Baseem Rayyes is a Syrian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1970. He is a painter whose flesh, bones and blood are from the living Syrian history.
The human’s face on a canvas looks quiet and still when it is actually filled with thousands of thoughts and emotions. Baseem grasps these emotions and turns them into lines, shapes, colors and interconnected symbols and places them on the surface of the portrait which then looks alive and animated, revealing the endless possibilities on the inside.
Baseem does not portray his art through the surface or the outside, he portrays it from within, which is filled with life’s movements. He looks at everything around with an eye of a mere child. Diving deep within through every layer and detail he listens to this child with passion and applies the things he has heard and felt on the outer surface so that quiet and still images come to life.
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