Calligraphy in modern painting
The widespread practice of introducing Arabic calligraphy into a modern painting does not arabize the painting, nor modernize the calligraphy ...
A tour of my exhibit
here you can have a brief tour of the exhibit ‘kameel Hawa drawing the line’, which comprises litho prints, art...
the other tourism
Leave a small empty gap in your traveling bag, when you are going on a trip. Just as a symbolic reminder...
The age of two speeds.. HAPPY NEW WHAT YEAR?
One of the earliest notions we learnt about this age is that it is the age of speed. Everything is...
Beirut takes a new turn!
To see my design of Beirut tattooed on the arm of a beautiful young girl, was for me such a...
A short story of a free choice… Why Kameel not Camille
Up you go! Creative Social’ the group that invited me for a talk to their Beirut meeting, asked me to send...
The coke article
A few years ago, I wrote an article about Coke’s return to its old classic logo. Long since forgotten, I...
No one told me?
During school days I learnt that Al-Akhtal, the poet of the Omayyad dynasty, was Christian, and the story was told...
Writing a line…or two
Line sketches, are the springs of my Beirut exhibition. Old and new, were brought in, so to speak, and reproduced...
How do I start a type design..
Two students of type design asked me about the first phases of developing a type design i answered from my personal...
ART IN THE MAKING
ART starts with feeling. And ends up (in visual arts) as something you want to keep looking at. I define art as...
Cut a piece of your wife’s’ dress, or How not to look at a modern painting
The best way to look at a piece of modern art, mainly abstract art, is to forget that it is abstract....
Taste in time
It seems that in human history, artistic taste and aesthetic values do not evolve or get finer with the passage of time.They...
“shadows are shy reality”
I like shadows. They are like shy reality! Another form of reflection without a mirror. The kinship of shadow and loneliness is...