{"id":2251,"name":"","email":"","language_id":1,"permalink":"issam-al-said","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":47,"url_1":"http://www.issam-el-said.co.uk/","twitter":null,"category_id":28,"date_of_birth":"1938-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00","place_of_birth":null,"country_of_birth":null,"place_of_residence":null,"country_of_residence":null,"cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"Issam","lastname":"Al Said","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"Issam Al Said","date_of_death":"1988-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","cached_name_asc":"Al Said, Issam","stream_count_app":18,"gender":"other","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/020/265/large/al_said__issam.jpg?1389186743","poster_credits":null,"media_count":1,"items_count":1,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\"Art is to serve a purpose and allow people to develop their own creative instincts from it.  We have become far removed from such ideas.  In the old days, art began as a craft; it was used towards a given end.  This is not the case today.  Take the architect for example, he is a master-builder of yesterday, but he has lost touch with his basic tools: earth, wood, brick, concrete.  Things have become too abstract; so abstract that we can no longer relate to them on a practical level.\" - Issam Al Said\r\n\r\nAs architect, graphic artist, designer and painter, the practice of Iraqi artist Issam Al Said (1938 - 1988) exemplifies an attempt of reconciliation, one where belief, traditional crafts and modern aesthetics seek a common ground.  In his paintings we recognize aspects of spirituality as well as the mathematical principles that lay at the base of traditional Islamic non-figurative art. \r\n\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"*\"Art is to serve a purpose and allow people to develop their own creative instincts from it.  We have become far removed from such ideas.  In the old days, art began as a craft; it was used towards a given end.  This is not the case today.  Take the architect for example, he is a master-builder of yesterday, but he has lost touch with his basic tools: earth, wood, brick, concrete.  Things have become too abstract; so abstract that we can no longer relate to them on a practical level.\"* - Issam Al Said\r\n\r\nAls architect, graficus, ontwerper en schilder tracht de Iraakse kunstenaar  Issam Al Said (°1938 - †1988) een praktijk te onderhouden waarbij hij zijn geloof, traditionele ambachten en een moderne esthetiek met elkaar probeert te verzoenen. In zijn schilderijen zien we de kenmerken van spiritualiteit en de mathematische principes die aan de grondslag liggen van  de traditionele islamitische non-figuratieve kunst.\r\n\r\n[Meer](http://www.issam-el-said.co.uk/)"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"Iraq","place":"Baghdad","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":"Geboren in","fr":"Né à"}}]}