There is no wisdom without within its folds reside visions and imaginative perceptions that give rise to the beauty of intellectual certainty, or vice versa, to serve as a light that visually illuminates the path for those who want to walk the path of life with beauty and understanding that leads to peace. The artist Muhammad Qabawa carried the torch of fatalistic wisdom in his paintings embroidered with human inspirations and the comprehensiveness of visual movement with the power of line and color to instill the spirit of interaction with the entire human existence. Coercive wisdom is like actions, not words, and several interpretations emerge from it, because it is the summary of actions and reactions. With the visual artist Muhammad Qabawa, we conducted this dialogue:
{Aesthetic power is a knot that the artist, writer, and meditator often dismantles. How do you see the aesthetic power in the word and what are its effects in your paintings?
– Perhaps a person’s latent imaginations make him indulge in sentences and phrases of aesthetic power that he captures and embodies through color and plastic formulation, represented by his personal feelings, his life experience, and his behaviors with their changes between the past and the present, to arouse his attention with those sentences or phrases, and arouse his attention with what he was not proficient in with those expressions in the word. . As for its effects, it is represented by his view of intellectual beauty and its surroundings, and its effects are unlimited and encourage the creation of an interpretation and a formative language that expresses that word, in addition to his latent experiences, character, and vision of the environment in which he lived, refined him, and was accustomed to understanding and loving it.
{Mohamed Qabawa between modernity aesthetically and postmodernism visually in the innovative sense. What do you see and what are you trying to develop?
– It is necessary to be consistent and contemporary with the present and future times. The past cannot be rejected because it was the way to present the present. Renewed research makes me take risks and develop what I can in it, practice, research and experiments.
{Gebraic literature carries wisdom, and in your paintings you were able to obscure the common vision between you and the meaning of Gabriel’s sayings. Do you consider this a woven or complex imagination?
– I often saw myself in Gibran Khalil Gibran’s book (The Prophet), as if it represented me. I loved it so much that I couldn’t find the necklace in it, as if it was my real inspiration.
{Mohamed Qabawa between today and yesterday and fine art. What do color and shape mean to you?
Color and shape are the essence of all moving beings and all of humanity. Wherever we as humans turn, we have shapes and colors in front of us. What distinguishes a human being is seeing the relative aesthetic shapes and colors that he has always loved and desired. This applies to me today. It is the closest I can come to interacting with this era of development. And a presence so that I do not reject yesterday through its course, because it was the reason for arriving at the present.
{Do you seek to create human meaning in life through art? Or is it belief in the principle of beauty according to the artist Muhammad Qabawa?
– They are completely linked. To separate beauty and human meaning, this complements that and vice versa.
{Is there an aesthetic emotion that governs your artistic brush and nourishes it with the factor of visual development in movement and its foundations?
– I do not think that anyone does not love beauty wherever and whatever it is, but perhaps I will try to shed light on the quality of beauty that I acquired from life and that forced me to wander around it because it is the correct way out of the complex of negativities. This visual development today and tomorrow makes me more passionate about self-development. Because what is happening today with these technologies is a great challenge for the artist, in terms of development in electronics and other sciences, etc.
But it is possible to benefit from it by familiarizing yourself with the data of the arts without falling into the pitfalls of these techniques (it is a double-edged sword) that either benefits you or destroys you. There is no doubt that it helps many activities, but taking it without the mind, heart and hand, it does not quench a person’s thirst except by form.
