"FACE" By Toni Al Maalouf

Medium: Acrylic on linen 

Dimensions: 100x80 cm 

Description: This expressive and deeply emotive painting presents a fragmented portrait emerging from a sea of swirling calligraphic and abstract gestures. The face—rendered with piercing blue eyes and loose, energetic strokes—seems to be both forming and dissolving within a chaotic cloud of symbols and color.

The background is a brilliant sky blue, which gives the impression that this figure exists in a mental or spiritual space rather than a physical one. The left side of the canvas is more focused on the facial features, while the right bursts outward into looping, spontaneous patterns in white, pink, red, and lavender—suggestive of thoughts, memories, or perhaps inner voices.

There’s a tension between identity and abstraction here, as if the subject is in a state of psychological flux. The raw brushstrokes, spontaneous marks, and color transitions evoke emotion, introspection, and the complexity of human consciousness.

This work resonates as a visual poem on self-awareness and mental chaos—powerful, vulnerable, and alive.