Thamer Dawood. Immersion in the arts, away from the limelight


For over two decades, Thamer Dawood practiced the art of painting, achieving for himself, many works of arts giving the impression in the ability and capability of this artist, by engaging in the areas of painting, with deep understanding of colors and lines, and also his knowledge of the history of general art, particularly contemporary Iraqi plastic modern art. In the spheres of painting, the artist dedicated creative effort, which deserves mention, and praise and appreciation of the good achievement.
I have been acquainted with most of his experiences in the field of painting, and I saw him divergent and variable with complete clarity, as if playing experience to achieve the highest degree of self-satisfaction and comfort.

Neither the fixed form lures him, nor the colors or the ways of performing them decide his finger prints; but it is the overall character to choose the two materials or forms or the language of discourse which he cherishes. Artist Thamer Dawood has good practice in the academic art performance governed by visible controls and who is subject to the rules of the outlook and the deflections of the shades and lights and the painting of the details and factions etc. but today, he demonstrates to us another colorful experiment quite at variance to what is visible.

The Artist could steer the compass of understanding to head in his aesthetic sailing to the deep spiritual destinations and the non–alphabetical language to uncover his inner secrets and express His Hypertensive sense of the existence and the universe as if art for him was like prayers and hymns, thus he came to us polite, volatile and above all needs. We see colors intermingle to form squares in harmony with a musical norm, predominated by an inner secret of the artist,

We view a beloved harmony in the form, which never followed the behests of any artists, because the artist due to his understanding of the general history of arts tried to work at an area of art far removed from others. He cut for himself his unique and distinct style that was inherent in his wariness to fall into the traps of imitation.

Thus his paintings foretold an exquisite ability for the performance of color, the innovation of form and the contentelization of the subjects with conscientious and spiritual constructions, The big demand in art is the right use of the potential of the raw materials because they represent the medium which conveys the artist’s ideas, whims, wishes, imagination and his pondering.

Consequently it composes the suitable form, which offers the recipient a kind of a visual challenge by which he imitates no one. As we know form is the incubator of ideas. No clever idea can exist without an obsessive breathtaking form.
Thamer Dawood has grabbed all the constituents of building the new painting, with a clever and wary view so that his summaries seem a search for a new good thing. The devotion of the artist to his work, has truly assured him of the favorable style with modernistic vision, which can be added to the promising artistic experiments within the area of the contemporary Iraqi plastic arts scenery. It encompasses truthfulness in performance and truthfulness in comprehension. In view of the Artist’s special sense of the art, the artist can live with it daily more than he does with his family. The sum total of his artistic experiment never parts with deep sense of closeness to the arts and the distinguished artist in Iraq. The friends of artist Thamer Dawood also know that he is a professional of silkscreen printing in a manually and artistic way. Many Iraqi artists have done posters and streamers at shop. Some of them have accomplished special works of art including artist Ismail Fattah al-Turk, artist Dhiya Al-Azzawi, artist Rafie Al- Nassiri, Ali Taleb, Khudhair Alshukerji and others from our creative artists. The division of the artist’s efforts in the fields of design, printing and painting made him an all encompassing artist fully aware of the hidden aspects of the plastic art.

The new painting, which he draws, is only thieving on time, because time is full to the brim and the hours of the day in its usual form does not permit the production of all this creativeness. I think that the usual time needs additional hours. This is the continuous effort and this is the creativeness, which is not curtailed by boundaries.
 

Salah Abbas