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 The talented Iraqi artist Ahmed Helmy published this painting through his personal account on the social networking site "Facebook" under this phrase "I do not want a muzzle, but I want safety, I want food."

The Iraqi artist Ahmed Helmy was logical to the extent that he cried from her opinion and affected everyone who saw her, because our need for safety is the light that we are waiting for after every darkness, whose colors are well suited to the tearing that awaits the future of this child who is looking for his homeland for a living and a moment of stability.

The Iraqi artist Ahmed Helmy was born in the governorate of Baghdad, and he grew up in a popular environment. He belongs to a large family of less than average material level, consisting of 10 members.

The Iraqi artist Ahmed Helmy began practicing the art of simple drawing at the age of five and learned his beginnings from his older brother, who found in himself a passion, love and instinct .. When he attended elementary school and because of the availability of drawing materials, his talent grew and participated in exhibitions at the governorate level and he took this passion and love growing His level develops as he progresses in his academic stages, in which he is superior to his peers.

Upon the arrival of the Iraqi artist Ahmed Helmy, the threshold of the university stage occurred in the biggest mistake in his life as he dreamed of entering the Academy of Fine Arts to refine his talent academically, but fate decreed and because of his high academic rate and the pressure of his family and relatives, he made him enroll in the Faculty of Law, and thus he lost the opportunity to develop the academic framework For his talent for drawing.

However, he did not leave her and continued to practice the art of drawing, develop himself and participate in exhibitions at the university level, and he established an office for drawing personal pictures in his area to help him with the expenses of university studies.

After the graduation of the Iraqi artist Ahmed Helmy, he worked as a lawyer and did not stop painting, but not as before because of his immersion in the work of the courts and family concerns, and we do not forget the circumstances of the war that his homeland, Iraq, went through.

Most of his drawings were concerned with the obsession of the poor and the humanitarian and emotional issues, as he interacts with any social, economic, political or military circumstance. That is, art is for society and not art for art, and it has supported many human causes and attacked many of the masters of injustice and the enemies of mankind.

Iraqi artist Ahmed Helmy uses many materials to create his paintings, such as cloth, paper, oil colors, pastels, wood pens and charcoal, and he prefers to draw with wood pens.

The Iraqi artist and jurist said about his dreams:

I dream that I draw in every role