I dedicate this article to those who make love permeate its fragility in order to strengthen it, to those who make love life and express it as a goal and means .. Read the paintings with me and live brave
The issue of human feelings has always baffled us. We think that human feelings are very limited, but sometimes we feel that our feelings are not fully understood and that we do not know what we want for some time. In the book “A Man After Modernization” by Dr. Sherif Arafa, the researcher describes to us how we can feel many emotions at the same time, so that the language and the tongue are unable to express those emotional blocks that afflict us.
Those are the feelings .. We try to explore the space, the oceans, the caves of the earth and the forgotten caves, the forests and the exiled tribes far from humanity, but we do not try to explore within us, and if we try, every time we discover more that makes us ourselves one of the biggest confusing mysteries. We as human beings are not all of us with the same mind and understanding, the environment, society and circumstances, whatever they are physical, social or even environmental, they affect us and our outlook on life as well as affect our imprint that we leave on others, so we are a group that is difficult to study and consider its actions and set laws that determine how to deal with it Or why are you doing that way?
What about love? When I told my mom a while ago, I'm not going to marry someone I don't love, she asked me what love is for you? How will you know that this love is what will establish your life? I could not answer, for love is for me a vague feeling in which my motherhood is mixed with a feeling of nostalgia with a little pride intertwined with sacrifice, for me: to love means to contain, to understand, to change, to appreciate and to encourage and it will arrive with me sometimes to be a second mother worries and dazed when you hear your cough from the next room.
By God, how will I describe this in a word or formulate it in a situation in which we are debating as if we are competing for elections for an invisible country on the world map?
When I went to tell a friend, I found her who says love is a company whose capital must be patience and enough money. Another friend denied the existence of love, explaining her point of view that marriage is an institution that goes according to a plan and with time the partner will become accustomed because it will become by virtue of habit and the contract .. permanent presence around you .
My third friend reminded me of the artist “Sherine Abdel Wahab” because - almost - he said what she said several years ago after the divorce: The more my partner gave me tenderness, I would give him double, the more he miserly me, he would not find me giving him even a piece of bread. Love is giving and receiving and not a single path, rather it is a road with two faces and two sides. "We have a common history. We can look at the past and narrate the events of the days we lived together, and calculate the sorrows and joys. This is how love is made, without haste ... and day by day." An undersea island by Isabel Allende
Well, how did the artists portray love in their paintings? We know that art is not only paintings, pieces of music, poems and books that become with time books of heritage that immortalize love, such as the "divine comedy" written by "Dante Alegre" and portrayed by an angel who encounters him on his last journey from hell to heaven.
We all know that art is a translation of what we feel, so it comes out of us in a drawing or a piece or even a group of words lined up side by side creating a feeling running in your blood that makes you envy the writer for his pen.
Today we are talking about one type of art .. Of course, in a very brief way, we mention how some paintings depicted love in colors, the situations of lovers, or even in the way of expressing the faces drawn. Visual art, like painting, is art that not every hand or every soul is good at.
There are painters who have taken the faces of their wives as a source of inspiration .. In the book "Diaries of a Genius" by the famous surrealist painter "Daly", in most of his diaries, he made it clear in most of his diaries that had it not been for his girlfriend and his wife, he would not have been able to create those paintings, and that he is dying for her presence every day near him, he accepts and encourages him She is a rare inspiration that only exists in the possession of a lucky Daly.
We have many and many of those paintings that dealt with love, dealing with it with all the brushstrokes of the painting, and there are paintings that alternated other topics. Come with me to see a painting or two to celebrate our humanity, which, if finished, will be her pride. She tried to cultivate herself with art, science and literature, and she tried to create something that makes us rise above our cruelty, which increases with the increase in ignorance.
"WALK" by "Mark Chagall"
I will describe the painting to you , though it is better if you search for it to see the extent of the love and its beautiful portrayal. Who was the subject of the painting? He is the same “Mark Zagarovich Chagall” and his first wife whom he loved so much, “Bella Rosenfeld”. The painting depicts Mark while he is on the ground steady on it, holding the hand of "Bella", which is flying in the air .. Yes, it is like a balloon and it is the thread that holds it to the ground! The painting was explaining the extent of his love for her, no matter how far away or not ... it also depicted love that was not separated by distances, even if that distance was the earth and the sky! "Bella" was the subject of most of Marc's paintings. His inspiration, love and work were the thread that linked his work to success.
Painting "The Lovers" by "Rene Magritte"
The two lovers of "René Magritte", that mysterious and poetic painting at the same time, I will describe to you the painting, two lovers in a very close position, exchange kisses but put hoods on their faces, a feature that was a milestone in a group of paintings of Magritte paintings .. There are many The paintings are of people wearing hoodies and there is more than one explanation, and I could not discern which of them is more true, but it is logical to believe that everything that happens in our life we bring it out in many forms ... as an act, as a poem, as dancing, singing, crying, or even isolation.
Magritte and his hooded surreal paintings are said to be attributed to ambiguity, an expression of alienation, alienation, and loneliness. And there are those who say that when his mother committed suicide in the “Sambre River”, she wore a scarf that was wrapped around her face when they were able to remove the body from the river, and therefore that scarf had an impact on what came later in her son’s wonderful surreal future.
Whatever the reason, the two pain is near, despite the presence of the barrier of those fabrics that wrap them, but love is visible and apparent, as if both of them are inside a cap in a bubble, but love reaches and crosses the barriers! "Everything we see hides something else within it, and we always care about the hidden in what we see." Renee Magritte
"The Kiss" by "Edvard Munch"
Munch, the genius who makes you understand just from the very first glance of a painting, discern the meaning and discern his distinctive brushstrokes, whatever the painting. The painting depicts two lovers uniting into one body, a long kiss that combines two bodies and two faces into one face. At first glance, it seems that they are two bodies trying to merge and merge only for the sake of a kiss. Love is embodied in those kisses and calm colors ... that merging that takes place beside a window. Nobody outside seems to care about those inside, nor does it seem that lovers are trying to stand in front of the window, but they forget the world and merge together in a painting that depicts that love is to become a part From the other .. without the need to think, love rules.
The last painting, which is a good conclusion, the painting that dazzled people with the position of its heroes, that position that bears complete containment, full tenderness and kiss that do not represent anything from the position of the lovers, as a father surrounds his daughter, as a lover who protects his love, as tenderness gives tenderness in a position .. "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt
Do you realize what I'm talking about right now? The golden color, the color of brightness and prosperity, that bright color merging with the man who holds the woman's face to kiss her with passion and decency. Klimt depicted love, life and death. Klimt used colors to find it in expression. He broke many of the rules of his age, and most importantly, he was able to depict love in an age in which it was not allowed to express freely, at least now many of the planet’s inhabitants know about that painter who made From gold to love, and to make of lovers kings.
Love resides in us, but expressing it requires energy, patience and courage. As a lover or as a photographer of love, you will not be able to say I love you or even to visualize love without being brave .. Are you a brave, patient reader?
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