Interviews



Participated in the first exhibitions of "collective" in the Municipal Palace in Jezzine in 1990 



and went from then to Beirut to set up exhibitions in 1993 and was met popular in the gallery 


set up by the Chamber of glass in the Ministry of Tourism in the Hamra area and was painted 


then portraits and drawings classic, but as said Ayoub of the Republic "does not reflect 


reality and lacking imagination and creativity" and characterizing them for the art moderne and 


the symbolisme that prevails on the themes of his paintings present. says Ayoub: "The turning 


point in my career and my credit the symbolisme instead of the classique is my trip to America 


in 1999 and the establishment of several shows there, identified which more closely to the 


taste "gourmet" and lovers of art there, and I saw that most of them were passionate about Van 


Gogh and contrary to what is believed the majority, the Van Gogh was popular in his paintings 


that symbolize nature, but for his paintings Impressionism which contains the lines is specific 


to people and remains a mystery raises the curiosity of the viewer to it, and I said to myself, 


if we want to portray a landscape there is the camera to meet the need, but creativity and 


determine the Theme of the panel and the content of a mysterious, sometimes is the ultimate 


goal of fine art. " and follow the Ayoub: "And here I decided to took a wrong himself by without 


imitating anyone and decided to There are topics that do not require us to "philosophizing," 


can be addressed to it and began to use the three-dimensional technique and this is what 


Sicherha us later in his paintings, which display in Paris. " Add Ayoub: "I used the colors dirt 


that give the decor of homes laced colors of brown, white, beige and come to my paintings to 


give an atmosphere of joy on the colors," rolling stock "Since we are no Lebanese can not 


impose the" fashion "or the Trend appointed especially with regard to colors, furnishings, 


comes to my paintings to impose colors and vitality of the colors imposed by the Vehiculateur 


de mode ", and commends Ayoub on the taste of Lebanon and says," people become taste of art 


over and over and after they decorate the walls in order to cover the area, regardless of the 


idea of painting and their meanings have become interested in now is ideas new and find them 


watching an artist who has not exhausted his ideas. " to return to the stage of Paris says 


Ayoub: "I went to Paris in 2008 and lived are at first in the Foyer franco libanais and the 


second in the office du tourisme a few meters from the Palace of Alelisah and without 


exaggeration, and during the period of Fair said the French that my paintings displayed was 


illuminated Street Saint honore colors wonderful. in the next year and after the demand 


experienced by the first exhibition I went back to Paris to introduce this time in the 


Municipal Palace Hotel de ville on the occasion of festival of Saint Maron and the invitation 


of the Lebanese community and later moved paintings displayed to the area the Marais famous 


Altdoarh fourth offered near the home of Victor Hugo. " and here he tells Ayoub a funny story 


about art critic French and professor in the art in the French universities: "Having stayed a 


long time in front of one of my paintings exclamation point of the technique used by the 


disarmament of his glasses and became groping painting to make sure of the bumps as it deems 


came near him and I explained to him that I do not use colors traditionally I use one color and 


then Ozalh for painting and enter the details, "like a tree or a man, etc. ..." concludes Ayoub 


said: "In one of my interviews television asked me provided if you think that the painting are 


for decoration only, I said yes like a diamond expensive that some deposited in the bank safe 


it is for decoration at the base and the only critics are the ones who raise the value of the 


painting. They who see what is behind the cloth. Blohata, as I head to the general public who 


does not Philosophizes things and tend to spontaneous and the daily reality in the drawing away 


for add-ons and the Collage and the like. And I will express my pen and color. to see the 


photos you can visit the distinctive colors of the Republic on the site www. @ aljoumhouria. 


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