George Kubresli is an artist born in Damascus, Syria in 1990. Graduated from Damascus University of Fine Arts 2013 majoring in painting. He participated in some group exhibitions in the middle east and Europe.
Through his Academic start his attention to the subject could not defeat his obsession with the material, this artist stood strong beside the material that was neglected by his contemporaries, and with the outbreak of Syrian war in 2011 for him it made the subject stand equal with the material within the academic laboratory.
Due to how the Syrian war was the biggest deforming to the human sensation for the human war of Syria, George considered it a subject for his work until his work today developed to the form that he seeks, when he decided to do the biggest effort towards the material. As for George, when you fully own the material, it makes it more effective to the artist to express his subject, while when caring about the subject more than the material, it distracts the artist and forbids him from expressing the subject in the required way to create an artwork.
The artist's over attention in this era to the subject more than the material was for George considered likewise disrespecting to the subject itself which most artists in his surrounding were pretending to care about, thus George's attention to the material before the subject was mainly to reach a point where his plastic work could accomplish a justified artwork on account to both material and subject wise.
The paintings he produces describes the war misery through the faces, and in his opinion those faces are the best expression to what is inside the human, and it has always been the subject of the face that triggered the desire of this artist since his academic studies of art when he was influenced by the Dutch painter Rembrandt and his wide collection of portraits. Standing in front of the face in regard to George is to look through the tortured soul of the human in this world, the world of contradictions, mistakes, failure and escape, the world of tragedy, the world of our unwarranted existence to start justifying our existence through his depiction and observation of the faces. To draw the human face is to liberate it's soul while suffering in our miserable reality, thus the purpose of art from George's perspective is to liberate the captivated humans from this world.
Relying on the white spaces in the artworks of this artist, symbolizes the peace at the peak of the battles of the human struggle in life, and the peace here that is resembled in those white spaces explains the accomplishment of freedom in the artist himself to reflect it in his own artworks.
