Mahmmoud Hammad

The artist Mahmoud Hammad was born in Damascus in 1923 and died in 1988. He studied fine art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In 1957, he graduated as an art teacher at a number of Damascus high schools and institutes. He then went on to teach at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts, which was founded in 1960 under the Ministry of Education. He headed the college's photography department, then served as dean between 1970 and 1980. The artist Hammad's experience is distributed in three main stages: the first spanning from 1940 until 1958. Her uncle was an experimental researcher who was reluctant to identify his artistic personality. Despite the various influences that have marred this stage, and the modesty of its artistic work, It remained within the simplified realities. As it began to form and crystallize, his artistic character, whose first article was The Syrian countryside, in its different attitudes, is gradually the elements of his painting are begining to evolve, moving away from diagnosed visuals, thereby paving the third stage in which he explicitly declared his affiliation with the craftsmanship that he had been engaged in until his death. In its third phase, Hammad used abstract forms that derived from the unique abilities of the Arabic letter, He employed them in the construction court's configurations, drafted with the vision of an expert and accomplished photographer, Led him to achieve an abstract painting of letters, in which he didn't insist much the direct meaning of the letter or word, but the support of its building, And the depth of its expression, which led him to accomplish a new and unique painting of letters, Today, one of the most important and outstanding features of the .contemporary Arab diversion stream