{"id":6735,"date":"2022-10-27T10:23:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T10:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/louvre-abu-dhabi-announces-shortlisted-artists-for-the-richard-mille-art-prize\/"},"modified":"2022-10-27T10:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T10:23:20","slug":"louvre-abu-dhabi-announces-shortlisted-artists-for-the-richard-mille-art-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=6735","title":{"rendered":"Louvre Abu Dhabi announces shortlisted artists for The Richard Mille Art Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nDUBAI: As a writer and painter who was equally accomplished in both disciplines, Kahlil Gibran is undoubtedly one of Middle East\u2019s greatest cultural exports. The Lebanese-American artist, author and philosopher is best known for his 1923 book of prose poetry \u201cThe Prophet.\u201d And while his work in English proved popular among the masses, the critical response, at the time, was less forgiving, perhaps because many of those critics didn\u2019t yet have the tools to fairly judge a writer with strong Eastern influences.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlmost a century after the publication of \u201cThe Prophet,\u201d however, Gibran\u2019s popularity continues to soar from generation to generation.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Kahlil Gibran&#039;s The Prophet Official US Release Trailer 1 (2015) - Liam Neeson Animated Movie HD\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lwQbMxDcRGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cGibran was the voice of the East that finally made it to the West and found that the West was hungry for spirituality,\u201d Glen Kalem-Habib, a Lebanese-Australian filmmaker and research historian, and founder of the Kahlil Gibran Collective, tells Arab News. \u201cJust take a look at the time period that he was around. There were a lot of great thinkers, poets, writers and artists and they all congregated in New York. So it was a great melting pot and Gibran had his finger on the on the pulse. He knew something great was coming; there was this industrialized nation that was being born and all this new technology coming out, there were such great innovations and thinking. So I think Gibran was kind of saying, \u2018All these great technologies are going to help people. I\u2019m going to write a book that helps people as well.\u2019 And he did this by using his voice from the East that was Arabic in thought and process, because he was part of this incredible history of an area that dates back aeons. He was aware of that and he was in tune with that, whether it was the \u2018Epic of Gilgamesh\u2019 right through to the Bible and the Qur\u2019an. It all happened in his backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nGibran was born in 1883 in the village of Bsharri near Mount Lebanon to Khalil Sa\u2019ad Gibran and Kamila Rahmeh, both Maronite Christians. While his mother encouraged his sensitive and artistic nature (she famously gifted him a book featuring artwork by Michelangelo, which spurred in him a lifelong love for the artist and art in general), his father was a more sporadic presence.<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter years of poverty and uncertainty, Kamila packed up her four children and moved to Boston to live with her relatives, leaving Gibran\u2019s father behind in Lebanon. Kamila and the kids settled in Boston\u2019s South End, at the time the second-largest Syrian-Lebanese-American community in the US.<br \/>Gibran, almost a teenager at the time, went to the Josiah Quincy School, where teachers soon noticed his artistic ability and he was soon also enrolled into the nearby art school, Denison House, where he was introduced to the avant-garde Boston artist F. Holland Day.<\/p>\n<p>\nGibran flourished. He quickly absorbed the works of Shakespeare, William Blake, W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot. \u201cHe was looking to make his mark. He was someone who lived a very sheltered life. Bsharri was so far removed, even from Beirut. So imagine, you know, 100-plus years ago, there wasn\u2019t much (there) you could read, right? I\u2019m pretty sure that it was very limited. So, one of the early impactful books he read was \u2018Thus Spoke Zarathustra\u2019 by Nietzsche. He was also inspired by Wagner\u2019s music. His first published book was a treatise on Arabic music inspired by Wagner,\u201d says Kalem-Habib.<\/p>\n<p>\nGibran was also heavily influenced by Arab literature and art, including \u201cOne Thousand and One Nights\u201d and the ancient epic \u201cLayla and Majnun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cHe was sort of fusing all of these influences into (something) no one ever did before. And he really, really nailed it,\u201d Kalem-Habib says.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\">\n<figcaption>\nA still from the 2014 animated movie &#8216;Kahlil Gibran&#8217;s The Prophet.&#8217; (GKIDS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\nGibran continues to find new audiences. In 2014, Mexican actress Salma Hayek \u2014 whose father is of Lebanese descent \u2014 produced an animated film adapting Gibran\u2019s work, titled \u201cKahlil Gibran\u2019s The Prophet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile Hayek\u2019s first exposure to Gibran was through her late Lebanese grandfather, she rediscovered the book years later as a college student, an experience that she told Entertainment Weekly \u201cwas very meaningful to me, because I felt like my grandfather was teaching me about life even though he was gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nDiscussing the film, Hayek said, \u201cI think it\u2019s important that people remember there\u2019s an Arab-American writer that wrote a book that has touched so many people. It\u2019s sold more than 120 million copies around the world and it has influenced the lives of people of all religions and creeds, ages, colors, and backgrounds. And I think that\u2019s relevant today. I also think it\u2019s important that we are exposed to material that reminds us of the beauty of our humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nA less high-profile but equally important adaptation came in the form of the stage musical \u201cBroken Wings,\u201d adapted from Gibran\u2019s 1912 autobiographical novel.<\/p>\n<p>\nWritten by Lebanese-English West End star Nadim Naaman and Qatari composer Dana Al-Fardan, the musical is a love letter to Gibran and the Middle East.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cDana and I were introduced by mutual friends back in 2016. She was in London for a concert of her own and I was performing in \u2018The Phantom of The Opera\u2019 at the time. We discovered that we both wanted to write a musical of Middle Eastern heritage which would shine a positive light on the region. Kahlil Gibran immediately stood out as an iconic Middle Eastern figure who has transcended borders and is revered in the Middle East, Europe and America,\u201d Naaman explains. \u201cHe became a perfect focus for us: to pay tribute to him and Lebanon and also to introduce him to a wider audience and celebrate his contribution to the literary world.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cGibran has always resonated strongly with me. His books were scattered throughout my family home as a child, his words recited at weddings, at funerals and graduations. Furthermore, as a man of Lebanese heritage who has spent his life in the West, I relate strongly to the fact that Gibran, and many other Lebanese, have spent more of their lives outside of the country than in it. As an actor, musician and writer trying to represent Lebanon internationally, there is no better role model than Gibran,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>\nSince it was first published, \u201cThe Prophet\u201d has never been out of print. It has been translated into more than 100 languages, making it among the top 10 most translated books in history. Its popularity soared in the 1960s, when American counterculture was on the rise, and later among the New Age movements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nTo celebrate the book\u2019s centenary next year, Kalem-Habib\u2019s collective is organizing several events across the US and possibly Middle East and will unveil a new monument in New York, a city where Gibran spent a considerable amount of time and where he took his last breath in 1931, aged 48.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cGibran was so ahead of his time. He represents many philosophical and moral ideas that the world continues to strive towards in 2022,\u201d says Naaman. \u201cHere was a Middle Eastern immigrant who found a new home in the West, and was writing one century ago about gender equality and women\u2019s rights, about harmony and tolerance between religions and nationalities, about the corruption of politicians and mistreatment of the working classes, about the ability to build a new home and find belonging if one has to leave one\u2019s own birthplace. Essentially, these all remain mainstream narratives in the global media.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2188961\/lifestyle\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: As a writer and painter who was equally accomplished in both disciplines, Kahlil Gibran is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Louvre Abu Dhabi announces shortlisted artists for The Richard Mille Art Prize - Gulf Times | News by the minute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gulf Times: Latest news across the GCC from UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2188961\/lifestyle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Louvre Abu Dhabi announces shortlisted artists for The Richard Mille Art Prize\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gulf News| UAE&#039;s Largest News aggregator site\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2188961\/lifestyle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gulf Times | News by the minute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100084981843786\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-27T10:23:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/userimages\/3915446\/4_a_still_from_the_2014_animated_movie_khalil_gibrans_the_prophet._credit_-_gkids.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"gulftimes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Gulftimesuae\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Gulftimesuae\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"gulftimes\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Louvre Abu Dhabi announces shortlisted artists for The Richard Mille Art Prize - 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