Tag: Artists biography
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Jamil Hamoudi 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 15
“Calligraphy for the Arab artist was for centuries a major outlet of creativity: he employed it inventively and in endless modulations to express a powerful aesthetic impulse often associated with ‘spiritual’ feelings, largely because most of the phrases thus written were of a religious nature. The words were sufficient unto themselves as ‘content’, the beauty of their meaning being reflected…
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Tahia Halim (Egypt, 1919-2003) 02 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2g
Both works by the artist were executed in the 1960s during the artist’s Nubian period. Halim visited Nubia twice in the early 1960s, once with her friend and colleague Cleopatra Shahata in 1961 and again with a group of fifty academics and artists in 1962 on a trip organised by Tharwat Okasha, the then Minister…
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Fateh Moudarres, A Song from the Syrian Countryside 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2f
The present composition depicts the life of the simple peasants, showing the country bride and wedding party. In such a scene one might expect to see joyful celebration, but instead there is a palpable aura of sadness, as Moudarres reveals something of his feelings about suffering and helplessness of these women in the rural areas. More…
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Louay Kayyali, The Young Ka’ik Seller 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2e
Ka’ik Seller: Street vendor selling Ka’ik (bread with sesame seeds) Louay Kayali (1934–1978) was a Syrian modern artist. He was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1934 and studied art in the Accademia di Belle Arti after having studied at the Al-Tajhiz School where his work was first exhibited in 1952. He met Syrian artist Wahbi Al-Hariri there…
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Dia Azzawi, Marsh Women 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2c
The Marsh Arabs, also known as the Maʻdān (Arabic: معدان), are inhabitants of the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands in the south and east of Iraq and along the Iranian border. Comprising members of many different tribes and tribal confederations that had developed a unique culture centered on the marshes’ natural resources. Many of the marshes’ inhabitants were displaced…
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Faeq Hassan, Baghdad Scene 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2b
Faeq Hassan was born in Baghdad in 1914 and died in 1992. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1938. He founded the Painting Department at the Fine Arts Institute in 1939-1940. Founded the Pioneers Group (or S.P) in 1950. He participated in its exhibitions until 1967 when he joined in founding the Corner…
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Kamel Moustafa, Cairo Street Scene 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2a
Kamel Moustafa, (Egypt, 1917-1982) Cairo Street Scene oil on board, signed lower left 48 x 49cm (18 7/8 x 19 5/16in) Private collection Although this work is undated it has been suggested that it was executed in the early 1950s. Kamel Moustafa belongs to the second generation of Modern Egyptian artists who sit between the Pioneers…
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