artist Fatima Mellal

Managed self-made artist Fatima Malal of exceeding the limits of her small village in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco through its substantive work that combines content simple and charming colors. And turns of creative in weaving carpets (carpets) to the ordination of plastic.Fatima Malal was born in one of the remote villages in the Straits of Dades Tinghir labor in southeastern Morocco in 1968 from the family of medium Ashqh of art and music. As is the case with the majority of women of her generation Fatima did not benefit from education, which has been for decades the preserve of the lucky male only. While the work is distributed girls to household chores and work in the fields, in addition to collecting firewood in the mountains with the harsh terrain and take care of livestock, waiting for marriage and to continue those tasks in the house of the pair.Fatima relationship with art began weaving the carpet (carpet Traditional) Amazigh. In an interview with an Arab DW says, "When enough time from home Ochgala devote my time to weave carpets (carpets), a work is not easy and requires concentration and patience and accuracy in the selection of colors and shapes." Wherever wandering around visiting Fatima in the home, carpets elaborate hand-made felt like paintings boil down what is going on in her hand willingly spun.
Fatima and size have grown up with her love of art writing on the carpet and increased adherence to the language of colors and beauty, refusing to give in to a sickle and collect firewood alone these deaths as inevitable. Because the singer does not live Itrb fate decreed that the artist Fatima wait long to find the embraces of her experience outside her family. As was the case with the Moroccan folk artist Talal (1929 - 2004) who discovered her talent the French critic Pierre Coderre German painter Werner Quierdt to establish the so-called "innate art" in Morocco, the credit for the discovery of talent Fatima Mellal and support back to a Swiss lady. Fatima says, "I got to know a Swiss lady during her visit to our village and when she saw carpets spun, crossed my admiration for what I doAnd it suggested to transfer that experience to dyeing color on the canvas.
 In autumn and winter, which is a respite for farmers separation have free time and a large leak boredom of village women. While many women spend their free time in the chat, exchange visits, Fatima friendship badminton choose colors and painting. "When grabbed brushing, leave the freedom to choose the most memorable of shapes and colors you want and start to tell the story or the story of my personal experiences or the experiences that Oaaischha that I am right in the middle," he said.
Fatima painting passport to the worldWhat interests attention in paintings spontaneity of Fatima Malal is the simple expressed content-catching colors: Kids jumping from high peaks to the river, women carrying firewood laboriously as similar to the myth of Sisyphus, the elders tired and vanquished them, bronchitis which symbolize the Amazigh Engineering beautifully crafted and which has been subjected to extinction, ABC "Tifinagh" Amazigh, and so on. After Fatima does not exceed the limits of her remote village, paintings became her passport, which led to various continents and the world's largest cities in countries such as France, Switzerland, the United States and the Gulf. And this experience Fatima says: "participated Blouhati, which is part of my identity, in international exhibitions and respond to visitors with exhibitions in all the countries that I have visited." And created this trips and meetings with foreigners desire of Fatima to learn the French language to facilitate communication with them.
Every time Fatima return travel from afar, healed women and girls around the village to hear her novels about the West and Art. Experience infused with the village girls wanting to learn to use the badminton and not sickle and firewood only. Now her home turned into a workshop for asylum learning Beauty language in the region lack the cultural facilities, so that says: "Having had people look down upon to art in general and to the artistic creativity of women in particular, they have the desire to teach their daughters the assets and the rules of Art."