By Ica Wahbeh AMMAN – Documenting towns for posterity is normally the job of ethnographers, historians, archaeologists or maybe photographers. The reason they do it is to restore history and recreate lifestyles, immortalise times or secure information for future generations. Painter Mohammad Jaloos had that and other reasons in mind when he took it upon himself…

by Mohammed Abu Zreiq Palestinian artist, Mohammed Jaloos’ artistic compulsion is to employ his skills as weapon and viewer as target. Some of these works may not necessarily represent the core of his art, but most of them are based on pure artistic vision. This diversity creates an opportunity to coax the best out of…

http://www.worldartcelebritiesjournal4.netfirms.com/mohammad__al__jaloos.htm IF HE IS NOT THE GREATEST CONTEMPORARY ARAB ABSTRACT ART MASTER…THEN COUNT HIM AMONG THE 5 BIGGEST ONES! By Maximillien de La Croix de Lafayette, Berlin, Germany To begin with, I would feel better if I confess this :” Al Jaloos is fifty times better than me and 500 times better than any abstract…

By Ica Wahbeh AMMAN — To know somebody, understand and “read” his feelings, one looks at the face, this most expressive part of the human anatomy. This is what Jordanian artist Mohammad Al Jaloos believes and what made him come back to the “interesting journey” of exploring faces. The “Abstract anguish” series, on display at the…

Arabia Ya Biyoot El Quds By Mohammad Jaloos Published by The National Publishing House 2003 Pp.96 JD 10 It is believed that no other city in the world has been documented, studied or read like Jerusalem.   Many works of art have been done about Jerusalem, and many artists have tried to grasp the inner beauty…

By Hada Sarhan AMMAN ‘Winning the prize cannot be personified; it is a victory for all local artists,’ Jaloos told the Jordan Times The Artist, who studied painting at Jordan Institute for Fine Arts between 1979-81, added that the significance of the prize was receiving recognition from such a notable institution. ‘The prize has given me…

By Hada Sarhan AMMAN – The old streets of Jerusalem and Salt, as well as the concept of human suffering, have been sources of inspiration to Palestinian artist Mohammed Jaloos in his expressive exhibition at his Shmeisani Jaloos studio. Jaloos’ 300 works on permanent display are grouped into two sets according to the style of paintings:…

THE PAINTINGS OF Mohammad al Jaloos may be abstract, but they give clear and concrete expression for his passion for love and women. ‘Love is key to setting the artist’s soul free and giving it full rein to touch the sky says Jaloos. ‘This fresh love does not recognize exhaustion or peace and transports the…

By Munther Hamdan Star Staff Writer The abstract works of the Jordanian artist Mohammad Al Jaloos, currently displayed at Baladna Art Gallery , have much to say about human suffering and a complex reality. They are moments of agitation, sadness and love mixed all together to produce a complicated structure. The exhibition was opened under…

By Nellie Lama Special to the Jordan Times   AMMAN – The present exhibition in the Alia Gallery is Mohammad Jalous’ sixth attempt to “find the potential energy that lies within the forms of nature that are within us and that are dispersed as details that create abstractions.” With these words Mohammad Jalous presents his tumultuous…