Tag: Artists biography
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06 Ancient Arabian Engravings – With footnotes –
Arabian Bronze Statuette, ca. 1st Millenium BCE Southwestern Arabia, modern day Yemen, 1st millennium BCE. This is a bronze statuette of a human figure with thin arms and legs and a somewhat animalistic face, complete with two pointed ears. During the first millennium BCE, this part of the world saw several kingdoms – Qataban, Saba…
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Hamed Owais, The Harvest 02 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 19
Mohammed Hamed Owais was born in 1919 into a peasant family in the small village of Kafr Mansour in the governorate of Beni Soueif, Egypt. There, he received his primary and secondary education before working as a metalworker. He moved to Cairo, where he joined the School of Fine Arts. After he graduated in 1944, he…
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Inji Efflatoun, In the Woman’s Prison 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 18
Inji Aflatoun (1924–1989) was an Egyptian painter and activist in the women’s movement. She was a “leading spokesman for the Marxist-progressive-nationalist-feminist spokeswoman in the late 1940s and 1950s”, as well as a “pioneer of modern Egyptian art” and “one of the important Egyptian visual artists” During school, Aflatoun liked to paint and her parents encouraged her.…
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Nabil Anani, Vision 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 17
Nabil Anani (b.1943, Latroun, Palestine) is one of the most prominent Palestinian artists working today. He is considered by many as a key founder of the contemporary Palestinian art movement. On graduating in Fine Art from Alexandra University, Egypt [in 1969], Anani returned to his native Palestine and began a fruitful career as an artist and…
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Sliman Mansour, A Family Without a Shadow, c. 2018 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 16
The overwhelming significance of the physicality of Jerusalem as a national symbol permeates many of the artworks. The iconic representation of the Dome of the Rock comes to the fore as some artists celebrate the city Born in 1947, Birzeit, Palestine, Sliman Mansour studied fine art at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. He has held…
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HOSNI RADWAN, Jerusalem #3, c. 2018 51 YEARS OF OCCUPATION 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 15
The overwhelming significance of the physicality of Jerusalem as a national symbol permeates many of the artworks. The iconic representation of the Dome of the Rock comes to the fore as some artists celebrate the city via exceptionally colourful works Hosni Radwan was born in Baghdad in 1955. He studied fine arts at the University of…
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Zena Assi, Ricochets 1 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 14
Born in Lebanon, in 1974, Zena Assi lives and works between Beirut and London. She graduated with honors from l’Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts (ALBA), where she received a master’s degree in advertisement. Later on she worked in Saatchi&Saatchi advertisement agency for a few years in Beirut, and taught drawing and visual communication in different universities.…
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Walid Ebeid, Halal meat 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 13
Walid Ebeid was born in Cairo in 1970 and raised in Yemen during his childhood. Walid graduated with a BFA from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University, in 1992. His work has been exhibited internationally, earning him a reputation for his powerful expressive style. The controversial and provocative paintings of Walid Ebeid range from poignant studies of the female figure to People…
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Walid Ebeid, The immigrant 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 14
“People who feel strangers in their own countries seeking for a better life in other places where they will realize that they are more strange”. Walid Ebeid was born in Cairo in 1970 and raised in Yemen during his childhood. Walid graduated with a BFA from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University, in 1992. His work has been exhibited…
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Mona Trad Dabaji, L’attente/ The wait 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 11
Mona Trad Dabaji graduated from the American University of Beirut, just after the outbreak of the civil war in Lebanon. She lives and works in Beirut where she has been teaching painting since 1993. The artist has exhibited in Lebanon, France, Jordan, the United States and the United Arab Emirates. Beirut, The Phantom City, a Beirut…
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Laila Shawa, Red Table 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2q
Laila Shawa (Born Gaza 1940) is a Palestinian artist. Her work has been described as reflecting a view of the politics of her country highlighting perceived injustices and persecution. Often her work uses photographs that are used as the base for silkscreen printing. Her work has been internationally exhibited and has work on display in many…
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Safwan Dahoul, Reve/ Dream 01 Painting, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2o
Safwan Dahoul completed his first Dream in 1987, he has painted the same woman in the same muted monochromatic colours on what he assumes has been more than 1,000 canvases (although he never kept count). Every time, he titled it Dream. More on Dream Safwan Dahoul was born in Hama, Syria in 1961. He graduated from the Fine Arts…
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Adel El-Siwi, Umm Kalthom 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2n
Umm Kulthum December 31, 1898, (or May 4, 1904) died February 3, 1975) was an internationally renowned Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title Kawkab El Sharq “Planet of the Orient”. Umm Kulthum was known for her extraordinary vocal ability and style, and she…
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Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, Untitled 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2m
Charles Hossein Zenderoudi (Iran, b. 1937) Untitled Oil and metallic paint on canvas 146 x 97cm (57 1/2 x 38 3/16in) Private collection Charles Hossein Zenderoudi (born 1937 Tehran) is one of Iran’s most accomplished modern artists, and as a founding father of the highly influential Saqqa Khaneh movement, has been a pioneering figurehead of Iranian…
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Parvaneh Etemadi, Woman and Urn 01 Painting, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2l
Parvaneh Etemadi, born in Tehran in 1948, with nearly five decades of lively presence on the scene of visual arts, Parvaneh Etemadi is one of the most successful and popular Iranian artists both in the eyes of art virtuosos and laymen. Even though she was born in Tehran, Etemadi she spent her early childhood in the…
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Suad Al Attar, (Iraq, born 1942) 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2k
This vibrant work, by Suad al Attar, is electrified through the hyper-realistic rendering of a tree’s root system fanning out from the central trunk like lightning through the sky. The color scheme of intense reds and yellows contrasted with black adds to the visual vibrancy of the piece. More on this painting Suad al-Attar (born 1942) is…
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Suad Al-Attar, Tears of the soul 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2j
Suad al-Attar (born 1942) is a renowned Iraqi painter whose work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The British Museum and the Gulbenkian Collection. She has held over twenty solo exhibitions, including one in Baghdad that became the first solo exhibition in the country’s history for a woman artist. Her many awards include the…
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Adham Wanly, Nocturne Dabaka Dancers 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2i
The dabka, literally ‘stamping of the feet’ is a type of line dance popular at weddings and celebrations throughout the Middle East. In Wanly’s work the figures are gracefully depicted, appearing almost to float across the canvas. Adham Wanly (1908 in Alexandria, Egypt – 1959) was an Egyptian painter who learnt in the atelier of the…
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Seif Wanly, Spanish Ballet Dancers 01 Painting, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2h
Seif Waly (March 31, 1906 – February 15, 1979) was an Egyptian painter, born Mohammed Seif al-Din Waly into an aristocratic family, of Turkish origin, in Alexandria, Egypt. He was introduced to modern art after studying at the studio of the Italian artist Otorino Becchi. In 1942 he set up his own studio with his brother Adham…
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