User:Roones art/sandbox

Biography :

Rana Radwan graduated with Honor from the Lebanese International University in 2011 with a BA in Visual and Fine Arts. She was born in Germany, but lived most of her life in Beirut. She began painting from a young age. She has been exhibiting her artworks in different places; Biel Afkart, Beirut designers week , and Metro al Madina’s exhibitions. Rana’s artwork has been displayed in various, bars, pubs, and restaurants across Beirut

Her paintings can be categorized as Pop Surrealism, which describes an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles, California, in the late 1970s. It is a populist art movement with its cultural roots in comics, punk music, and hot-rod cultures of the street art. Pop Surrealism often has a sense of humor - sometimes the humor is joyful, sometimes playful, and sometimes it is a sarcastic comment.

Rana find artistic inspiration in things that she loved, collected and that intrigued her as a child; bones, machine parts, dried ink pens, cotton candy, sweets and cupcakes, dead hard shelled bugs, rocks, shiny colored toys. She makes creative decisions intuitively or according to an emotional rather than logical sequence. She combines familiar and culturally recognizable objects and symbols in unfamiliar ways to evoke humor, paradox, and wonder.

Roones Character:

Roones is a fictional character with an unconventional look, which she expresses through her creative and colorful artwork.

All Roones products involve unique artistic work based on daily life stories that Roones encompasses. Sometimes the Roones character undertakes a DNA change and becomes another imaginative character combined with daily treats and objects that are adored by girls of all ages; like sweets, and stuffed animals.

The Character has been created to resemble the artist in its unique features but can embody any other person. The artist can simply alter several features and add gimmicks to the artwork and a story will be born. The artwork is simple yet can be very powerful depending on the person seeing it.

Roones symbolizes the confident female who is not afraid to have fun and stand out. This character is an icon for creativity, uniqueness, and self-expression.