Mahmoud Sabri, 1927 - 2012, Iraqi
A FAMILY OF FARMERS, c. 1960's
Oil on canvas
90 by 120 cm.; 35⅜ by 47¼ in.
Private collection
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 interest in painting developed and he attended evening art classes
there. After a successful career in banking, he became a full-time painter.
In the
1950s he pioneered the painting of social and political issues. Later he
studied art formally at the Surikov Institute for Art in Moscow 1961-1963. In
1963 he moved to Prague. In the late 1960s he started working on linking art
and science.
He was
actively involved in Iraq's arts community through his membership of various
art groups. Led by his contemporary, Faeq Hassan (1914-1992), this group was
inspired by Mespotamian art, Iraqi folklore and the 12th and 13th-century poets
of the Baghdad School.
In 1971, he published his Manifesto of the New Art of
Quantum Realism, QR. An application of scientific method in the field of
art. QR graphically represents the atomic level of reality using building
blocks based on the atomic light spectra of elements in nature. He continued to
work on developing QR until his death. He had several publications on art,
philosophy and politics in Arabic and English. More on Mahmoud Sabri
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