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want to be intimate in our abilene color, my son bob way either the mobile story and those are the stories that i want to sell. my son bob with my family, my, my rod, my team is my music leader in dr. nice him bob way, a new series coming soon on al jazeera. now, with me, for centuries, artist kept a record of the history of humanity through arch. we've learned the way ancient civilizations lived. how wars were fought. her political change took place. societies were oppressed and how they rose to freedom. one of the modern world's longest running unresolved conflicts is the struggle of the palestinian people.

many policy and artists have devoted their lives to portray and convey their reality. one of the most prominent painters, islam and months would born in 1947 in brazil, palestine a year before the establishment of the state of israel. masood studied fine arts in jerusalem, growing up under occupation. his work 1st gained recognition at the age of 26, with the peace camel of hardship portraying an elderly, bent over porter, struggling to carry jerusalem on his back. and ever since his work depicting the policy and struggle and culture has travelled the world from him alone to london to new york. now at the age of 75, has he lost hope peace will ever come. i'm stephanie decker and my love in the occupied westbank. solomon my food is regarded by many as one of the master artist

of the 1st intifada. the 1st palestinian uprising. and it's here in the studio where brushes will paint and even mud portray mister months, who are the vision of the palestinian people there passed their present and their future the burden they carry and their ongoing struggle policy and artist delay my, my food talks college. i filaments, food, thank you so much for talking to al jazeera usually starts the beginning of your career. i want to talk about the present. i want to ask you how you would describe yourself as an artist, how you would describe your body of work so far. to be very difficult. and very interesting, you know, the problem in the occupied so that it's full of the ideas mean full of contradictions. and that's very interesting. so i

consider my work as part of the for the student people life because it reflects that life and reflects the feelings of the people i hope so. so that's my out. i don't know what would have done if there was no occupation or if i was living in switzerland total example in germany. but the life affected me a lot and affected my out. so this is very much also a personal documentation of your personal journey. it is if i'm part of the people and when, when i left a cake, experiences that reflect my own experience of what is changed over the decades in the sense of the ground has changed. politics has changed, situations changed,

has not been reflected in your work as an artist. i think sometimes i feel the difference between one time and the other. but the main thing that happened that the feeling changed. you know, in the seventy's is there was a lot of the 40, there was a lot of hope for, for the future. and people were helping each of the left of the free will. but then when the piano again, when the p, p and a started, all these feelings were lost. people change. i mean the attitude to live the latitude, to their patient attitude, to all everything changed. they were much more, i believe they were much more clean out. they were much more sincere in the

seventy's and they said you could find everywhere, volunteer work in municipalities and universities and to be it's everywhere. and people helping each other, especially in the fist into father, could see that feeling enough that the opposite happened. every one along i'm in fighting for or had on and tell us which is okay, but it's too much in them. and there is no volunteer work at all belonging to the survey. it if you're talking about hope, the people have change in the seventy's. have people lost hope over the decades, have you felt that due to the political situation on the ground and has that been reflected in your work? how, how was that changed? it was that all the hope and on the part of the hope that the us to have

and it in the seventy's and it is but until the recent events, you know, when people saw the demonstrations, the whole world and man, man among the females, living in israel that a lot of the hope among the people and the hope would attend the cell. i didn't do any work off of that, but i'm sure the next 12 will deal with this kind of feeling that you're an artist. what is art for you is? is it a form of release? is it a form of diary? are you trying to give a message? how would you describe what it, what it does for you inside paint? i think all of you have kind of i believe

in us tuition. well, when you don't have the homeland, when you don't have the i mean it can't be a political think. and when people deny your existence on many, many places noticed they, they deny your existence. so the form of saying that we are, we are living here. we have long root give on, i think to the homeless, the themes you use in your work. i do think that we just have a few of them around us here, but there is a very there is like we think it conveys strong emotion. i think looking at your work, it's difficult not to feel like what kind of message like look for example, this one there's a lot of embrace in your work is really is element of men here in

my work. i use the symbol of the woman to reflect some of those things and one of them is that a relation that was in the seventy's. there are no resemble homeland resembles the land punish time is hugging the philistine and people enter on more or less like that. i think to, to, to put the feeling of belonging among the listing people is very important. because without that we have lost every policy, nor should they have to kind of, to, to go to the policy now people to the homeland, to the policy. the problem may be and not to give all his life but or her life. but

some, some of it you use different methods. let's say during the 1st and the father, he started using more mud the land in terms of creating, there's one painting i saw on your instagram called absent presence and you have 2 fingers. and most of them are describe it to me. it's like a cracked mud and then you just have their feet that is still sort of very powerful with and during the 1st intifada, part of that because the idea of the fist and divide that was to point captive in the product to come from. so i have 4 natural materials. i don't been started working with my work for the fall and much like 50 d as intensively. and then i went back to painting in my career and doyle. and

sometimes i have ideas and much fill work in mud. but sometimes i mix the 2 together, i do mud and then i continue to work in a clinic or oil. and depending on what does much convey now or mud, this is very simple. it, i mean it's symbolic for the human beings. it's symbolic for land. it's embolic for palestine that symbolic for if you should live with the mud for that to dry it correct. and it symbolizes also a kind of feeling i have getting old and symbolizes also the political condition he has. and when you go to landscape, geography is fragmented, has a lot of meanings and very intensive meaning over your career

over your life, over the decade. the land pat has started. palestine has been shrinking in terms of settlement expansion. is that, that you have when you have one painting where you see a woman and she's standing with the policy and it's like, it's like a virus landscape. what inspires you? how? how did, how did these ideas come to you? what are you trying to convey? what happened in the recent years of making peace with some other countries and so give not only me about money as soon as it give them a feeling of being around. so i got that idea of the painting from that whole atmosphere that everybody is living. but we are still here and we will go on with that with our forget the man i did,

i want to ask you about that because your art has been embraced in the arab world, your famous year with the same policy and painters. it's easy to buy a painting and put it on your wall. do you feel that the arab world has somehow abandoned the palestinians a little bit at this point in time? and i don't believe that a word and i'm sure of the people everywhere, the support us and the spelling of what the government hit on the 4th by certain pod or make here but. but this is not the, it's not easy. you know, it's not easy for the philistine ent see a way of doing that mentally while playing to bring down docs. i was quite killing people here and occupation and then

they go and be embraced and outcomes to sort of talk to see that. and it picks up his head, but then sure, the the other people in general, they don't feel like they're against you mentioned alone when it comes to being a policy. and is there a loneliness to being an artist? yeah. of course them up if he works on the studio alone. that's how do you know loneliness is part of the production. but was our to, is in the loneliness comes in, you know, not only the artist long, but in life in general. and i think that's why

many people say that my sad, depressing sometimes about because it's not easy to live and such as jewish and let me live here. it's a long listen to this and said, tuition and that reflect that. do you feel you have a responsibility as an artist because of exactly who you are and what you live? you and the rest of the palestinians to reflect? what is incredible powerful emotion that you managed to convey through your work is that you feel is that a burden or is that something that enlightened you when you create affect my my up to feel my on creation. this child job that i put in my, in my work and i work on a painting like one week very that have been sticking lead on trying to do all of

the ships and putting the don't to there is any creativity and that, but the last moment and the last hour when, when i had sit and touches in on the 5th and last i think this creates the poor that is in the painting. and this is the creativity that i put in the panic. i also feel a kind of responsibility as an artist and as a well known artist, i'm among the listing people. i see little responsibility to reflect the life of the people and to health and getting us free. and they tell you it's not easy. it's not a nice feeling to have this obligation sometimes a wanted i want a think that it will be much easier if i am

a teacher or an architect or whatever, you know. but because sometimes the feeling that you have and the building that you have to do, things is immense. and failing the concept. looking at your paintings, your most famous painting that you were saying initially got sold, ended up in the hands of one mcguffey, correct the camel of burden. the painting disappeared in 9697. we started documenting for 15 and up and i thought that would be a good idea to document that we of course we contact. i've contacted that leave in person 9 men in london and the promise to come back to me

one week, something like that. they came back to me and they said there's no painting, it's disappeared and it's 6. it is 6 because one, bob, bon, bonded, fella of conduct him and so we put one on we nearly believe that it was destroyed during that or bombardment to some of your work or at least i suppose how it's been lost, represents regional, the regional history, the regional politics, there's another piece i was reading about, which is called woman breastfeeding. she's breastfeeding and she's holding a gun. that seems to have disappeared as well. yes, we're in the rotan, i think 7879. we started something called museum for the ballistic people and they got a lot of the missions from many out and the whole world and also from palestine up

to stand. they did it at least 3 or 4 paintings for that museum. and also at that time we were part of the union opened up this and been rude. so we used to send them to exhibit them with them with other artistic, cannot this and then the war of it to happened and occupational by route and the book. but many, many philistine and the 2 sons, including the museum for policy, for, for the policy and then people and also the headquarters of the union of policy not, not to so many of the pity that we have destroyed. and the painting that we are not destroyed, they will just fall in and the people took took them away. but also some months before the envision of the road,

they organized an exemption in iran, of our paintings, and they send them. and then when the order happened and the lift by root. and so the paintings are still in iran and you can't get them back. do you know where they are? and the museum, the museum. but they wouldn't listen, you know, that kind of been cryptic thinking. we didn't get them from me. oh, we got them from other people and they're not there anymore. so we left many things in italy. we made several exemptions in italy and most of them are lost. many, many pacino's office lost their work there also we left many were a big exemption was the dance and in 79

. the problem is that we didn't document many of the fan things that were lost here and there and. and besides the manufacturing courses accepted by the, by the authorities back, i guess these readings confiscated your work as well and confiscated from me like 4 or 5 pending from other up to like this or more. there was no rule about what kind of thinking should be configured is until 1981 when they give us this or that about not not allowing us to print in black and white color. so

this kind of thing that have this color in them can you paint without this color? not really is at that time and for a couple of years, most of our paintings will red and red, green, black and white. the concept we were talking about your most famous work, the camel of burden, the concept of burden the concept of hardship. and it's impossible not to look at your paintings, whether it's in real life, whether it's on your instagram feed and not feel the emotion. and the pirate conveys of, from what i see is incredible sadness nostalgia. it's very rare to see real hope and positivity in your work. how difficult has that been for you to live, to live it and obviously it's emotion you you conveys so well to the outside in looking back at my life and the feelings that they have about all this kind

of tuition we live in. it's not only had and it's not only depressing and not only have a good, and it's also humiliating, you know, and him, and lot of people and, and, and i know, you know, because right, and they do a lot of studies about policy and embroidery and about a lot of policy culture. so it's culturally non, we need people and somebody comes from poland and didn't know phone and say there's no people and the take your land terminating. and so the humiliation that is in that most fear, besides all these things and you feel you will have to get rid of that to you. and as an artist, i treated it as

a burden on me to work for that him because it's a very difficult him. so the burden that i feel and the burden that everybody who deals with the scandals and freedom problem of the philistine as the burden heavy and failing when later officer he told us that we are not allowed to print in red in black and white. he applied before that to convince us to bend flowers and nicely and so on. i think what i will bit in the future after we get the word freedom is flow nicely this. do you expect to see that in your lifetime? freedom to tell you the truth,

i think i was born here before efficient for an extra and i don't know the time i believe until now that i will die one day and before we get treated clements, who thank you so much for talking calendar i the news news, news,

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