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Zuhair Hassib with one of his paintings. Credit: Karlos Zurutuza/IPS
SULEYMANIA, Iraqi Kurdistan, Aug 29 2013 (IPS) - Zuhair Hassib did not witness the last and the most ghastly massacre in Syria. Images of last year’s Siege of Homs were enough for the artist
to have seen. His paintings have brought those horrors home in a way pictures could never have.
On a canvas, black and red silhouettes surround a group of pale and naked children about to be massacred.
“Beauty is the best tool to convey suffering,” says Hassib, one of the most renowned painters in the Middle East.A part of Hassib’s work has been on display since Jun. 20 at the main art gallery in downtown Suleymania, 260 kilometres northeast of Baghdad. It is a collection of 20 paintings among which women and “symphony of eight pure colours” are seemingly the main threads.
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