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Letter From Farouq Yousef
Dear Mohammad, In each new methodical shift, you grant me the words which I did not tell you as if I borrow them from our mutual past. It is a friendshipduring which you’ve been the title of faithfulness. I stretch out my hand to your painting then it is hit by air that takes me…
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Ali Rasheed Message
Ali Rasheed Message Body-related Contours, by this title the Formative Artist Mohammad Jaloos wanted to relate the elementary facts of the human being and his speculativemethod in a celebration where the Artist introduces his visual memory, where the body is a contourand the painting is an imaginary womb, where the artist spreads out roominess which…
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Letter From Ahmad Jared To Aljaloos
My Dear Friend, I was very happy that you showed me part of the works of your new exhibition; it was a pure pleasure Oh the painter of pure pleasure, as the critic Farouq Yousef likes to call you. During our recent conversation, my attention was not drawn to your talk about the body in…
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The painter of the pure pleasure
Mohammad Al-Jaloos: The painter of the pure pleasure By: Farouq Yousef Mohammad Al-Jaloos spends most of his time erasing what he has previously painted. He dismantles shapes that he has imagined in order to infiltrate through its depths which are still soft. Something missing in the painting that continues to drag him towards these depths.…
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Within the confinement of a square
By Ica Wahbeh AMMAN – Mohammad Jaloos’ squares look like the multiplying cells of a zygote that later become life, or like myriad windows, onto the outside world or into the soul. He has been painting them for a while now because they give him “inside peace and balance or form, lines and colour”. They…
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Documenting neighbourhoods
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…
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Memory, Experimentation, Transcendence
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…
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IF HE IS NOT THE GREATEST CONTEMPORARY ARAB ABSTRACT ART MASTER…THEN COUNT HIM AMONG THE 5 BIGGEST ONES!
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…
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More than an introspective voyage into the human condition
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…
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Artist documents Jerusalem through watercolours, photos
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…