Masterpieces – The History of a Period

Behold the Man! (73 x 61 cm – 1994)

This is a homage to the Lebanese hero Youssef Bey Karam, a work executed to serve as an illustration for the cover of a book. In the middle of it there is a turning circle in the wake of which are shining suns, while a little to the right of the center Youssef Karam is shown on his steed. All this is happening in the cosmos, the work having no bounds or frontiers. In the foreground a battle is raging, so one sees horses, clashing swords, and warriors with their standards. All is violent movement below, while the sky if filled with human beings, the noble souls in Paradise, with bright touches giving force to the conception and the expression.

A human trail of bluish smoke rises up to Paradise.