ABOUT GEORGE HAIDAR
PAINTING EMOTIONS: LEAVING MY MARK THROUGH ART
“I am a very sensitive man. I react very quickly to any emotion around me. It can be beauty or it can be for example an incident or event. Bushfire for example! I like to leave my mark in my life for the people that come after me. Like there is some people that right history, like an author, but I do It in painting. I like to put my statement into the painting. This is why my painting is unique as it has my emotions into each and every one.
I am painting my emotions.
In my opinion an artist has a mission to be a mirror of what is happening around him in the world. One day when your gone what will you leave behind? My legacy is when people look at me and my paintings they will understand the emotions I felt at the time. So they can read history”.
George Haidar
BORN IN 1952, GEORGE’S FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH PAINTING BEGAN AT SCHOOL IN A SMALL VILLAGE OVERSEAS. HIS TALENT WAS DISCOVERED AT THE AGE OF 15 BY HIS ART TEACHER WHO WAS BLOWN AWAY BY GEORGE’S WORK. HE ENCOURAGED GEORGE TO FURTHER HIS SKILLS AND PASSION FOR PAINTING AND ADVISED IF HE DID SO HE WOULD BECOME A SUCCESSFUL AND RENOWNED ARTIST. GEORGE HAS CONTINUED TO CREATE STUNNING ARTWORK WHICH INSPIRES ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
GEORGE FOLLOWED HIS ASPIRATION AND IN 1977 HE BROUGHT HIS WORK TO AUSTRALIA.
GEORGE HAD GROWN AS AN ARTIST AND WAS NOT LIMITED TO ONE STYLE OF PAINTING BUT A VAST MAJORITY OF STYLES.
GEORGE’S PAINTINGS INCLUDE MANY STYLES AND SUBJECTS SUCH AS ARCHITECTURE, BALLET, CLASSICISM, PORTRAITURE, MODELS, STILL LIFE, EXPRESSIONISM AND IMPRESSIONISM.
IN A CAREER SPANNING SOME FORTY-ONE YEARS, HE HAS EXHIBITED AT MOST OF AUSTRALIA’S STATES AND BEST VENUES INCLUDING VICTORIAN ARTIST SOCIETY, CAMBERWELL ART SHOW, THE NATIONAL ART GALLERY OF VICTORIA AND MELBOURNE EXHIBITION CENTRE; ALONG WITH MORE THAN FIFTY SOLO EXHIBITIONS IN VARIED LOCATIONS AND SUBURBS. AMONG THESE SOLO EXHIBITS IS THE MOST WELL KNOWN EXHIBITION AT CHADSTONE SHOPPING CENTRE LOCATED DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF MYER FOUNTAIN WHICH HAS CONTRIBUTED MUCH BEAUTY AND EMOTION TO THE DIVERSE CULTURE OF CHADSTONE FOR THE PAST SEVEN YEARS.
GEORGE HAIDAR REINVENTS HIMSELF PERIODICALLY WITH GROUND BREAKING, UNPREDICTABLE, SOMETIMES PROVOCATIVE, MOST TIMES FASCINATING, EPIPHANIES AND IDEAS.
GEORGE HAS A RARE ABILITY TO TRANSLATE WITH EMOTIONS HIS CREATIVE IDEAS FROM HIS IMAGINATION TO CANVAS, THANKS TO SKILLS ONLY GRANTED TO THOSE WILLING TO SUBMIT TO PUNISHING YET EXHILARATING LABOUR. HAVING AN EMPTY CANVAS GEORGE CAN HARDLY WAIT TO ACTUALLY ENTER INTO IT AND TO CREATE SOMETHING WHICH IS ALMOST TANGIBLE, TO CREATE AN ILLUSION, TO EXPRESS AN EMOTION AND SAY WHAT HE WANTS TO SAY.
HE VENTS ALL HIS FRUSTRATIONS ONTO THE CANVAS WHICH IN RETURN GIVES HIM A RESULT THAT IS BEYOND HIS EXPECTATIONS AND THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE VIEWERS AND ATTENDANTS THAT WATCH IN AMAZEMENT.