ChehadeAssaad's profile picture. When visual knowledge transforms, mysteriously, into cognition, the means of embodying it will not be of great importance. The important  is to express yourself

A. Chehade

@ChehadeAssaad

When visual knowledge transforms, mysteriously, into cognition, the means of embodying it will not be of great importance. The important is to express yourself

Responding to urgent needs during crises does not require philosophy, but actions that lead people towards salvation. -Mytho-auto-portrait, 2024. Pencil on paper.

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. Responding to urgent needs during crises does not require philosophy, but actions that lead people towards salvation.

-Mytho-auto-portrait, 2024. Pencil on paper.

I did not choose solitude out of fear of others, but to establish a true relationship with them. We must understand that absence is the purest path to a more splendid presence. - Watercolor tribute to a tube of oil color, 2005.

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. I did not choose solitude out of fear of others, but to establish a true relationship with them. We must understand that absence is the purest path to a more splendid presence.

- Watercolor tribute to a tube of oil color, 2005.

“Birth and death are only two overwhelming moments of perpetual awakening.” Laszlo Krasznahorkai -Instability of elsewhere. 2019. Acrylic on canvas. 61X50 cm.

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. “Birth and death are only two overwhelming moments of perpetual awakening.” 
Laszlo Krasznahorkai

-Instability of elsewhere. 2019. Acrylic on canvas. 61X50 cm.

The emergence of clichés and slogans, especially religious emotion, disrupts thought and transforms all followers into hostages. -Detail of a deferred dream around a fly attracted. 2022. Acrylic on canvas.

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. The emergence of clichés and slogans, especially religious emotion, disrupts thought and transforms all followers into hostages.

-Detail of a deferred dream around a fly attracted. 2022. Acrylic on canvas.

When injustice becomes an empty idea, stripped of meaning and context, violence follows — for the void of sense calls forth the excess of action. Thus, the oppressed become, in turn, the makers of injustice. -The Apparition (5), 2025. Acrylic on canvas-textured paper. 31x 41cm.

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. When injustice becomes an empty idea, stripped of meaning and context, violence follows — for the void of sense calls forth the excess of action. Thus, the oppressed become, in turn, the makers of injustice.

-The Apparition (5), 2025. Acrylic on canvas-textured paper. 31x 41cm.

In the autumn wind, I watched a cloud slowly move over the wall of a sleeping forest. -Attempt to express the effect of cataract, 2024.

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. In the autumn wind, I watched a cloud slowly move over the wall of a sleeping forest.

-Attempt to express the effect of cataract, 2024.

When we are not mindful of our actions, it means we are no longer listening to the voice of our conscience. This can happen to crowds as well as individuals. — Study for: "Obeying the Unknown," 1996. Drawing on paper

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. When we are not mindful of our actions, it means we are no longer listening to the voice of our conscience. This can happen to crowds as well as individuals.

— Study for: "Obeying the Unknown," 1996. Drawing on paper

Human beings, by nature, are anxious to communicate with the unknown; despite all the anxieties it engenders in their minds, they hope to pierce the heart of matter with its help. -Secret of little nothing, 2025. Acrylic on canvas.

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. Human beings, by nature, are anxious to communicate with the unknown; despite all the anxieties it engenders in their minds, they hope to pierce the heart of matter with its help.

-Secret of little nothing, 2025. Acrylic on canvas.

When we discuss beauty, we often forget that it should be supported by something inside. -Once upon a time 2017. Acrylic on canvas. 30X24cm

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. When we discuss beauty, we often forget that it should be supported by something inside.

-Once upon a time 2017. Acrylic on canvas. 30X24cm

I lacked the strength or ability to create something more present than intuition, something that nature, through its infinite metamorphosis, can reveal by the colors, as an idea linked to the eternal. -The astonishment of memory, 2025.

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. I lacked the strength or ability to create something more present than intuition, something that nature, through its infinite metamorphosis, can reveal by the colors, as an idea linked to the eternal.

-The astonishment of memory, 2025.

All times are compatible with sadness; all times are compatible with joy. It's a matter of choice. -Appearance of the glass palette, 2007. Gouache on canvas.

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. All times are compatible with sadness; all times are compatible with joy. It's a matter of choice.

-Appearance of the glass palette, 2007. Gouache on canvas.

Periods of anomie in society must push all creative forces to abandon all dogmatic habits to create new moral and intellectual benchmarks. -Peak of peace, 2005. Oil on canvas.

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. Periods of anomie in society must push all creative forces to abandon all dogmatic habits to create new moral and intellectual benchmarks.

-Peak of peace, 2005. Oil on canvas.

The autonomy of the viewer of contemporary works of art is never fully realized in front of engaged pieces. The connections between a work and society serve as a test for the artist more than for the viewer. -Desire for Eternity, 2025. Mixed media on paper.

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. The autonomy of the viewer of contemporary works of art is never fully realized in front of engaged pieces. The connections between a work and society serve as a test for the artist more than for the viewer.

-Desire for Eternity, 2025. Mixed media on paper.

The idea that we're always trying to correct others' mistakes is absurd and masks our own inability to correct ourselves. - Mood (1) First confinement (coronavirus 19), 2020

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. The idea that we're always trying to correct others' mistakes is absurd and masks our own inability to correct ourselves.

- Mood (1) First confinement (coronavirus 19), 2020

No one can imitate something that does not exist. The imitation must be of something true and real. -Formalist Confusion (3), 1996. Gouache on paper

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. No one can imitate something that does not exist. The imitation must be of something true and real.  

-Formalist Confusion (3), 1996. Gouache on paper

Any conflict must be understood within two contexts: historical and geographical, which helps clarify the idea of coexistence between reason and emotions. -Meca-Myth (16), 1996. Pencil on paper.

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. Any conflict must be understood within two contexts: historical and geographical, which helps clarify the idea of coexistence between reason and emotions.

-Meca-Myth (16), 1996. Pencil on paper.

The application of the phenomenological method to a work of art can lead to a point of transcendence of the method itself, where the author's intentions can be glimpsed—intentions that belong to a non-phenomenological order. -Formalist Confusion (2), 1996.Gouache on paper.

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. The application of the phenomenological method to a work of art can lead to a point of transcendence of the method itself, where the author's intentions can be glimpsed—intentions that belong to a non-phenomenological order.

-Formalist Confusion (2), 1996.Gouache on paper.

Truth—at its most basic level—is a human fact; even what is called scientific truth is, in reality, human because it originates from human logic. Only the absolute belongs outside of man. -Formalist Confusion (1), 1996. Gouache on paper.

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. Truth—at its most basic level—is a human fact; even what is called scientific truth is, in reality, human because it originates from human logic. Only the absolute belongs outside of man.

-Formalist Confusion (1), 1996. Gouache on paper.

The absolute cannot be known, but it can be seen even though it has no material existence. The universe, where we are only specters in its shadow, is the reflection of this absolute. - Reincarnation (11), 1998. Oil on canvas.

ChehadeAssaad's tweet image. The absolute cannot be known, but it can be seen even though it has no material existence. The universe, where we are only specters in its shadow, is the reflection of this absolute.

- Reincarnation (11), 1998. Oil on canvas.

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