Georges Hayek Artist
"These are not paintings in the usual sense; they are life and death merging in fearful union. As for me, they kindle a fire; through them I breathe again, hold a golden cord, and find my own revelation."
Georges Hayek
Georges Hayek was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1973 to a middle-class Christian Lebanese family just when the civil war in Lebanon had started, but he did not feel the effect of the war until he was 12 years old and immigrated to France. There he watched the influence of change of religious freedom, racism and social classification, impact his family and open his eyes to the real world he was always sheltered from by his family in Lebanon.
From there he travel throughout Europe working at different resorts, clubs and leisure travel resorts as an Host of Holiday Center. There he discovered the world of snowboarding and that became a passion and a way of life. He settled in the picturesque ski resort town of Courchevel, France. Then reality set in and after a couple of years, and many pros and cons in the entrepreneurial world in Amsterdam, Netherlands he decide to come to try the American dream where part of his family had immigrated many years ago.
After many years here in the USA is where George discovered his passion for painting and becoming an artist after having a heart-rending experience and being advised by his therapist to try painting as his therapy.
He started abstract art as a focal point of therapy which later fed into his painting, and shaped his understanding of abstract art, not only to help to ease the depression setting in during his solitude period but also to express the outpouring emptiness he felt from modern humanity. It inspired him to find the peace, release and freedom once a painting came to maturity. While painting he found that he became in the state of euphoria and ecstasy and that nothing else existed but his canvas in his own universe.
Once in front of a blank canvas he begins to visualize the sounds of melancholia and qualm, and a vortex of colors which pour out of his mind and create roiling vortexes of colors and lines. Once the paining is finished it became a vocal point and different dimension which brought the parallel of entry and access to his world which he closed off while painting.
Georges Hayek is an American French Lebanese Artist born in Beirut, Lebanon just when the civil war in Lebanon had started. He immigrated to France with his family when he reached the age of 13 there he watched the influence of change of religious freedom, racism and social classification, impact his family and open his eyes to the real world he was always sheltered from by his family in Lebanon. He started painting as a focal point of healing, which later fed into his artistic paintings and shaped his understanding of abstract art.
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From there he travel throughout Europe working at different resorts, clubs and leisure travel resorts as an Host of Holiday Center. There he discovered the world of snowboarding and that became a passion and a way of life. He settled in the picturesque ski resort town of Courchevel, France. Then reality set in and after a couple of years, and many pros and cons in the entrepreneurial world in Amsterdam, Netherlands he decide to come to try the American dream where part of his family had immigrated many years ago.
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After many years in the USA is where Georges discovered his passion for painting and becoming an artist after having a heart-rending experience and being advised to try painting as a point of healing.
He started abstract art as a focal point of healing which later fed into his painting, and shaped his understanding of abstract art, not only to help to ease his demons and solitude period but also to express the outpouring emptiness he felt from modern humanity. It inspired him to find the peace, release and freedom once a painting came to maturity. While painting he found that he became in the state of euphoria and ecstasy and that nothing else existed but his canvas in his own universe.
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Once in front of a blank canvas he begins to visualize the sounds of melancholia and qualm, and a vortex of colors which pour out of his mind and create roiling vortexes of colors and lines. When the paining is finished it becomes a vocal point and different dimension which brought the parallel of entry and access to his world which he closed off while painting.
Until present moment, painting, still releases a need to have moments to put out the sounds, the feelings, the anger and combine those moments of peace inside out of me and onto the canvas with colors.