Lebanon through the Ages by artist Victor Haddad
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Lebanon through the Ages – In fifty-three paintings by artist Victor Haddad. In Three Languages: English, French, and Arabic – Size: 31.5 x 24 x 1.5 cm, hardcover, 142 pages, weight 1.4kg, 2002.
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LebanonPostcard presents the book: Lebanon through the Ages – In fifty-three paintings by artist Victor Haddad (Liban à travers les âges – En cinquante trois tableaux). In Three Languages: English, French, and Arabic – Size: 31.5 x 24 x 1.5 cm, hardcover, 142 pages, weight 1.4kg, 2002.
Information is taken from the Historian and Archaeologist Nina Jidejian, the book “the Phoenicians” by Ildefonse Sarkis and from the book “Liban L’Autre Rive”
Read comments: Victor Haddad: Design, Space for Legends
With his brush and colors, he related history and, between transparent lips, tales of Gods, stories of love and tragedies, legends and fairy tales.
Victor Haddad uses interior design to build a framework for his paintings, so he brought up again space around symbols, and the visual touch around headlines having left their prints on Phoenician coasts, Murex purple, anemone, sacrifice, and Gods merging with humans to become part of their life and fate.
The legendary history appears inside the painting in its three dimensions, and is revealed to the eye as if in line with the present time, and stories from the past, from these books that are still relating the beginning of the human being, his evolution through time and geography.
In the style of a story-teller, Victor Haddad sketches spacious areas that can hold memory, generously wrapping details and engraving them as precious jewels in the core of a metal.
He endeavored for his favored air identifying colors to be a picture of this remote memory so he studied the history of his country, not from a political viewpoint, but he embarked on an old Phoenician boat that took him to the very beginning so as to reflect about men who created, discovered and wove legends of Gods, until they became an image reflecting the course of man.
His painting is a mirror of time so crystal clear, that the post can be reflected in all its precise detail, celebratory atmosphere, and the tools used by ancients to shape their crafts and rituals. He distinguished each and every Phoenician city with a series of paintings relating its essence and characteristics: Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, Carthage, Tripoli, Afka, the Baalbeck and the Andalucia.
The framework of his paintings is in the words of arches, columns, horses, ships, and seas. Details of these paintings are rich in coins, shells, veils, the purple of the Murex, Greek, Roman and Phoenician writings.
Victor Haddad unfolds the pages of old history and feels at ease with his heritage rich in the glory of its stones, sarcophaguses, and destiny woven on the loom of life, death and rebirth. Out of these metaphors he built his close and remote dimensions where memory travels among archers, on horseback, to discover the veiled and the invisible.
The men in his paintings are adventurers, explorers, inventors; The women are brides, clothed in brocaded dresses of purple and whispering the stories out of which the magnified legend sees the light, and reality is enlightened by its lamp, so as to appear a fragment of time.
As much as his paintings are spacious and large the story grows longer, more interesting and fascinating, and brings back to mind the memory of Elissa, Adonis, Cadmus, Ashtarouth, Zenobia and others.
May Menassa – Art Critic
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Some artworks from inside the book:
Phoenix – the Mythological bird who, once burnt, reawakens from ashes…
The Knight of St Gilles – Civitas Tripoli
Leda Queen of Sparta, Heavenly Twins, Castor and Pollux (Goddess of Tripoli)
Antigone and the Naval construction in Tripoli
Hammam
Byblos
The Birth of Adonis (Mythology)
The Death of Adonis
Justinian Code – Beirut
The Mirador of Beit Eddin
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