Tag: Calligraphy
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Mahdi Almasi; Allah 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 32
Mahdi Almasi, poet and painter, was born in west of Iran and grew up in the ancient city of Hamedan. Almasi has always been artistically inclined, even from an early age that he gravitated toward art and beauty and involved in almost every aspect of creative art – Persian calligraphy, design, photography, sculpture – before…
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Said Elatab; Arab Woman 01 Painting MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 31
Said Elatab, Arab American painter & photographer who considers himself the epileptic painter, always risking his life to work the best shots. Said has painted while experiencing vision loss and head-banging pain from his epilepsy. Elatab, in art history aspires to be like the great Princes in the world of Painting. One would be Vincent Van…
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Meftah Raouf; AMOUR- حب – LOVE 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 30
Meftah Raouf. His love for calligraphy art and discovering art styles built his wealth and transmit it through his work. His calligraphy is the fruit of this wealth that raises questions. His calligraphy is unique and combined to other artistic techniques; they touch the heart and catch the eye of the public. Thanks to a perfect…
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Jamil Naqsh, Al-Haqq/ Truth 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 29
Jamil Naqsh, (25 December 1939 – 16 May 2019) was a British Pakistani painter who lived a reclusive life in London from 2012 until his death. He briefly studied at National College of Arts but left before obtaining a degree. His work has been described as idealized and sensual. Jamil Naqsh was born in Kairana, British…
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Faeq Hassan, Arabian 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 28
Faeq Hassan (1914–1992) was an Iraqi painter noted for founding several 20th century art groups, which collectively were responsible for bridging the gap between Iraqi heritage and traditional art and modern art. He is often called the ‘father of Iraqi modern art.’ Hassan was born in Baghdad in 1914 His father had died before Hassan was…
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Nuri Iyem, TWO WOMEN 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 27
“Nuri İyem worked on all types of paintings, but women’s portraits are obviously dominant in his art. Among his portraits, portraits of Anatolian women and landscapes with Anatolian women figures are especially memorable. It is generally accepted that Nuri İyem started painting Anatolian women’s portraits in the 1960s, but the first samples of such portraits…
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Sheeba Khan, ZEPHYR 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 43
Zephyr may refer to a light wind or west wind. For centuries, poets have eulogized Zephyrus, the Greek god of the west wind, and his “swete breeth”. Zephyrus, the personified west wind, eventually evolved into zephyr, a word for a breeze that is westerly or gentle, or both. Today, zephyr is also the sobriquet of a lightweight…
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Abed Abdi, B. 1942, PALESTINIAN 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 26
Palestinian art history is largely characterized by fragmentation, both in style and content, which is a result of ongoing wars and displacement of people. Despite historical ruptures in time and space, artists have flourished in a multitude of voices and places to create a vibrant Palestinian art scene. The featured works by Abed Abdi re…
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Mahmoud Sabri, AL MAWT AL-TAFL/ THE DEATH OF A CHILD 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 25
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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Antoine Malliarakis Mayo, YOUNG FELLAH, 02 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 24
Fellah, plural Fellaheen, is a farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa. The word derives from the Arabic word for “ploughman” or “tiller”. Due to a continuity in beliefs and lifestyle, the fellahin of Egypt have been described as the “true Egyptians”. A fellah could be seen wearing a simple Egyptian cotton…
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Othman Khuzaim; Untitled 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 23
Othman Khuzaim الفنان عثمان الخزيم (Saudi) is one of the prominent names of the first generations of Saudi artists who participated in the establishment of the visual art procession including Al-Saleem, Al-Ridawi, Nabila Al Bassam and Safia Bin Zaqer. He is a graduate of the Institute of art Education for Teachers in Riyadh and holds a…
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Inji Efflatoun, FELOUKAS ON THE NILE 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 23
A felucca is a traditional wooden sailing boat used in protected waters of the Red Sea and eastern Mediterranean, in Egypt and Sudan (particularly along the Nile), including Malta and Tunisia, and also in Iraq. Its rig consists of one or two lateen sails. The crew consists of two or three people. Despite the availability of motorboats…
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Paul Guiragossian, MÈRE ET ENFANT 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 21
Paul Guiragossian (1926 – November 20, 1993) was an Armenian Lebanese painter. Born to Armenian parents, Paul Guiragossian experienced the consequences of exile from a very tender age. Raised in boarding schools, he grew up away from his mother who had to work to make sure her two sons got an education. In the 1950s, Guiragossian started…
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Shakir Hassan Al-Said, LADY WITH THE HAT 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 20
Shakir Hassan Al Said (1925–2004), an Iraqi painter, sculptor and writer, is considered one of Iraq’s most innovative and influential artists. Born in Samawa, Al Said lived, worked and died in Bagdad. In 1948 he received a degree in social science from the Higher Institute of Teachers in Baghdad and in 1954 a diploma in painting…
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Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Untitled 9 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 37
‘It’s about looking at a space – how one relates to a space and how that space defines a person too,’ says Palestinian-Kuwaiti artist, photographer and academic, Tarek al Ghoussain. Long considered amongst the most progressive and engaged photographers at work in the Middle East today, al Ghossein’s intellectually-engaged and visually powerful imagery addresses the duality…
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Inji Aflatoun, L’OR BLANC (WHITE GOLD) 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 35
The current work – “L’or Blanc,” which translates to White Gold is a unique phrase coined by the Egyptian fellah (peasant) to cotton. As it was the most common commodity traded on the Egyptian stock market. More on this painting Inji Aflatoun (16 April 1924 – 17 April 1989) was an Egyptian painter and activist in the…
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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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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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