Tag: Calligraphy
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Bibi Zogbé, with Footnotes, #40
Bibi Zogbé was born in the Lebanese seaside village of Sahel Alma, Labibé Zogbé. She migrated to Argentina at the age of sixteen. Her professional artistic career began in the 1930’s with a number of exhibitions in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, in Chile and Uruguay, in Paris and elsewhere. At the end of…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #39; Alaa Ismail, Untitled
Iraqi born Alaa Ismail (1974) started practicing the art of calligraphy from a young age. He studied various artistic disciplines at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Baghdad, including decorative arts, Islamic architecture, glass painting and Islamic Art, graduating in 2003. Currently living in Damascus, Syria, Ismail has taught and lead many projects looking…
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Nabil Anani; Qur’anic Pages; 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #38
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 a…
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Youssef Nabil, EHSAN CRYING, 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #37
Youssef Nabil (born 6 November 1972) is an Egyptian artist and photographer. Nabil started his photography career in 1992. In 1997, Nabil worked in Paris with the Peruvian fashion photographer Mario Testino till late 1998. In 1999, Youssef Nabil had his first solo exhibition in Cairo. Nabil left Egypt in 2003 for an artist residency at the…
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Youssef Nabil, MY BED, FIFI ABDOU, 01 Photograph, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #36
Fifi Abdou, born Atiyat Abdul Fattah Ibrahim, April 26, 1953, is an Egyptian belly dancer and actress. She has been described as “synonymous with belly dancing in the years she was performing.” In her acting career, she is known as the woman-empowering type where, rarely in Egyptian culture and film, she beats up and overpowers…
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Seif Waly, ALEXANDRIA BEACH 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #35
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 Wanly…
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Nuri İyem, UNTITLED, 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #34
Nuri İyem, (1915 – d. 18 June 2005 ) was a leading figure in the Turkish painting and social-realistic art movement. Nuri İyem was born in Istanbul in 1915. During his childhood he used to paint walls with charcoal. Because of his father’s job as a health official, İyem spent his childhood in various cities of…
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Sliman Mansour, ON THE EDGE, 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #33
Sliman Mansour is a Palestinian painter, considered an important figure among contemporary Palestinian artists. Mansour is considered an artist of the intifada whose work gave visual expression to the cultural concept of sumud. Palestinian artist and scholar Samia Halaby has identified Mansour as part of the Liberation Art Movement and cites his important work as an…
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Mahmoud Sabri, CROSS BEARER , After Bosch 02 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #32
Mahmoud Sabri, 1927–2012, was an Iraqi painter, considered as one of the pioneers of Iraqi modern art and one of the pillars of modernism in Iraqi Art. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, died on 13th April 2012 in Maidenhead, England. Studied social sciences at Loughborough University (England) in the late 1940s. While in England, his interest…
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Bana Safar, Syrian Portrait, 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #95
Bana Safar, Syria, is a young Syrian artist graduated with Excellence from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus University in 2001, the 1st in class for 4 years consecutively. From 2003 – 2006 She was professor assistant in the faculty of Fine Arts; Damascus and is a member of the Association of Fine Arts Damascus. She…
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Mahmoud Sabri, A FAMILY OF FARMERS 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #31
Mahmoud Sabri, 1927 – 2012, was an Iraqi painter, considered as one of the pioneers of Iraqi modern art and one of the pillars of modernism in Iraqi Art. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, died on 13th April 2012 in Maidenhead, England. Studied social sciences at Loughborough University (England) in the late 1940s. While in England, his…
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Farid Belkahia; JERUSALEM 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #30
Farid Belkahia (1934–2014) was born into a wealthy bourgeois family in Marrakech. He grew up with his father’s art collection, and his further artistic awakening would take place within his father’s circle of friends. From about 1950, Belkahia took classes in Teslar’s studio. During these years, and prior to his departure from Morocco, Belkahia distanced himself…
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LAILA SHAWA, THE WELL 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #29
“The first painting made in Beirut not long after the devastating June war and the only known work of this type from 1967, The Well forgoes all allusion to landscape in favour of a hot expansive background of reds and yellows. Beneath the disc of a searing sun…” More on this work Laila Shawa (Born Gaza…
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Mamdouh Kashlan, Women’s public bath in Damascus 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #28
A Hammam is a kind of bath that originated in the Middle East and combines exposure to warm air, then steam or hot-air immersion, massage, and finally a cold-water bath or shower. The Hammam typically requires movement from one room or chamber to the next. Separate wash rooms and soaking pools may be included in the…
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05 Works, Today, June 7th is Saint Marcellinus’ day, his story in Paintings #158
When the Emperor Diocletian summoned Hieromartyr Marcellinus, pope of Rome (304), and threatened him with torture, he offered incense and sacrifice to idols and was, because of this, rewarded by the Emperor with a costly garment… Please follow link for full post
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Unknown artist; A LADY DRUMMING 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #27
Qajar art refers to the art, architecture, and art-forms of the Qajar dynasty of the late Persian Empire, which lasted from 1781 to 1925 in Iran (Persia). The boom in artistic expression that occurred during the Qajar era was the fortunate side effect of the period of relative peace that accompanied the rule of Agha Muhammad…
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Mohammad Sadiq; A LADY AT LEISURE 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #26
A young lady sits, wearing floral skirt, a sheer shirt, jewels around her neck and flowers in her hair, leaning against a floral bolster cushion, a tray of fruit before her and a bottle and glass in her hands, behind her a servant stands behind a geometric balustrade, a porcelain dish in her hands. More on…
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Mahmoud Said, Eid al-Adha 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #25
Eid al-Adha, Muslim festival, marks the culmination of the hajj (pilgrimage) rites at Minā, Saudi Arabia. Eid al-Adha is distinguished by the performance of communal prayer at daybreak on its first day. It begins on the 10th of Dhū al-Ḥijjah, the last month of the Islamic calendar, and continues for an additional three days. During…
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Suleiman Mansour, The Camel/Carrier of Hardships 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #24
Born in 1947, Birzeit, Palestine, Sliman Mansour studied fine art at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. He has held solo exhibitions in Ramallah, New York, Sharjah, Cairo, Gaza and Stavanger, Norway. His group exhibitions include Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow (1980), Palestinian Spring, Al-Hakawati Theatre, Jerusalem, 1985; New Visions, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts,…
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Sliman Mansour, FROM JERUSALEM 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #23
Born in 1947, Birzeit, Palestine, Sliman Mansour studied fine art at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. He has held solo exhibitions in Ramallah, New York, Sharjah, Cairo, Gaza and Stavanger, Norway. His group exhibitions include Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow (1980), Palestinian Spring, Al-Hakawati Theatre, Jerusalem, 1985; New Visions, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts,…
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