From my humble experience and intermingling within the
cultural milieu of Iraq... I've heard stories of art fanciers who would roam
every single country but to feel the heart of art... I will be specifically
talking about painting in my country.
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| Karradah, Baghdad, Iraq |
One of the best ever evidences for me to support my view as
how precious the Iraqi art is that when I’ve came across some German art specialists
who had previously the opportunity to visit the artistic outlet at Karradah,
Baghdad where you can see dozens and dozens of works on every single side of
the place if you’d ever been there. Those Germans declared that there aren't
any artistically energetic place in the world but Montmartre and that humble marketplace
in Baghdad. I thought about it for a while and came up with, what I can say
like, an analysis of why the whole world doesn't have such places but Baghdad
and Paris which both couldn't be in a way or another comparable. I came into
similarities and differences and found that Extremes might meet up especially
when they have one thing in common.
Let’s begin with the extremes... What are the extremes of these
two holistically different ambiances?!
France DO encourage every person to be an artist. You can’t
imagine how the art is in the essence of Paris and how it takes an ample domain
in the creation of La Vie Parisenne. Iraq, on the contrary, does NOT encourage
anybody to be an artist... In addition, the nature of Iraq offers but some
gloomy deserted landscape lacking all the natural diversity of Europe. The other
extreme thing is that French community is artistic in every aspect and only the
elite would meet up in Montmartre or cultural carnivals. So, it would be the
elite of the already artistically elite community. Frankly speaking, most of
the Iraqi community ridicule the artistic aspect of everything. So, the Iraqi
artist should distance himself from his own community and abandon his own
friends to live in and meet up with only the relatively small circle of people,
the Iraqi artists, and that seclusion should create but a proper channel to
create elite artists.
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| Montmartre, Paris, France |
I think the picture is being clearer for you know… you are beginning
to feel the resemblance between Parisian and Baghdadi elite artistic circles...
Yes! It’s Bohemia! Bohemian lifestyle which creates, due to normal human
relations retirement, a space for creative imagination and some kind of
beautiful positive craziness to be innovative, original and imaginative... that
is to know nothing about human mind limits... So that was the common thing between Iraqi and
French artistic milieus and the rest of the world communities which are in
between regarding community acceptance of art always have their artists
indulged more into everyday life and interact with every person of the
community without those limitless creative circles and they may work as to
carry out the demanded work and getting paid for it and that’s it.
That was in my humble opinion on how such community extremes
could meet up it something productive and splendid as painting. My opinions but
represent myself. However, I really wish that all of the Iraq’s interior
extremes could find their common goals and could be honest and sincere with
each other. I don’t have anything but HOPE...
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