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| Artist Statement |
| "In my work I always emphasize on the color as a significant and unifying element. It follows mainly two directions: In the first, I move into unfettered areas of fervent intensity, characterized by its expressionistic vigor through the application of thick coats of paints of various material (gouache, fingerpaint, acrylic, and oil colors) on highly textured surfaces, which I then rework partially or completely with oil pastel, producing a remarkable effect and displaying the variations of color..." Read more |
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In my work I always emphasize on the color as a significant and unifying element. It follows mainly two directions: In the first, I move into unfettered areas of fervent intensity, characterized by its expressionistic vigor through the application of thick coats of paints of various material (gouache, fingerpaint, acrylic, and oil colors) on highly textured surfaces, which I then rework partially or completely with oil pastel, producing a remarkable effect and displaying the variations of color, form, line, and movement.
In the second, which involves drawings using watercolors, pastel and pen, I create a mystical, fanciful and gothic world of trees and foliage. A world that's at once eerie and alluring. A world that exists only in one's imagination. |
| Education |
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Formal education received |
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| Academic Degree Earned |
Certificate in Fine Arts
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| Workshops attended |
? Three week course in printmaking with American artist Larry Thomas, at Darat Al-Funun Art Center, Jordan
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Notable artists /
teachers you have studied with |
Dr. Khalid Khreis, General Director of Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts |
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Record material on me as an artist |
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Reviews: |
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Top quotation from the review |
"On the works of the student Maha Abu Ghoush (Drawings): The drawings of this student held me long. She is indeed a very creative student. In her works you find a poignant melody that unites with the colors and lines, and within which her emotions are revealed pure with a mixture of childish naivity, joy and melancholy on every part of the drawing... she reminds us of the early works of Matisse and the intensity of Gauguin's colors, and the melancholy of Modigliani figures. The pastel drawings of this student is one unity in this exhibition, that does not allow you an escape... This student attempts with a spontaneous and natural feeling to place the biggest momentum of her sentiments on the surface of her drawings by drawing with brilliant, barely mixed colors and with strong bold lines, thus creating paradoxic and sharp relationships, that result in an expressionistic intensity. Does this student know that with this she has placed her foot in the heart of color enchantment and that she draws with an ultimate criterion in mind, that of the painting itself?". |
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Review by |
Iraqi artist Sadiq Kuweish |
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Name of Article |
"Impressions on the Training Center of Fine Arts Exhibition" |
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Name of Publication |
Ad-Dustour Jordanian Daily Newspaper |
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1/1/1991 |
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Name of Show |
Promising Youth |
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Date of Show |
1/1/1992 |
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