MY ART LIFE

Between concept and completion

Art is a sensory perception of the inner life projected onto a blank surface - Raed Selman


Born to paint human beings

I'm Raed Selman, known for my images of agitating, intriguing assemblies and kaleidoscopically formed groups of people. My extraordinarily receptive and sensitive nature brings me into surprisingly emotional conditions. With striking accuracy my knows how to formulate sensitive situations, using a self-invented alphabet and a fiery palette. The result is a boundless and contagious game of colours and lines; an incomparable sensation of colours and vivid layers of acrylics. Seeing my work makes people smile, mainly because I'm an artist who exposes himself in his paintings.
Certainly I agrees…“Well, every individual wants to show and expose himself, wants to be naked, but still they wear clothes. I paint myself.” And...“I was born to be a visual artist. I was born to be an artist and paint human beings.”

The City

Acryl on canvas 270x150cm

"collection SCARLET Telecom Lelystad"

S e l m a n

How much more historical wealth can a region have than when it encompasses one of the earliest roots of many current civilizations? And, how much knowledge would a newborn of this ‘consecrated’ ground already have raked in before he has even started acquiring knowledge? Anybody born in the East-Lebanese town of Baalbeck, or maybe this applies to Lebanon entirely, must be heavily loaded by its culture, and either evolves with it, or, succumbs to it.