Tag: Middle East
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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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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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