A face is the storehouse of all human emotions, says the Lebanese artist and educator Dima Raad.
Raad, who heads the fine arts department at the Lebanese University’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture, has just displayed more than 20 large-scale paintings in an exhibition called “Faces in a Row”, which ran from March 17 until April 9, in Beirut.
In a recent interview with Al-Fanar Media, Raad talked about how the expressive power of the human face came to occupy a central place in her own art. The conversation also ranged over topics including her ideas about the makings of a true artist, and what she has learned from her years teaching art at the Lebanese University.