Rida Hus-Hus

Place: Homs

Born: 1939

Death: 2016

Biography:

Using a bright vivid palette, Rida Hus-Hus is known for abstracted city scenes and landscapes that have a harmonious rhythm in their geometric shapes. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus University in 1966. His life drawings and portraits reflected his affection and interest in other people. Through still-life drawing and flower pictures he celebrated the joy of quotidian detail, while his vibrant pastels captured the sweeping landscapes outside of Damasus, and literally painted Syria in a most beautiful light. Yet Rida was also intensely political in the dangerous environment of the Assad dictatorship, and to keep himself sane, and preserve the independence of his art, he lived an extremely modest and cleverly managed life.