ART

ART By Maximillien de Lafayette

Mar ina Kharma

Meet The First Lady of Painting and Neo Romantic Classicism of the Middle and Near Eastern World…

Enter the enchanting world of Marina Kharma, a universe of one million rainbows and splashes of lights and colors…a journey into the beauty, the warmth, the magic, the tender sweet moments and nostalgia of dreamlands, gardens of roses, lilac, cyclamens, memories and wild roses blooming in the valleys at each dawn and sunset…warm houses and friends at the door to welcome you…exploding waves on the shores…baskets of flowers and rays of hopes hanging from the balconies…rose, roses, colors, colors, beauty, beauty everywhere…old windows hiding behind bushes of wild flowers and hanging on their own in time…in moments of time we wish we can capture for ever. Don’t worry friend, because Marina has captured for you that enchanting world and those fragile and delightful moments on her canvases. Look around, explore Marina’s universe…look at those superb paintings. You can live around them for ever. They have everything for you, the summer, the winter, the spring, the autumn and more seasons than you can handle. Yes, they have everything you need; the oceans and their waves, the waves and their shores, the shores and their rocks, the rocks and what make a rock sublime and eloquently silent. Yes sir, her paintings offer you whatever you eyes, your soul, your heart and you mind need; from a cozy warm room dressed with light, an old hand made antique chair to the immensity of valleys and prairies, from dear friends gathering around dark wood table on the veranda awaiting you arrival to visions and images you hang on the horizon and infinity of time Marina paints and captures in her paintings. Marina Kharma succeeded in capturing the beauty and reality of the world and all what we talked about simply because she is one with nature. Maybe she is one with the “Divine”!?…simply, because she has the talent, the magic, the genius, the art, the technique, the discipline and beauty in her heart.

Marina’s Technique and Art

You don’t have to be an art critic or an expert on art to understand her style and engage yourself in discussions and dialogues about her technique and genius. When you are before a great art, don’t talk. Because words will loose their value. Your silence would become more eloquent and more truthful. Look at Marina Kharma’s paintings and just enjoy the moment! As you see, there are no harsh strokes on her canvases, there is no extra academic effort and no extra last pursuit for artistic excellence in her work…you get what you see and you see exactly what you get: Pure, simple, human, truthful, realistic, impressionistic, sensitive, colorful feelings, sensations and expressions common to her, common to you and common to your friends and those who live in your neighborhood… Marina Kharma knows very well how to invite nature to her paintings. And nature, my friend, is at home on the canvas of Marina Kharma. Everything is awaiting nature on Marina’s canvases; the colors, the theme, the variety of subjects, spaces, times, moments…Marina knows how to prepare her canvas. Beauty breathes with joy when beauty is flirting over her canvases…Marina’s technique is humanistic. Marina’s artistic method does not need explanation, because her uncompromising and friendly talent does not overwhelm you. It was never meant to impress you and make you feel inferior because she is a greater painter than you are. On the contrary, her technique is so simple to a point where simplicity becomes ultimate knowledge of colors, relation between the most intimate vibrations of colors and most discreet forms of thoughts. The painting itself does not end at the four edges of its contour. It is not limited by a wooden cage or a frame. Whatever you see in her paintings, whether it is a vase on a table, a tall tree with golden leaves, a photograph of an old relative, a solid oak table on the veranda, whatever you see as a painted object does not stay for ever in the same place on her canvas. Those objects are so real in their simplicity and so real in their presence, they make you feel at ease and at liberty to move them around….and that is not simplicity…that is what I call great mastery of art.