Nizar Ali Badr, a Syrian visual artist, paints paintings with sapphire stones (the throne of the god Baal), in which he embodies many humanitarian issues, in addition to allocating part of them to immortalize the “Ugarit” civilization.
The visual artist photographs his paintings after completing them in order to immortalize them later in a special exhibition. Nizar Badr tells Sputnik: “The stones of Saphon are the wonderful stones that have waited for me for ages to represent the suffering of the Syrian people, who gave dearly in order to preserve the soil of Syria.”
He added: “I did not stand by or remain a gray spectator from the first day of the unjust war on my country, and I began shaping my works with soapstones that were born from the womb of the pain that we witnessed and are witnessing until this moment.”
He concluded with “Sputnik” by saying: “I attributed my works and formations with sapphire stones to the historical city of Ugarit, from which the first cuneiform writing emerged to illuminate the path of humanity... and I, in turn, painted the second alphabet on my stones.”
It is noteworthy that the artist Nizar, with his art, contributed to a student demonstration at the University of Turin in Italy, whose title was “Peace for Syria,” in which he raised his work “The Dove of Peace,” which he shaped on a beach on the Syrian coast.
His fame expanded with the painting “The Syrian Exodus” on the famous talent show “Arab’s Got Talent,” the displacement of Syrians and their children fleeing the war.