Beirut - Painter finds way to depict Syrian tragedy
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A woman curls up in grief in a darkened room — an artist’s image as powerful as any of the thousands of photos and videos from Syria’s civil war flashing across the world’s computer and television screens.
The sketch is the work of 63-year-old painter and illustrator Youssef Abdelke, who stayed on in his Damascus studio as scores of his contemporaries left to escape a conflict approaching its fourth year.
Silver-haired Abdelke has found a personal way of reporting on the hardships of fellow Syrians, using charcoal and paper.
“I think all the works in one way or another try to express the concerns and emotions of the ordinary Syrian citizen amid this huge river of blood,” he said at a gallery in Beirut where dozens of his works were on display.
Many of them focus on small, intimate moments, rather than trying to make sweeping statements about a civil war that has killed 130,000 people, driven millions from their homes and devastated Syrian cities.
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