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Jordanian uses silicone to sculpt works of art
By Dana Zyadat, Jordan News
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AMMAN — When Mahmoud Al-Atiyyat decided to change his major from accounting to fine arts after three and half years in college, he said that he had no worries regarding how his family would react. اضافة اعلان
“I was born in a family that is into art. My mother used to give me paper and colors and encourage me to draw, and I just enjoyed that and spent hours and hours drawing.”
Artist Mahmoud Al-Atiyyat is pictured in this undated photo. (Photos: Handouts from Mahmoud Al-Atiyyat)
He went on to not only impress his mentors with his graduation project two years ago, but he also utilized a new medium to create silicon sculptures.
Atiyyat said that he chose sculpture because “it expresses my imagination and soul better than any other form of art.”
His final project at university was titled, “a child aged 70,” which was a sculpture of a sleeping old man with an innocent childish face that represented the return to childhood that comes with age.
Atiyyat said that the message behind the old man with an angelic face was to “treat the elderly in a better way.”
A photo collection of silicone sculptures created by Jordanian artist Mahmoud Al-Atiyyat. (Photos: Handouts from Mahmoud Al-Atiyyat)
“The professor at university loved it so much that they shared an image of it on their social media pages,” he told Jordan News, in a recent interview.
Using silicon as a medium is the artist’s signature. Atiyyat explained that the technique belongs to the post-realism movement, and is characterized by the ability it gives the sculptor to go deeper into details and create a more realistic piece of art. He plans to eventually take his technique to filmmaking, he said.
Atiyyat has also used his skills to shape human organs from silicon to help people, with assistance from his professor, Mohammad Subuh.
For example, he created a synthetic finger for a 24-year-old young man who had his finger amputated in an accident.
A photo collection of silicone sculptures created by Jordanian artist Mahmoud Al-Atiyyat. (Photos: Handouts from Mahmoud Al-Atiyyat)
Atiyyat, who also has a day job, still holds solo exhibitions and takes part in collective exhibitions. He said that such activities take him out of his comfort zone. However, he is still unsatisfied with the level of public interest in sculpture in this part of the world.
“People should know that this art improves our appreciation of beauty and drives us to learn more about life.”
The dream is to see his art form spread and be used as an expression of beauty as well as a way to help people, he said.
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“I was born in a family that is into art. My mother used to give me paper and colors and encourage me to draw, and I just enjoyed that and spent hours and hours drawing.”
Artist Mahmoud Al-Atiyyat is pictured in this undated photo. (Photos: Handouts from Mahmoud Al-Atiyyat)
He went on to not only impress his mentors with his graduation project two years ago, but he also utilized a new medium to create silicon sculptures.
Atiyyat said that he chose sculpture because “it expresses my imagination and soul better than any other form of art.”
His final project at university was titled, “a child aged 70,” which was a sculpture of a sleeping old man with an innocent childish face that represented the return to childhood that comes with age.
Atiyyat said that the message behind the old man with an angelic face was to “treat the elderly in a better way.”
A photo collection of silicone sculptures created by Jordanian artist Mahmoud Al-Atiyyat. (Photos: Handouts from Mahmoud Al-Atiyyat)
“The professor at university loved it so much that they shared an image of it on their social media pages,” he told Jordan News, in a recent interview.
Using silicon as a medium is the artist’s signature. Atiyyat explained that the technique belongs to the post-realism movement, and is characterized by the ability it gives the sculptor to go deeper into details and create a more realistic piece of art. He plans to eventually take his technique to filmmaking, he said.
Atiyyat has also used his skills to shape human organs from silicon to help people, with assistance from his professor, Mohammad Subuh.
For example, he created a synthetic finger for a 24-year-old young man who had his finger amputated in an accident.
A photo collection of silicone sculptures created by Jordanian artist Mahmoud Al-Atiyyat. (Photos: Handouts from Mahmoud Al-Atiyyat)
Atiyyat, who also has a day job, still holds solo exhibitions and takes part in collective exhibitions. He said that such activities take him out of his comfort zone. However, he is still unsatisfied with the level of public interest in sculpture in this part of the world.
“People should know that this art improves our appreciation of beauty and drives us to learn more about life.”
The dream is to see his art form spread and be used as an expression of beauty as well as a way to help people, he said.
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