Too much love (beauty) will kill you, says Freddy Mercury in a song... and I don't want to risk it! That's why I only showed a little bit of the Dobrogea exhibition in the blog two days ago, I didn't risk putting everything I captured from Ammar Alnahhas' paintings.
Those who want to see more about this Syrian painter who now lives and works in Romania, or maybe just want to listen to Freddy Mercury's song, can find it all here: The sunny South, the permanent attraction for painters
Again the colorful paintings of the lands, animals, and flowers of Dobrogea, the region between the waters of the Danube River and the Black Sea in Romania and Bulgaria.
I don't know if Ammar also painted in Dobrogea in Bulgaria but it seems to be so and the proof I think is in this painting where the purple color represents, for sure, the lavender fields that are much more common in Bulgarian landscapes.
It's a light-filled exhibition and although it's winter, the room seems full of sunshine.
Now we look at a few more paintings and discover the painter's favorites from what Dobrudja has to offer.
The donkey
The only domestic animal in these paintings is the donkey. In Dobrogea, donkeys are the most used domestic animals.
Horses
Horses live free in the Danube Delta. Once there were horses used by the inhabitants for traction but now they have been abandoned and live wild and free.
In this last painting, the horse appears to be one that fishermen still use because it has a blanket on its back.
Fishermen
The first occupation of people in Dobrogea is fishing. Obviously, this must be the main theme of Ammar's paintings.
You may have noticed that people do not appear in these paintings and yet their presence is felt, their presence is included. The boats, the fish, and the houses in fishing villages.
What a beauty!
Nature and birds... one bird, the blackbird!
The white bird is...the blackbird! If you look closely, you'll see this fish-like bird in many colors, never black.
I hope you saw the birds in the pictures above...
Blackbird
Landscape
The more I look at the paintings the more I like them. I remember a few years ago when I saw Ammar's work for the first time, I didn't like it.
I can call this the exposure effect. Perhaps now that I have seen so many paintings in one place I have seen their beauty!
It's over... but I can't tear myself away from the white walls full of colorful paintings and the spirit of Dobrogea, southern Romania, the Danube Delta, and the Black Sea!
Only the painter is missing...
I hope you enjoyed it!