Layla Jouhar
المملكة العربية السعودية - جدة - SAUDI ARABIA - Jeddah
At the beginning of the interview, Johar told us about her beginning as a visual artist. She said that her beginning as a visual artist came through her membership in the House of Plastic Artists in the year 2000. She pointed out that she was lucky as she found everything she aspired to by engaging among a wonderful group of creative male and female artists who are members of the House. Fine artists, and its management at the time was headed by the distinguished artist Hisham Panjabi, and his deputy, the artist Abdullah Al-Nawawi, and that she had been practicing drawing before joining the house as an amateur and lover of art, and that at that time she noticed admiration for her plastic works, and requests to acquire her paintings from those around her, so her decision was to strive to refine her artistic abilities and tools.
Laila Johar indicated that she participated in group courses and workshops, in both the United States of America and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in addition to her keenness to attend educational evenings, especially those that were held at the house of the distinguished plastic artist Safiya bint Zaqr, and the Saudi Center for Fine Arts, which she attended. It is supervised by the able Mona Al-Qasabi. She studied the principles and foundations of drawing and color technique, and the foundations of portraiture using the oil technique, and participated in courses in pastel art, in addition to participating in group art exhibitions, and in national events and celebrations, such as the exhibitions of the Ministry of Culture and Information, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Riyadh, and her first artistic presence was participating in the exhibition. The nineteenth exhibition of contemporary Saudi art in 2006, exhibitions of collectibles and exhibitions of Saudi female plastic artists, and also participation through the Saudi Arabian Society for Culture and Arts in Jeddah and Riyadh and most of its exhibitions locally and internationally. During that period of training and participation, and through research and experimentation, she was able to achieve her own artistic style, and she held her first personal exhibition under the name “Man and Nature,” in which she presented a summary of her experiences with color through the use of oil and acrylic.
The artist, Laila Johar, continued by saying: The interaction through various workshops and events, with a large group of artists in the Kingdom, from within the city of Jeddah, and from various regions in her homeland, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including leading artistic figures, contributed to nourishing her visually, enhancing her artistic identity, advancing her thinking, and facilitating Delivering its aesthetic and humanitarian message to the recipient.
Meanings and symbols
Johar added: The obsession that always accompanies her in all her work is the human being in connotations, symbols and expressions devoid of form and fused with nature for its influence on our behavior as human beings, and in abstract color harmony with its rich elements. She completed her works in a color sequence with harmonious values and artistic richness, and through that she developed special artistic trends and a philosophy through which she held her personal exhibitions and exalted her artistic production.
The artist, Laila Johar, pointed out that at the beginning of her artistic practice, she dealt with black and red, and then she graduated in the color ladder, and her paintings, at the beginning of her artistic career, achieved advanced positions for two consecutive years, and through them she won awards and shields at the Jeddah Arts Atelier, directed by Hisham Qandil, and from The late pioneer Dr. Abdul Halim Radwi, and the distinguished artist Taha Al-Sabban at the Promising Women Exhibition in its sixth and seventh sessions.
Artist and writer Laila Johar believed that “it is natural for the novice and amateur painter, when he begins to practice drawing, to move between several schools until, after trials and stages, he reaches an independent direction in which he finds himself as an artist, develops his tools and enhances his style until he masters it and makes his mark in the world.” Arts, and here we can call its output creativity and not drawing, and this was its beginning, except that color, its elements and its technique were the focus of its interest.”
Johar says: “In addition to her keenness to continuously develop her artistic tools, she was keen to study criticism and visual nutrition...” She found herself connoisseur of works to a degree that overshadowed her efforts as an artist, and that she greatly enjoyed standing in front of the tempting paintings displayed by male and female artists at all levels in galleries, so she was She compares and studies these paintings and returns to her library, which is full of books on art and art history, art criticism schools, and psychology, to search for doctrines and art schools and their history, and explores the arts that are displayed here and there, and she finds in that an indescribable pleasure and an exciting excitement to uncover symbols, expressions, and connotations. Which has been included in the paintings of artists since the emergence of art in the world and across the continents, and it has not neglected to read and trace the emergence of art and its establishment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, until it established its independent entity in light of the care and thoughtful establishment given by the state.
fine arts
Man and woman are two complementary beings
Color value
The artist, Laila Johar, continued: “I discovered that I am, by nature, emotional and revolutionary, and I am tempted by pouring color thickly, mixing directly on the surface, and using quick and strong brush strokes in order to obtain a dazzling result that satisfies her energy. She was not concerned with details and composition as much as she was preoccupied with the essence of color, and her completed paintings are often exposed to... Many times she has to destroy parts of her composition at the expense of color value. All that occupies her obsession then is to reveal what is hidden within it, to breathe through color and to create an invisible world. She believes that the brush is the pulse of the painting, so she chooses it very carefully when purchasing, and the good ones are It gives amazing results, and it is her ink to express revelation and narration, and she always sees that the painting, with its white space, is a mirror that reflects facts and transforms them into other worlds, and that when she starts drawing, she contemplates the brushes she has and chooses the best ones, and that her drawing styles varied, so she painted on cardboard and slides. From wood, as well as on murals and paper of various textures and transparency, she practiced painting on eggshells, and also created collage paintings from newspaper clippings using coins. It was, according to her, an experience that resulted in a documentary painting that she participated in with the Mother Culture and Arts Society in Riyadh. At the invitation of its director at the time, Dr. Muhammad Al-Rasis, in Maar
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At the beginning of the interview, Johar told us about her beginning as a visual artist. She said that her beginning as a visual artist came through her membership in the House of Plastic Artists in the year 2000. She pointed out that she was lucky as she found everything she aspired to by engaging among a wonderful group of creative male and female artists who are members of the House. Fine artists, and its management at the time was headed by the distinguished artist Hisham Panjabi, and his deputy, the artist Abdullah Al-Nawawi, and that she had been practicing drawing before joining the house as an amateur and lover of art, and that at that time she noticed admiration for her plastic works, and requests to acquire her paintings from those around her, so her decision was to strive to refine her artistic abilities and tools.
Laila Johar indicated that she participated in group courses and workshops, in both the United States of America and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in addition to her keenness to attend educational evenings, especially those that were held at the house of the distinguished plastic artist Safiya bint Zaqr, and the Saudi Center for Fine Arts, which she attended. It is supervised by the able Mona Al-Qasabi. She studied the principles and foundations of drawing and color technique, and the foundations of portraiture using the oil technique, and participated in courses in pastel art, in addition to participating in group art exhibitions, and in national events and celebrations, such as the exhibitions of the Ministry of Culture and Information, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Riyadh, and her first artistic presence was participating in the exhibition. The nineteenth exhibition of contemporary Saudi art in 2006, exhibitions of collectibles and exhibitions of Saudi female plastic artists, and also participation through the Saudi Arabian Society for Culture and Arts in Jeddah and Riyadh and most of its exhibitions locally and internationally. During that period of training and participation, and through research and experimentation, she was able to achieve her own artistic style, and she held her first personal exhibition under the name “Man and Nature,” in which she presented a summary of her experiences with color through the use of oil and acrylic.
The artist, Laila Johar, continued by saying: The interaction through various workshops and events, with a large group of artists in the Kingdom, from within the city of Jeddah, and from various regions in her homeland, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including leading artistic figures, contributed to nourishing her visually, enhancing her artistic identity, advancing her thinking, and facilitating Delivering its aesthetic and humanitarian message to the recipient.
Meanings and symbols
Johar added: The obsession that always accompanies her in all her work is the human being in connotations, symbols and expressions devoid of form and fused with nature for its influence on our behavior as human beings, and in abstract color harmony with its rich elements. She completed her works in a color sequence with harmonious values and artistic richness, and through that she developed special artistic trends and a philosophy through which she held her personal exhibitions and exalted her artistic production.
The artist, Laila Johar, pointed out that at the beginning of her artistic practice, she dealt with black and red, and then she graduated in the color ladder, and her paintings, at the beginning of her artistic career, achieved advanced positions for two consecutive years, and through them she won awards and shields at the Jeddah Arts Atelier, directed by Hisham Qandil, and from The late pioneer Dr. Abdul Halim Radwi, and the distinguished artist Taha Al-Sabban at the Promising Women Exhibition in its sixth and seventh sessions.
Artist and writer Laila Johar believed that “it is natural for the novice and amateur painter, when he begins to practice drawing, to move between several schools until, after trials and stages, he reaches an independent direction in which he finds himself as an artist, develops his tools and enhances his style until he masters it and makes his mark in the world.” Arts, and here we can call its output creativity and not drawing, and this was its beginning, except that color, its elements and its technique were the focus of its interest.”
Johar says: “In addition to her keenness to continuously develop her artistic tools, she was keen to study criticism and visual nutrition...” She found herself connoisseur of works to a degree that overshadowed her efforts as an artist, and that she greatly enjoyed standing in front of the tempting paintings displayed by male and female artists at all levels in galleries, so she was She compares and studies these paintings and returns to her library, which is full of books on art and art history, art criticism schools, and psychology, to search for doctrines and art schools and their history, and explores the arts that are displayed here and there, and she finds in that an indescribable pleasure and an exciting excitement to uncover symbols, expressions, and connotations. Which has been included in the paintings of artists since the emergence of art in the world and across the continents, and it has not neglected to read and trace the emergence of art and its establishment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, until it established its independent entity in light of the care and thoughtful establishment given by the state.
fine arts
Man and woman are two complementary beings
Color value
The artist, Laila Johar, continued: “I discovered that I am, by nature, emotional and revolutionary, and I am tempted by pouring color thickly, mixing directly on the surface, and using quick and strong brush strokes in order to obtain a dazzling result that satisfies her energy. She was not concerned with details and composition as much as she was preoccupied with the essence of color, and her completed paintings are often exposed to... Many times she has to destroy parts of her composition at the expense of color value. All that occupies her obsession then is to reveal what is hidden within it, to breathe through color and to create an invisible world. She believes that the brush is the pulse of the painting, so she chooses it very carefully when purchasing, and the good ones are It gives amazing results, and it is her ink to express revelation and narration, and she always sees that the painting, with its white space, is a mirror that reflects facts and transforms them into other worlds, and that when she starts drawing, she contemplates the brushes she has and chooses the best ones, and that her drawing styles varied, so she painted on cardboard and slides. From wood, as well as on murals and paper of various textures and transparency, she practiced painting on eggshells, and also created collage paintings from newspaper clippings using coins. It was, according to her, an experience that resulted in a documentary painting that she participated in with the Mother Culture and Arts Society in Riyadh. At the invitation of its director at the time, Dr. Muhammad Al-Rasis, in Maar
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