Painting is not representation but revelation.
Through line, color, and silence, abstraction becomes a language in which memory, humanity, and the visible world quietly converge.
About my art
The defining characteristic of my earlier works is abstraction, though not exclusively so, since the relationship with the visible world has never been absent or severed, even when reduced to visual impressions or simple evocative signs.
The work of art is a plastic prototype that organizes relationships between things and recreates them, not in order to represent or reproduce them according to fixed data, but to express them through legible signs.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is The Stories Book about?
Statement by
Dr. Mahmoud Amhaz
The pictorial work is, in principle, addressed to the eye which, from the very moment it encounters it, becomes immersed in the vibrations of color and the interweaving of lines. The eye perceives within it what resembles letters or vague forms of writing. Images and evocative shapes enter the pictorial field, enriching it without causing the text to lose its structure or its language.
When will The Stories Book be released?
Testimonial by
The Favorite of May Gebran and Nassim Khoury
Mystery inhabits the work of Mahmoud Amhaz. His colorful expression delights both the eye and the heart; for as long as one can remember, he painted nostalgic talismans and amulets of happiness sealed within the whirlwind of war-torn Beirut.
Are signed copies available?
Testimonial by
Dr. Nassim Khoury
(1990, translated from Arabic)
Whoever contemplates the works of the artist Mahmoud Amhaz moves, at first glance, toward what may seem like abstraction. Yet it is a transparent abstraction distinguished by its clarity. He does not share this result with us until after we have shed our concepts, our measures, our titles, and our prior judgments about what lies outside and what lies within. Imitation, acquired images, reflections, functionality, and superficial visual satisfaction, all of these are shattered forms transcended by Mahmoud Amhaz’s canvases.