Tag: MiddleEastArt
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Marwan Sahmarani’s The War of August 22-28, with Footnotes #89
Sold for £10,687.50 in Jun 2019 On August 28, 1997, over 300 people were hacked to death in the village of Rais, about 30 miles south of Algiers, in Algeria. The attack was part of a wave of atrocities committed during fighting between Islamic fundamentalist guerrillas and the Algerian military regime, which had intensified late…
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01 Work, The art of War, Assyrian Army Besieges a City, with Footnotes
The Assyrian empire has been described as the “first military power in history”. Mesopotamia was the site of some of the earliest recorded battles in history. In fact, the first recorded battle was between the forces of Lagash and Umma c. 2450 BC. Like many Mesopotamian records, it contains elements of fiction. The ruler of…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Anas Albraehe’s Future’s Guards and Bab Alhawa – Gate of Exile, with Footnotes #88
In 1948, more than 700000 Palestinian Arabs — about half of Palestine’s Arab population — fled from their homes or were expelled by Zionist militias and, later, the Israeli army during the 1948 Palestine war, following the Partition Plan for Palestine… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Oussama Diab’s New Guernica, with Footnotes #96
The complex painting received mixed reviews when it was shown in the Spanish Republic Pavilion at the world’s fair in Paris… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Oussama Diab’s Untitled, 2008, with Footnotes #93
Born in 1977, in Damascus, Oussama Diab is a Palestinian contemporary artist based in Lebanon. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus in 2002. Diab has worked through various painting styles, often combining different forms and techniques in a single composition. His early works amassed paintings in a neo-expressionist style resonating with the tense…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Michelangelo and Oussama Diab’s depiction of The creation, with Footnotes #95
This painting is based on the Creation of Adam, also known as The Creation of Man is a fresco painting by Italian artist Michelangelo… Please follow link for full post
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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 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The art of War, Mahmoud Sabri’s Jnazet (Funeral), with Footnotes
Sold for 346,000 GBP in October 2018 The painting Jnazet is the peak of a multifaceted representation of the artist’s political and social ideologies that were intensified following the Ba’athist Coup. The funeral ‘procession’ is harshly etched, with jagged and symmetrical tendencies; an uplifted arm both appears to beat a drum and gesture in defiance. The…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The art of War, Maher Attar’s Samar Baltaji, with Footnotes
Samar Baltaji is the one-legged mother in the photo, holding the hand of her maimed daughter, Nisrine, as they walked through a landscape of Beirut at war. In June 1985, during the war in the Palestinian camps — which pitted the Amal party against the Palestinians — he captured a photo that made the front…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The art of War, Suleiman Mansour’s Motherhood, with Footnotes
Sold for 63,500 GBP in Oct 2023 An impassioned and tender depiction of the relationship between mother and child, Motherhood represents Mansour’s natural tendency towards familiar subjects, here both familial and national. With sincerity, the artist has rendered the ubiquitous narrative of motherhood with a localised style and custom; dressed in traditional robe, the woman holds…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Oussama Diab’s Monroe Al Jadida (The New Monroe), with Footnotes #92
Sold for USD 10,000 in Nov 2013 Born in 1977, in Damascus, Oussama Diab is a Palestinian contemporary artist based in Lebanon. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus in 2002. Diab has worked through various painting styles, often combining different forms and techniques in a single composition. His early works amassed paintings in…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, El Hussein Fawzi’s A Glimpse from History of the Channel Crossing, with Footnotes #87
The Crossing of the Suez Canal by Egyptian troops in October 1973 to attack Israeli forces; and the signing of the “Treaty of Peace between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel” by Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin on March 26, 1979. Born in Helmia district, Cairo on 4 September 1905, El Hussein…
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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, THE ART OF WAR, Mahmoud Sabri’s Al Mawt al-Tafl (The Death of a Child), with Footnotes #86
The Death of a Child, painted during Sabri’s earlier artistic phase in the 1960s, stands as an epitome for his artistic openness which was exacerbated by a career in exile. The painting evokes inspirational elements through the artist’s exposure to both contemporary Soviet Realist artwork and traditional Russian Orthodox icons. The piece depicts the mourning…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Ayman Baalbaki’s Untitled, with Footnotes #85
Ayman Baalbaki’s untitled artwork represents a bust view portrait of a fida’i (freedom fighter) wearing a keffiyeh, and a Guy Fawkes mask, set against a colorful background of acrylic in fabric laid on canvas Painted in Ayman Baalbaki’s signature expressionist style, the thought-provoking composition experiments with the notion of identity. Indeed, the portrayed fighter is…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The art of War, Abed Abdi’s Expulsion from the Homeland, with Footnotes
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 (Lot…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The Art of War, Laila Shawa’s Target 2009, with footnotes
Sold for £ 6,000 in Jun 2009 Target 2009 was created as a direct response to the tragically high death toll amongst Gaza’s children due to Israeli military assaults earlier in 2009. A variation of the iconic Target (1992) from Shawa’s Walls of Gaza I silk screen series, it is also related to Targets (1994) from Walls…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Suleiman Mansour’s Motherhood, with Footnotes #69
Sold for 63,500 GBP in Oct 2023 An impassioned and tender depiction of the relationship between mother and child, Motherhood represents Mansour’s natural tendency towards familiar subjects, here both familial and national. With sincerity, the artist has rendered the ubiquitous narrative of motherhood with a localised style and custom; dressed in traditional robe, the woman holds her…
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01 Work, The art of War, Afshin Pirhashemi’s Untitled, with Footnotes
Sold for USD 100,000 in May 2013 Instantly recognisable for their photo-realistic execution and monochromatic palette, Afshin Pirhashemi’s paintings examine the role of women in Iranian society and their relationship to the world around them. Tapping into the psychosocial dimensions of contemporary Iran, the artist explores manifestations of power as they appear or are negotiated through…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Iythar Ghurab’s Fighter, with footnotes
For sale at C$1,320 in Jan 2024 “This painting is inspired by the unbelievable injustice, genocide, massacres and 75 year long crimes committed against the Palestinian people, by the Israeli occupiers, bombing civilians, women and children, bombing hospitals, shelters and schools and all exit routes, flattening their homes, ruining their fields and stealing their land,…
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