Ezzuldin Chammout

Ezzudin Chammout is a painter, photographer and researcher in the science and affairs of contemporary plastic art. He lives on the move between Damascus, which he sees as the spring that provides his soul, feelings and conscience with instigators of creativity and innovation, and Paris, which he considers a studio. He taught art in Damascus and Paris. He specialized in the art of graphic and taught it for a period at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University, but proceeded to produce the multicultural art painting. In parallel, he wrote in the affairs and passions of contemporary plastic art. He developed several books, including: The Value of Visual Work between Money and Beauty 1991, Definition of the Art of Etching and Printing 1992, Language of Visual Art (Visual Signage Science) 1993, Critique of Abstract Art 1998, Crisis of Visual Art 2000. His childhood lived in the Maidan neighbourhood of Damascus and Busra Al-Sham in Horan. The beginnings of his artistic talent, touching the trail to the art that is known to his features in the calligraphy studio, Hikmat in the Khaja market in Damascus, then in the Badawi calligraphy studio, and then with the artist Nazim Jafari. He received his high school degree in 1959. He then joined the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus in 1961 (High institute of Fine Arts). After graduating, Ezzuldin Chammout returned to the college and travelled back to Paris, where he pursued his higher studies at the Higher National School of Fine Arts, and later at the Sorbonne University, from which he received his doctorate in art science, then returned to Damascus to teach the subject of graphic at the College of Fine Arts, for a period of time.