Artist Alia Ismail Moayad: Human faces represent life. So I strive to explore each face I encounter. [Archives:2000/37/Last Page]

Human faces represent life. So I strive to explore each face I encounter.

The first impression one gets when he/she knows the artist Alia Ismail Moayad is that she is calm, modest, tender who has faith and is determined to achieve her aims.
Briefly this is what should be mentioned about artist, Ali. Alia, who presently studies plastic art in Poland, links her paintings with her own personality confessing that without such a characteristic, the artist would be far away from the truth whatever his/her style was.
The desire to draw blossomed in her life when she started realizing her surroundings. That desire was even strengthened more by her family, lovers of fine arts.
Realizing that talent itself can not do, Alia, after primary school, joined a secondary school for fine arts in Poland where she lives and where her techniques and styles developed. After she finished her secondary school she made up her mind to continue her higher studies in the Academy of Fine Arts in Poland.
After the secondary school Alia underwent a tendency to realism using red, yellow and orange colors.
As for her water colored pictures, there is a contradiction in using tender visible color accompanied with wide brush strokes. I always use red, yellow and orange colors in my works. This even made my teachers distinguish my paintings easily from the first color strokes, she says.
Her paintings of the Yemeni antiquities and landscapes make many people think they (the paintings) are imaginary. She merely captures Yemeni houses and cities and their beauty. It is my passion and that is why I chose the Yemeni windows (Qamariat) to be the subject of my graduation thesis in the secondary school for fine arts.
Alia has recently visited Yemen. This visit provided her with a chance to visit many workshops of qamariat and ceramics. I admire the talent and skills of Yemeni artists. Though they depend on simple and primitive means none can help admiring them, she said.
Among her beautiful works are one portraying two children and another showing a baby face. In both pictures she strove to show her extra-sensitivity.
It is human faces that she is always trying to go beyond their facial expressions seeking for the truth of life.

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