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d that obeys his ideas and releases them into existence. No matter how big and inspiring
the ideas are, they have no value without a performative ability in the art of drawing that enables
physical and visual achievement.
There are many types of drawing starting from the academic study in which the artist must pass to
get acquainted with the vocabulary of nature and acquire the skill in expressing it visually in order
to assess his performing experience on which he will rely in his creative experience. The history
of art attests that even the most artists tending to abstraction and experimentation possessed
academic abilities and skills in a realistic expression of the vocabulary of nature, which gave them
the ways of understanding to summarize, modify and abstract them. Drawing is the most effective
way in teaching arts, developing sensitivity towards visuals, sharpening observation, stimulating
memory, developing perception, and training in launching visual imagination.
The drawing is presented in the form of preparatory studies that serve as a carrier of the idea
and the closest way to receive the artist's initial confusion in searching for the most appropriate
representation, tracing it, and transferring it into existence through many visual possibilities that
the artist concludes for one of them and chooses to move from the preparatory workspace to the
full artwork space: painting, sculpting or engraving. So the drawing here serves as a preparatory
basis for other works in which the artist exercises a greater compositive experience and explores
the expressive possibilities of the drawn vocabulary. The drawing may be presented in the form
of "sketches", which are drawings that are characterized by quickness, summarization, capturing
positions, visual tracing of living moving elements, or rapid successive expression of visuals for
familiarity. It is training on the strength of observation and the ability to choose the least number
of lines expressing what is going on in the field of direct confrontation of vocabulary and the ability
to understand the laws of nature. However, there is another level in reaching the drawing to be
an independent work of art in itself, which will be clearly presented by Nawar's experience in the
art of drawing.
Nawar the Painter
For Nawar, the art of painting represents the key to his entire creative experience, and if we want
a clearer view of understanding Nawar's artworks and his ways of composing his forms, it is im-
portant to contemplate his experience in drawing; it reveals his creative philosophy in his various
artistic fields. We can explore how line sprouts and rushes, how mass is formed and split, how
the energy of forms transmits its visual and sensory effects, and how conditions of existence are
embodied in the purest means of expression. The artist possesses in his drawing artworks the
sharpness and uniqueness of vision, the independence of mass overwhelmed by emotion, the
purity of the line, sharpness, and the clarity of its paths even when it is engaged in articulating
points with the mass, paving it, or making its tension in contact with it, the transition from jet black
to the glow of white, the transition from sharp geometric sequences to figurative lines of varying
sensitivity. They are all keys to the vision presented by Nawar's artworks in the art of drawing.
The artist found in the art of drawing the sufficient ability to hold meanings and form percep-
tions. He is one of the rare artists who presented the art of drawing as an independent creative
case and through several experiences throughout his artistic journey, starting with his graduation
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the ideas are, they have no value without a performative ability in the art of drawing that enables
physical and visual achievement.
There are many types of drawing starting from the academic study in which the artist must pass to
get acquainted with the vocabulary of nature and acquire the skill in expressing it visually in order
to assess his performing experience on which he will rely in his creative experience. The history
of art attests that even the most artists tending to abstraction and experimentation possessed
academic abilities and skills in a realistic expression of the vocabulary of nature, which gave them
the ways of understanding to summarize, modify and abstract them. Drawing is the most effective
way in teaching arts, developing sensitivity towards visuals, sharpening observation, stimulating
memory, developing perception, and training in launching visual imagination.
The drawing is presented in the form of preparatory studies that serve as a carrier of the idea
and the closest way to receive the artist's initial confusion in searching for the most appropriate
representation, tracing it, and transferring it into existence through many visual possibilities that
the artist concludes for one of them and chooses to move from the preparatory workspace to the
full artwork space: painting, sculpting or engraving. So the drawing here serves as a preparatory
basis for other works in which the artist exercises a greater compositive experience and explores
the expressive possibilities of the drawn vocabulary. The drawing may be presented in the form
of "sketches", which are drawings that are characterized by quickness, summarization, capturing
positions, visual tracing of living moving elements, or rapid successive expression of visuals for
familiarity. It is training on the strength of observation and the ability to choose the least number
of lines expressing what is going on in the field of direct confrontation of vocabulary and the ability
to understand the laws of nature. However, there is another level in reaching the drawing to be
an independent work of art in itself, which will be clearly presented by Nawar's experience in the
art of drawing.
Nawar the Painter
For Nawar, the art of painting represents the key to his entire creative experience, and if we want
a clearer view of understanding Nawar's artworks and his ways of composing his forms, it is im-
portant to contemplate his experience in drawing; it reveals his creative philosophy in his various
artistic fields. We can explore how line sprouts and rushes, how mass is formed and split, how
the energy of forms transmits its visual and sensory effects, and how conditions of existence are
embodied in the purest means of expression. The artist possesses in his drawing artworks the
sharpness and uniqueness of vision, the independence of mass overwhelmed by emotion, the
purity of the line, sharpness, and the clarity of its paths even when it is engaged in articulating
points with the mass, paving it, or making its tension in contact with it, the transition from jet black
to the glow of white, the transition from sharp geometric sequences to figurative lines of varying
sensitivity. They are all keys to the vision presented by Nawar's artworks in the art of drawing.
The artist found in the art of drawing the sufficient ability to hold meanings and form percep-
tions. He is one of the rare artists who presented the art of drawing as an independent creative
case and through several experiences throughout his artistic journey, starting with his graduation
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