Amar's first dream was to be a painter, he couldn't realize it due to society pressure, He graduated from a university architecture program in 2003, had a career as an architect for 5 years in Iraq and Dubai, returned home, only to leave it to go to Ukraine due to events that happened in Iraq in 2008. After residing in east Ukraine, he was inclined to leave architecture and head to illustration. He had a career as an illustrator, then he had to head to the far west of the country in 2014 due to the Russian occupation there. Al-Robeai carried on working as an illustrator, but the urge to become a fine artist kept growing. He started experimenting on how to translate feelings and ideas onto the canvas, with a certain artistic language that he started to build that took him years to master. In 2023 he fled Ukraine due to the new war with Russia and resided in the United States, again leaving the life he has built for the 3rd time. During all these episodes, accompanied with radical changes, Amar started to take nothing for granted and due to that, he experienced huge increase in human's social and spiritual vocabularies, from the different societies and people around and above all from within himself, noticing the similarities and complexities of feelings and ideas within people from different societies, which draws a stark similarity to the complexities nature itself. Amar's experience as an architect and illustrator, added to his artistic character, having an extensive visual library of natural, abstract and subconscious vocabularies made him magnify, blend and use them to represent different feelings and ideas on canvas. His philosophy is that humans are subconsciously inclined to head towards complexity, due to the complexity of nature, a simple example is the human's feeling when looking at a big tree, with all its branches, leaves and it's endless textures, the first subconscious reaction of seeing it is the silent sound from the back of the head of the word "Home". "My goal is to create art that won't be represented as simply part of an interior design but stands as an individual entity with a sophisticated character that affects its surroundings. A door to a certain emotion or trait that evokes a reaction from the beholder for the longest period of time, and keeps evolving, hence commands our attention every time we pass by. " -Amar Al-Robeai
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