Tag: Louay Kayali
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Louay Kayyali’s From Under the Rubble, with Footnotes #94
Sold for USD 103,000 in Oct 2007 Active during a time of immense upheaval in the Arab world, Kayyali was one of its most prominent socio-political artists, his paintings externalising the pressing humanitarian and political issues that surrounded him. His powerful depictions of ordinary people are characterized by strong fluid lines that define the figures…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Louay Kayyali’s Untitled, with Footnotes #93
Sold for USD 161,000 in Oct 2014 1952 marks the year during which the present untitled battle scene was depicted as well as the first public appearance of Kayyali’s work, an event that took place in his secondary school in Aleppo, the Madrasset Al Tajhiz Al Oula- Al Ma’moun Secondary School. Prior to that, Kayyali’s art was…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Louay Kayali’s Cake Seller, with Footnotes, #53
“The Cake (Ka’ak) Seller” is a prime examples of Kayyali’s mature period in which key characters from Syrian daily life merge to the forefront. In this body of work, Kayyali highlights the protagonist’s struggle and vividly captures how political upheaval affected the Syrian population’s demeanor, shaping a culture and society that led to poverty and…
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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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