71ART: PAINTING
JOSEPH MATAR: THE LAST HURRAH OF THE LAST
GREAT MASTERS OF THE GRAND ORIENT
Paintings by Matar: The Alpha and the Omega. A trinity of celestial visions,
enchanted esthetics and humanism.
We sense all these humanistic and very touching feelings, and we relive
those lyrical and peaceful moments and passages of time through the
mesmerizing colors, forms and strokes of the genius of Joseph Matar. This
sublime artist and poet wrote: "For more
than fifty years one idea has tormented me, has haunted my dreams and has
set me aflame. Like the ceaseless waves of the seas and the oceans eating
into the shore, it has sculpted in my soul deep convictions leading to a
creation of another order – the creation, or rather re-creation, of the
whole history of humanity under all its aspects, social, religious,
artistic, historical, technical, poetic, and humanist and all else. The
Supreme Creator and any creator, both perform the same great act, that of
creation. It has also been my desire to lay stress on the feminine role,
that of the woman who is goddess, poet, fairy and charmer, the woman who is
motherhood, grace, love, selfless generosity and all goodness, the woman who
is mystery, beauty, heroine, courage..., virtue, wisdom and inspiration.
Finally the conception saw the light of day in the year 2003. Research,
hundreds of outlines, sketches, drawings, geometrical tracings and forms,
lines, constructions and compositions! When one embarks on such a task there
is no more time for sleep! Every three canvases form one composition, a
unity. The first canvas opens with an incomparable feminine presence, the
Holy Virgin. During these last days of February, 2004, I have just finished
some fifty square metres, but the work before me is very hard and will take
up much time. It supposes a firm resolve, much love, much will-power, and of
course a fund of artistic ability." And this is exactly what you see and
sense in the admirable work of Joseph Matar. You witness the divinity of art
in every whisper he sends free over his canvases. Matar is one of the
greatest living artists of our time.
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