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Gadalla's Painting Schools: VI. Dynamism-Crystalism

The Dynamism-Crystalism period began in 1995. However, this period didn’t just happen suddenly; it evolved from the build-up of previous knowledge, experience, skills and continuous hardship throughout the years to confirm its crystalliferous presence with Gadalla. All lines, colors, shapes, lights, shades, texture, perspective, volume, space, music and movement combine deliberately with sophisticated harmony in creating controlled structural forms. Gadalla’s focus has been centered about the suffering human through figures and forms; he does not try to portray reality so much as to reassemble it, but to give his visual art the opportunity to speak for itself. The strength of the physical movement is characterized by energy; having the powerful driving force to produce effective action as it starts and as it stops. It’s a great deal of Gadalla’s freedom, emotions, and impressions to express and create true art paintings “Treasures”, some of which are: The Lovers, Nurture and Passion, Dancing with the Fish, Dancing with the Bird, Sound of Passion, Sound of Hope, Sound of Soul, Letter to the world, Anti-Violence, Pro-Peace, Peace Hunter, No War, Midnight Moon, Moonless Night, Scream for Help, Outside the Storm, Break Out, Lock Up, Break Up, Coming through, Coming Back, The Survivors, Left Alone, Back to Back, The Hard Separation, and The Compassionate Bird Series.

...Gadalla impressed me with his character and his many talents. The art work he has been showing is insightful; showing oppression and the beauty of a culture foreign to our own. His work has become an asset and in time will be affecting the art community nationwide; he is a gift to the United States of America...

Artist Stephen M. Teuscher, Fables Fine Art Gallery (1995)

...Gadalla’s painting ‘Embracing the Moon’ is The Love Mosaic; a mesmerizing Universe of a couple of moons & a zillion stars dancing in an everlasting night of love...

Dr. Youssef T. AL-sheikh, visual scientist

...grand dad is very well at art, I love him when he draws in front of me while I am around him and makes my heart happy...he draws every day, every minute, all the time paints the way I like in every way...the colors are so fantastic; it looks so good when he mixes colors...the lights are a little bit dark and a little bit light...drawings of persons are just so well...the legs are not there and the hands look like ours, but our hands are not that big, and the head is new...the lines are perfect; they never go the wrong direction, and they show the good will of a person...I will not give up on grand dad...I like him when he makes sounds with the brush...when grand dad draws it is so special; he is so incredible...I just cannot let go of it; when I see the brush painting, I feel as I want to paint...I don’t find anything wrong...his paints look clean like the moon!

Farah, Gadalla’s 5 years old grand daughter

 

Embracing the Moon "The Love Mosaic"

 

The Compassionate Bird


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