Caricatures To Reveal a Man's Soul

A Contest for Caricatures

 

 

Wonderful features revealing lost spirits that found themselves re-shaping and embodying different angles and curves, to jump over past ideas into new prosperous ones..

 

By: Dina F. Ali Faidhy

Drawings by: Mustafa Ali

A perfect balance does not necessary refer to a perfect choice!

Going through "Art" contests and exhibitions in Germany would no doubt demands a strong academic artistic aesthetics, such aesthetics is embraced by an amazing technology and modernism as an art itself. Mostafa Ali had made his life go through such boost modernism as the hardest choice in his life, to work his fate out and in, as a German citizen of Iraqi roots that once, had crafted painting and art in early youth. With a medical scientific degree of veterinary kept aside, and a hard time labour work enduring thick horizons of continuous snow, he put his beloved art and past tough courses of painting on a high shelf of good memories and went on fighting for better life for him and his family. It was always the same answer: "No, I don't have the time to draw now", whenever I asked him about his hobby and natural craft. "I keep old drawings aside now, I'm not intending to go through any contest yet", was his reply whenever I asked him weather he participated in an event or not.

It seems I was never had the chance to feel my brother's original person. I was seeking the soul that I had near me as a mate, since ever.

Fortunately, and at last I had the chance to see his drawings again. I would thank his vacation from (work mania) to open drawing's gate wide, and let him draw these fine and wonderful caricatures to reveal lost spirits that found themselves re-shaping and embodying different angles and curves to jump over past ideas into new prosperous ones.

The contest was asking for symbols and decoration designs, maybe figures to explain present problems more than my brother's caricature curves and bodies. Having graded as "Ideas that stand of their own" was indeed a stand for him by great specialists; in my opinion strong enough to encourage him to go ahead, with a little pity that they did not take him inside contest court. That missed contest of caricatures was indeed a contest for my brother's deep; to catch it once again after a long time of struggle.

Hard times can be forgotten once a pen, or a brush, dances freely and willingly on a platform of beloved features buried inside one's mind years and years ago.  

Mostafa's soul was revealed by simple lines and colours; they are calling for peace, love and simplicity figuring one man and one woman as mates sticking together for better and for worse, leaving no chance to say "no". The one shaped figure and the balanced pose, have strong message of keeping up, and never surrender, while global signs and tags brought a nice strategy of faked symbols to cheer up cruel and hard present!

Frameless and freely hanged in the air though your drawings and paintings are left; they had sure brought their attention. Standing of their own, surely they are as they said; made me stand up and respectfully, for having my brother's soul mate back.