Art becomes a noble message when the artist is devoted to bringing out the best in humanity and one’s culture. Saudi artist Abdul Aziz Mehdi employs energy and passion to convey his love for heritage and the Arabic culture. His kinetic paintings and sculptures on Asir’s culture and heritage tell a story of a man embracing his culture.
He still remembers his beginning in school. “It was an important source of creativity. My teacher, artist Zuhair Hassan, discovered my passion to paint and draw the nature,” he told Arab News. He pursued his interest in art during high school supported by his school’s headmaster Sharaf Al-Shamrani, who “gave me space and time to work on my sculptures.”
While he was showing his artistic work in Miftaha fine village, he met fine artist Dia’ Aziz and learned more about impressionist art style, and varied forms of sculptures.
His passion continued during college as he chose to study art education, which he says, helped shape his artistic identity and showed him his direction. His art work tends to portray movement such as running horses, sea waves and any moment that expresses the moving nature.
For Mehdi, the color is the most important component in a painting. “This is the style I like, and I train my students to focus on mixing colors and employ them in life and paintings,” he said. “The clean colors are the base of the paintings’ creativity particularly nature’s colors.” Mehdi heads the art department at the Saudi Society of Fine Arts in Abha.
He loves oil paints and likes degrees of purple, orange and warm colors of the desert. “Each one of my paintings expresses me, and conveys messages about human’s accomplishments,” he said.
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Abdul Aziz Mehdi: A conceptual artist representing the love of heritage
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