent of the "new surrealist school".

Guillot's post-surrealist late 20th and early 21st century acrylics and oils celebrated New Mexico landscapes, cats, horses, bovines, stunted juniper upllands, prominent green, red and yellow chili peppers, with color schemes and adroit shadows that defied all previous Western landscape artistic visions; borrowing from none, embracing something altogether new and intoxicating. There are vestiges of his early years in South America, but also the best of mid-century Paris, and contemporary Cuban art.

Guillot remained a quiet presence for over two decades in Santa Fe, New Mexico, shunning exhibitions and most galleries, preferring the sheer joys of privacy amongst a select coterie of like-minded friends, most notably, Jean Morrison.

Known by his closest colleagues as one of the great raconteurs, satirists and political pundits  he was also an exquisitely talented - but again, private - writer whose memoirs about such close friends of his as the great Salvador Dalí and architect, Le Corbusier, as well as Picasso, will soon be published.


Some of Guillot's exploits were fictionalized in the Michael Tobias novel, The Adventures of Mr Marigold (2005). More on Alvaro Guillot

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