Jardinier des apparences – Gardener of Epiphanies – Omar Onsi
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Le Jardinier des apparences – The Gardener of Epiphanies – Omar Onsi
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LebanonPostcard présente le livre Le Jardinier des apparences – The Gardener of Epiphanies – Omar Onsi. Hardcover book with protection, 32×25 cm, 113 pages – Le Conseil des Relations Economiques Extérieures – Livre en Français et Anglais (Livre usé mais encore neuf).
Omar Onsi naît en 1901, à Beyrouth, et il meurt en 1969 dans cette même ville: entre ces deux dates, une vie entièrement consacrée à la peinture. Une peinture de grande qualité, une oeuvre aux techniques diversifiées, qui font d’Onsi-à côté de ses contemporains qui s’appellent Moustapha Farroukh, César Gemayel, Saliba Douaïhy ou Rachid Wehbi – l’un des “pères fondateurs” de l’art libanais moderne en rupture avec les académismes. A vrai dire, ces “pères fondateurs” avaient été eux-mêmes précédés dans la création plastique par un certain nombre de maîtres et d’initiateurs qui, sans avoir l’originalité ni la plénitude de leurs successeurs immédiats, avaient toutefois enseigné à ceux-ci à regarder, à observer, à dessiner, à manier couleurs et pinceaux, à imaginer et à composer. Et surtout à “sentir” le paysage du Liban, dans ce qu’il a d’irréductible, et les personnages poétiques et pittoresques, qui sont comme l’émanation de ce paysage, dans ce qu’ils ont de plus typique.
Cet album consacré à la vie et à l’oeuvre d’Omar Onsi, vouées toutes deux à l’exaltation du Liban dans des images d’une grande sensibilité et d’une puissante charge suggestive, constitue à la fois une présentation d’ensemble de cette oeuvre et une description de ce destin d’artiste particulièrement exemplaire.
La préface de l’ouvrage nous introduit-avec, à l’appui, dates, rencontres, amitiés, voyages-aux événements personnels ou collectifs qui ont modelé la personnalité du peintre et l’ont poussé à devenir le chantre d’une lumière raffinée et paisible, l’évocateur de formes harmonieuses subtilement composées dans les plus justes accords de la matière colorée, le graphiste admirablement délié qui a su porter l’aquarelle à l’une de ses expressions accomplies. Et c’est, simultanément, à une analyse des thèmes traités par Onsi et des techniques adoptées pour le traitement de ces thèmes, eux-mêmes profondément liés à une quête de l’identité, que se livre le présent ouvrage, qui propose à l’amateur – au niveau de la réflexion comme à celui de la délectation artistique -quelques-unes des clés de la créativité picturale libanaise. Car lorsqu’un grand artiste comme Onsi s’exprime, il parle au nom de toute la collectivité humaine dont il fait partie et dont il se trouve être, par son talent et par son inspiration, l’un des formulateurs naturels.
Fils du Liban d’hier et, tout pétri des couleurs, de la lumière et de l’harmonie du paysage libanais, Omar Onsi, par son art lyrique et mesuré, est “le jardinier des apparences” les plus riantes, apparences qui ont longtemps fait la beauté quasi-mythique de ce pays.
L’ouvrage est divisé, au plan iconographique, en six parties, chacune offrant un aspect particulier de l’art Onsi:”Paysages”, “Portraits”, “Natures Mortes”, “Scènes Folkloriques», “Pastels”, “Sujets Divers”.
In English: Omar Onsi was born at Beirut in 1901 and died there in 1969 after a lifelong devotion to art.
In the quality and technical diversity of his painting, Omar Onsi- along with his contemporaries Moustapha Farroukh, César Gemayel, Saliba Douaihy and Rachid Wehbi – is one of the “founding fathers” of modern Lebanese art in its break with academicism. Admittedly, before those “founding fathers”, there had been a number of Lebanese practitioners of the plastic arts: masters and pioneers who, without possessing either the originality or the full accomplishment of their immediate successors, had nevertheless taught them to look and observe, to draw, to handle colours and brushes, to imagine and compose: and above all to “feel” the irreducible characteristics of Lebanon’s landscape, with its poetic, picturesque denizens.
This album on the life and work of Omar Onsi, devoted as they were to the exaltation of Lebanon in highly sensitive and powerfully evocative images, provides an overall survey of that work and relates the life-story of an exemplary artist.
The preface, with the aid of references to dates, encounters, friendships, travels, introduces the personal or collective events which helped shape the painter’s personality and stimulated him to become the celebrant of a refined and peaceful light, the conjuror of harmonious forms subtly composed within the true assonances of the coloured matter, the admirably supple draughtsman who handled watercolour to perfection. The preface likewise analyses Onsi’s themes and the techniques he adopted in dealing with those themes, which were profoundly bound up with a quest for identity.
In so doing, at the level of reflection no less than of aesthetic delectation, it suggests some of the possible keys to Lebanese pictorial creativity. For when a great artist like Omar Onsi expresses himself, he speaks in the name of the entire community to which he belongs and, through his talent and inspiration, becomes the natural instrument of its self-articulation.
Saturated as he was with the colours, light and harmony of the Lebanese landscape, this son of the Lebanon of yesteryear, with his lyric, measured art, was the “gardener” of those lovely “epiphanies” which have from time immemorial made of Lebanon a land of quasi-mythical beauty.
The illustrative part of this work is divided into six sections, each devoted to one particular aspect of the art of Omar Onsi: “Landscapes”, Portraits”, “Still-Life”, “Folk-Scenes”, “Pastels”, “Miscellaneous”.
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