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Friday, February 21, 2020
01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #12
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Sunday, February 16, 2020
01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #10
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The present work is one of the most well-known examples of early Iraqi modernism painted by Mohammed "Hajji" Selim, father of prominent Iraqi painter Jewad Selim.
Mohammed Selim was born in Baghdad. His parents were both originally from Mosel in the North of Iraq. Like many individuals from well to do families in Iraq, Selim was educated at the military academy in Istanbul where students encountered Turkish artistic styles of calligraphy and miniature and landscape painting. During the Ottoman reign Selim became an officer in the Ottoman army as well as an amateur artist. More on Mohammed Selim
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Thursday, February 13, 2020
01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Nejib Belkhodja's Medina Between Two Storms, with Footnotes, #9
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020
02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Tayseer Barakat's Shoreless Sea, with Footnotes, 8
Tayseer Barakat is one of Palestine’s preeminent artists whose practice has drawn inspiration from the ancient past and from the oral traditions and cultural narratives that are intimately tied to life in Palestine. Working primarily in paint, inks, and dyes, he uses a color palette that is often limited to monochrome tones, which imbues his works with a certain soberness. In Barakat’s words, the dark colors he uses “reflect the hardships of our time and our present life. I think the pressure on us makes us use dark colors.” More on Tayseer Barakat
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Monday, February 10, 2020
01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #7
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Sunday, February 9, 2020
01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #6
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Thursday, February 6, 2020
01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, # 5
His father owned a small carpet shop in England, and Pour would spend time there as a child. He also often travelled to Los Angeles to visit family members on his father’s side, and would ultimately move there to attend Otis College of Art and Design (BFA, 2010). He is perhaps best known for a series of carpet paintings, which are still a part of his practice. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Kour Pour’s unique talent lies in the way he translates intricately-patterned carpets onto panelled surfaces using his signature multi-step, labor-intensive method. Every painting is based on a particular carpet that Pour has researched from exhibitions and auction catalogues, and each design incorporates a range of techniques, including scrupulous hand painting, silkscreen printing, and applying paint layers with a broomstick. More on Kour Pour
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Wednesday, February 5, 2020
03 Painting, Middle East Artists, Chant Avedissian's Icons of the Nile, with Footnotes, 3
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Tuesday, February 4, 2020
1 Painting, Middle East Artists, Jewad Selim's Lamea, with Footnotes, 2
After Jewad's death in 1961 "Lamea" remained with Lorna Selim till 1971, when it was sold into the equally esteemed collection of Iraq's preeminent art critic Jabra Ibrahim Jabra. More on this painting
Jewad Selim (1919–1961) was an Iraqi painter and sculptor born in Ankara (Turkey) in 1919. He became an influential artist through his involvement with the Iraqi Baghdad Modern Art Group, which encouraged artists to explore techniques that combined both Arab heritage and modern art forms. He is considered to be one of Iraq's greatest 20th-century sculptors.
Saleem studied sculpture in Paris (1938-1939) on a scholarship, but his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of war. He relocated to Rome (1939-1940), but again his studies were interrupted by war, forcing him to return to Baghdad. At war's end, he enrolled at the Slade School, London, where he was heavily influenced by Western artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore.
During the hiatus in his studies, Saleem was employed at the Directorate of Antiquities in Baghdad between 1940–1945 and was appointed head of the Sculpture Department at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad, a position he retained until his death in 1961. His work exposed him to Iraq's ancient art traditions, and he consciously sought to discover the possibilities of combining ancient motifs with within the modern abstract art he had observed in Europe.
Saleem consciously included Assyrian and Babylonian architectural features into his artworks - and was one of the first Iraqi artists to forge links with Iraq's ancient civilisations and their artistic traditions. More on Jewad Selim
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Sunday, February 2, 2020
01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, 4
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