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Jamil Molaeb (1948)
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Jamil Molaeb was born in Baysour near Beirut and studied fine
arts in Lebanon and Algeria before obtaining his Master’s degree
in fine art and his PhD in artistic education philosophy in the
USA. He taught at Ohio State University until 1988, when he
moved back to Lebanon. He currently teaches art at the Lebanese
University.
The following quotes are taken from the book, Jamil Molaeb, A
Self Portrait:
“My father, who has a passion for music, decided not to make it
his career because of social and religious disapproval; instead
he became a house painter. In my free time, I helped him with
his work and soon enough, paints and colors became familiar to
me. The attic was filled with paints, and so my love for
painting began.”
“ Through time, I absorbed information and knowledge in doses.
My paintings shifted from copying the world photographically to
composing original abstracted images. I relied during my studies
on many sources and sometimes fell into periods of emptiness and
total loss. Like every art student, I lived through the struggle
between the inner accumulations of desire and personal
experiences and the world of contemporary academic concepts of
art.”
“The encounter between the pen and the body, between the spirit
and the material, between the real and the imaginary and the
magic of dreams, worries me. I feel that I have to rest, but I
find no rest except in work, with the brush and canvas, with
color, the chisel and wood.”
“ There is no rest for the body and soul of the artist except
after the birth of another painting. I paint with ease. It is a
process of sticking to the first impression, like the beginning
of birth, childhood, play and joy, where the spirit lets go of
its responsibilities and the body discards the weight of daily
cares.”
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