ART UNDER AGGRESSION

An artist's tribute to painter Duniyana Al-Amoor, killed in her room in Gaza at age 22.

by MALAK MATTAR

June 22, 2023

ABOLITION WEEK

https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/06/duniyana-al-amoor/

Abeer Jebril hopes her portraits will bring attention to the social and political problems women face in Gaza, #70

Abeer Jebril hopes her portraits will bring attention to the social and political problems women face in Gaza, rappler

01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Abd El-Ghaffar Shedid's At the Gate, with Footnotes #58

Abd El-Ghaffar Shedid (EGYPT, BORN 1938)

At the Gate, c. 1963

Oil on panel, framed

80 x 50cm (31 1/2 x 19 11/16in).

Private collection

Sold for £5,062.50 in June 2020

Abd El-Ghaffar Shedid was born in 1938 in Cairo where he still lives and works. He has a PhD in Ancient Egyptian Art History from Helwan University, Cairo. He is a Lecturer at the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University, founder and head of the Art History Department, and recently has become a Lecturer in Art History and Painting at the American University in Cairo. His paintings are mainly concerned with the visual language and symbols of ancient Egyptian art, which reflect the divinity within the creation of the cosmos. More on Abd El-Ghaffar Shedid

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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Kahlil Gibran's Head of a child, with Footnotes #69

Kahlil Gibran (American, 1883-1931)

Head of a child

Pencil and watercolour 

19 x 28cm (7 1/2 x 11in)

Private collection

Sold for £31,250 in April 2015

"Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror
But you are eternity and you are the mirror"
Kahlil Gibrain

Gibran Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages. More on Gibran Khalil Gibran 

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01 Work, Middle East Artists, Lalla Essaydi's Les Femmes du Maroc/ The Women of Morocco Revisited #1 with Footnotes #67

Lalla Essaydi

Les Femmes du Maroc/ The Women of Morocco Revisited #1, c. 2010

Chromogenic print mounted to aluminum and protected with Mactac lustre laminate

101.6 by 76.1cm. 40 by 30 in.

Private collection

 Sold for 10,080 GBP in October 2022

"Arab women today are facing difficulties and Orientalist attitudes from Arab and Western societies alike...they remain defined by their sexuality, threatening to men but appealing to Western fantasies. My photographs seek to portray Arab women as powerful presences in their own right." (THE ARTIST - QUOTED IN THE STRAITS TIMES - 2018

Lalla A. Essaydi grew up in Morocco and now lives in USA where she received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/TUFTS University in May 2003. Essaydi’s work is represented by Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston and Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City. Her work has been exhibited in many major international locales, including Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Texas, Buffalo, Colorado, New York, Syria, Ireland, England, France, the Netherlands, Sharjah, U.A.E., and Japan and is represented in a number of collections, including the Williams College Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Fries Museum, the Netherlands, and The Kodak Museum of Art. Her art, which often combines Islamic calligraphy with representations of the female body, addresses the complex reality of Arab female identity from the unique perspective of personal experience.  In much of her work, she returns to her Moroccan girlhood, looking back on it as an adult woman caught somewhere between past and present, and as an artist, exploring the language in which to  “speak” from this uncertain space.  Her paintings often appropriate Orientalist imagery from the Western painting tradition, thereby inviting viewers to reconsider the Orientalist mythology.  She has worked in numerous media, including painting, video, film, installation, and analog photography.

"In my art, I wish to present myself through multiple lenses -- as artist, as Moroccan, as traditionalist, as Liberal, as Muslim.  In short, I invite viewers to resist stereotypes." More on  Lalla A. Essaydi

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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Jamil Molaeb's Jerusalem, with Footnotes #66

Jamil Molaeb

Jerusalem, c. 2021

Oil on canvas

75 by 55 cm. 29 1/2 by 21 1/2 in.

Private collection

Sold for 9,450 GBP in October 2022

The city of Jerusalem was a subject that Jamil Molaeb returned to over and over. In a succession of almost identical canvases, the artist repeated, with very slight variations of themes and colours, small architectural and figural elements inherent to the city whilst hinting at universal symbols. This work was painted as a bird’s eye view featuring the Dome of the Rock surrounded by houses, fruits, animals and the city’s dwellers, in a dense intersection of stone and nature. The brushwork is organized in layers derived from the artist’s preparatory studies, and from which emerge a clear structure in which both the sacred element of the city as well as its more mundane aspects are revealed, rendering it universal. More on this painting

Jamil Molaeb (1948) was born in Baissour, Lebanon. He started his artistic career in the seventies, after training under renowned artists such as Chafic Abboud and Paul Guiragossian at the Fine Arts Institute of the Lebanese University. In 1967, 18 years old Jamil Molaeb won the 3rd prize of sculpture at 7th Salon of the Sursock Museum.

Craving further discoveries and exposure to the world, he spent a year studying in Algeria and, in 1984, enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts program at New York’s Pratt Institute, to later obtain a doctorate in artistic education from Ohio State University.

Back in his native country in 1989, Molaeb started teaching art at the Lebanese University and the Lebanese American University of Beirut.

Since 1966 he has held different solo exhibitions in Lebanon, Algeria, France, Switzerland and the United States.

His work has been showcased in a number of Art Fairs: Art Abu-Dhabi, Beirut Art Fair, Art Dubai, Art14 London and La Biennale de Lyon.

Jamil Molaeb’s work has been exhibited at international museums such as the Gropius Bau Museum in Berlin, his paintings are acquired by public and private collections including The World Bank in Washington DC, the Institute de Monde Arabe in Paris and has been sold in international auctions. More on Jamil Molaeb

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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Nadia Saikali's Paysage de Montagne, with Footnotes #63

Nadia Saikali

Paysage de Montagne, c. 1995

Oil on canvas

120 by 100 cm. 47 1/4 by 39 1/2 in.

Private collection

Sold for 35,280 GBP in October 2022

“Too many people theorize and politicize about one's choice of colours in painting. This is not what I put forward in my works. After having focused my attention on the four elements mentioned in the Genesis: Earth- Fire- Water- Air, I now feel like expressing freely my joy to be alive and at peace. My main interests are the positive achievements of humankind, knowing that everything is related, that death is a proven certitude and that human wisdom has not yet been reached on Earth. Therefore I can claim out loudly that "Time for Peace has Come Now".” More on this painting

Nadia Saikali was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1936. She graduated from the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts in 1956 and then studied at L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière and L’École des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. She trained in the studios of Henri Goetz, Michel Durand and Donnot Seydoux. She lived in Glasgow for brief period before returning to Beirut in the mid-1950s. She participated in the annual Salon du Printemps at the UNESCO Palace and the Salon d’Automne at Sursock Museum in the long 1960s. She held solo exhibitions in Beirut at the John F. Kennedy Center (1967), the L’Orient newspaper headquarters (1970), the Goethe Institute (1972) and Contact Art Gallery (1972). In 1967, she participated in the São Paulo Biennale. She permanently moved to France in 1979 amid civil war. Her work features in the collections of the Sursock Museum, Beirut; Society of Lebanese Architects and Engineers, Beirut; The Nadia Tueni Foundation, Beit Mery, Lebanon; The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York; The City of Paris, the National Fund of Contemporary Art, Paris and The Royal Institute Galleries, London. More on Nadia Saikali

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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Juhaina Habibi Kandalaft's Untitled (La Guitariste/Knowing to Perform), with Footnotes #61

Juhaina Habibi Kandalaft

Untitled (La Guitariste/Knowing to Perform), c. 1986

Oil on canvas

98.5 by 68.7 cm. 38 3/4 by 27 in.

Private collection

Estimate for 4,000 - 6,000 GBP in October 2022

Juhaina Habibi Kandalaft was born in Jerusalem in 1947, later lived and grew up in Haifa and Nazareth where she now resides; married with four children.

The artist started drawing and painting as a hobby in her childhood. Fourteen years after her marriage, she joined the school of arts at Oranim College (Tivon) where she graduated in 1985. She taught art, sculpture and painting in different schools in Nazareth and the area, and in her spare time she paints in her private studio. She uses oil colors on canvas in different combined techniques and she sculptures using mud.

Her Palestinian origin is clearly expressed in her works depicting the land, trees, and the soil of her country. More on Juhaina Habibi Kandalaft

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01 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Hosni Radwan's City of Paradoxes 6, with Footnotes, #76

Hosni Radwan

City of Paradoxes 6, 2022

Charcoal, gold leaf and acrylic on canvas

29 1/10 × 20 9/10 in | 74 × 53 cm

Private collection

The city of Jerusalem is the focus of Hosni Radwan’s latest series of artworks. Using charcoal, acrylic, and gold leaf on canvas, he attempts to express his fascination with a city haunted by shades of paradoxes.

The minute Radwan saw Jerusalem, after living in the diaspora most of his life, he fell in love with it. He was fascinated with the place, its beauty, and contradictions; the little arches, the oriental style of architecture, the smells, the colors, the noises, and the unique way of living. Jerusalem brought the artist closer to safety and belonging as it carried him back to his childhood in the old city of Baghdad (the place where his family was displaced in 1948). The two places have many things in common, which appear on the surface of his paintings as childish sparkles, cold grey corners, little ancient white domes, golden holy places as well as pink stones. More on this painting

Hosni Radwan was born in Baghdad in 1955. He studied fine arts at the University of Baghdad, specializing in graphics. He held a number of solo exhibitions in Iraq, Lebanon, Cyprus, Japan, and Palestine. Radwan took part in international biennales, including those of Berlin, Cairo, and Sharjah. He left Baghdad in 1979 and headed to Beirut, where he worked in graphic design and journalism while continuing to draw and paint, using his talents to express his position vis-à-vis the cause of his people. Radwan’s works have special characteristics as they do not include realistic or political imitations. Hosni Radwan seeks to photograph the external world in all of its spaces and its various states and situations, using techniques that go beyond colour and different materials, thus forming a world of his own. Details of the scenes in Baghdad have played a major role in his artistic experience, inspiring his work that has spanned over 25 years of ongoing production. He mixes acrylics with sand, wood and paper, and other visible and tangible objects, creating mounds surrounding his works and their special, abstract world. More on Hosni Radwan

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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Frigate of the Rais Hamid chased by these ships of the Americans, with Footnotes #75

Unknown artist

Frigate of the Rais Hamid chased by these ships of the Americans

Ink and watercolour on paper

H. 14 5/8 in. (37.1 cm), W. 19 5/16 in. (49 cm)

 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Arabic inscription at bottom of the painting identifies the scene as the Battle of Cape Gata– a devastating blow to the Barbary forces by the American navy in the year 1815. At the center, the Algerian ship Mashudu is identifiable by its bright red flag at the stern. Nine American ships have surrounded the Algerian vessel as billowing clouds of smoke indicate the exchange of cannon fire.

When the smoke cleared, among the dead was Algerian corsair Rais Hamidu (1773–1815) a relentless pirate who was the focus of the American attack. Hamidu was targeted for his role in leading raids on American merchant vessels in the Mediterranean, and demanding ransom for their crews. More on this painting

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12 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Nuri Iyem's three graces, with Footnotes #74

NURI IYEM, 1915-2005, Turkish

UNTITLED, c. 1970

Oil on canvas,

80 by 120 cm.; 31½ by 47¼ in.

Private collection

"The trio portraits are a theme meticulously guarded and cherished by Iyem within his oeuvre. The three graces of mythology who transform the judgement of Paris to the screams of Troy roam through the paintings of Botticelli and Rubens to reach the modern day while for Iyem, these female portraits also represent the wholesomeness of the Anatolian woman condensed into a representation of three figures, as if to imbue these graces with a certain irony. The women depicted in duos, trios or in more crowded compositions would be looking at different directions adding another level of depth to a two dimensional canvas, while brimming with further meaning and affluence." Kiymet Giray, Nuri Iyem, Istanbul 1998, p. 157

Sold for 32,500 GBP on March 2020

NURI IYEM, 1915-2005, Turkish

ÜÇ ELTILER (THREE SISTERS-IN-LAW), c. 1960s-1970s.

Oil on hardboard, in artist's frame

61.5 by 41.5cm.; 24¼ by 16¼in.

Private collection

Sold for 10,000 GBP on October 2019

NURI IYEM, 1915-2005, Turkish

Three Beauties, c. 1970's

Oil on canvas

20x80

Private collection

Anatolian women, who are the main characters of many of Nuri İyem's paintings, always have a sadness in their eyes. The eyes of the Anatolian woman in her works resemble the eyes of the artist's elder sister, whom she lost at an early age. More on this painting

NURI IYEM, 1915-2005, Turkish

 Üç Güzeller / Three Graces, c. 1970's

Oil on board

61.5x42

Private collection

NURI IYEM, 1915-2005, Turkish

Portrait, c. 1976

Oil on canvas

34x42

Private collection

NURI IYEM, 1915-2005, Turkish

Three Beauties, c. 1979

Oil on canvas

50x50

Private collection

He observes the Anatolian people, their internal processes, migration from the village to the city, shantytown life, fishermen, and perceives Anatolia as a 'woman'. For this reason, emotions are presented to us in a naive way in the paintings he produces. The most striking feature in the portraits of women is the mastery of the reality of society. More on Nuri Iyem

NURI IYEM, 1915-2005, Turkish

Figürlü peyzaj - Köylü kadınl/ Figured landscape - Peasant women, c. 1976

Oil on canvas

180x100

Private collection

The artist, who walked on the path of emotional realism in his early years, made extensive and successful researches in cubism and abstract geometric fields. The artist, who produces satisfying works in the figurative field with his unique style and personality, is one of the strongest painters of his generation.

NURI IYEM, 1915-2005, Turkish

Three Beauties, c. 1975

Oil on canvas

151x100

Private collection

NURI IYEM, 1915-2005, Turkish

Three women portrait

Oil on canvas

200x100

Private collection

NURI IYEM, 1915-2005, Turkish

Three Beauties, c. 1976

Oil on canvas

 45x36

Private collection

NURI IYEM, 1915-2005, Turkish

Three Beauties in the Suburbs, c. 1960

 Oil on chipboard

 30x30,

Private collection

NURI IYEM, 1915-2005, Turkish

Gelincik Abla'nın Sığırcıkları/ Weasel Sister's Starlings, c. 1999

Oil on duralite

72 x 56 cm

Private collection

Sold for 740.000 TL on 05.2023

Nuri İyem, (1915 - d. 18 June 2005 ) was a leading figure in the Turkish painting and social-realistic art movement.

Nuri İyem was born in Istanbul in 1915. During his childhood he used to paint walls with charcoal. Because of his father's job as a health official, İyem spent his childhood in various cities of Anatolia. After finishing primary school in Mardin, he returned back to Istanbul to attend secondary school and he studied at Vefa and Pertevniyal Highschools.

His passion to be a painter was forcing his dreams through the coasts of Fındıklı where the Fine Arts Academy stood. . Those dreams would be concluded with his enrollment at the Academy in spite of his parents' desire to see their child as a doctor.

Nuri İyem was one of the most important living masters of Turkish painting. He has produced, exhibited, written and discussed art without a break, in spite of all the difficulties to exist as an artist during the social and cultural course of the Republic period. Nuri has crowned his life with many precious art works and his own story is not just an autobiographical representation of an artist, but also an expression of real struggle and honour. More on Nuri İyem

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07 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Nuri Iyem's Ordinary Lovers, with Footnotes, #73

Nuri Iyem, 1915 - 2005

Sıradan Sevdalılar (Ordinary Lovers), c. 1970

Oil on board

38 by 45 cm. 15 by 17¾ in.

Private collection

Nuri Iyem, 1915 - 2005

Sıradan Sevdalılar (Ordinary Lovers), c. 1970

Oil on canvas

100x70

Private collection

Nuri Iyem (Turkish, 1915–2005)

Figüratif , c. 1985

Oil on canvas

23 x 29 cm. (9.1 x 11.4 in.)

Private collection

Nuri Iyem, 1915 - 2005

Sıradan Sevdalılar (Ordinary Lovers), c. 1999

Oil on board

100x80

Private collection

Nuri Iyem, 1915 - 2005

Sıradan Sevdalılar (Ordinary Lovers), c. 1970

Oil on board

50x50

Private collection

Nuri Iyem, 1915 - 2005

Husband and wife, c. 1998

Oil on Duralit

80x60

Private collection

Nuri Iyem, 1915 - 2005

Husband and wife, c. 1975

Oil on Duralit

59x49

Private collection

Nuri İyem, (1915 - d. 18 June 2005 ) was a leading figure in the Turkish painting and social-realistic art movement.

Nuri İyem was born in Istanbul in 1915. During his childhood he used to paint walls with charcoal. Because of his father's job as a health official, İyem spent his childhood in various cities of Anatolia. After finishing primary school in Mardin, he returned back to Istanbul to attend secondary school and he studied at Vefa and Pertevniyal Highschools.

His passion to be a painter was forcing his dreams through the coasts of Fındıklı where the Fine Arts Academy stood. . Those dreams would be concluded with his enrollment at the Academy in spite of his parents' desire to see their child as a doctor.

Nuri İyem was one of the most important living masters of Turkish painting. He has produced, exhibited, written and discussed art without a break, in spite of all the difficulties to exist as an artist during the social and cultural course of the Republic period. Nuri has crowned his life with many precious art works and his own story is not just an autobiographical representation of an artist, but also an expression of real struggle and honour. More on Nuri İyem

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