tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19869448447761183932024-03-27T09:25:09.712-07:00Middle East ArtistsHenry Zaidanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13136406056367353328noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986944844776118393.post-6469171234968841032024-03-27T09:24:00.000-07:002024-03-27T09:24:22.897-07:0001 photograph, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Imad Abu Shtayyah's We shall return, with Footnotes #100<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqc2UGLe6r6-JNSWMqprxvezdOFmyR4wU9NLkHQLcvwX44tymlqSELqj9n2AUytAJbk0Y7DyQRBEdW56BRn8JRG2BSyGMthfFXywC1DUVxsJyeVF6faCsuVVB0C86XfKMHM6hJB0rpLyQus1_FAQWayLQuHikJ66Hw7Z0yZfuNRz-4xvV6204mRpds00s/s974/IMAD%20ABU%20SHTAYYAH,%20Palestine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="760" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqc2UGLe6r6-JNSWMqprxvezdOFmyR4wU9NLkHQLcvwX44tymlqSELqj9n2AUytAJbk0Y7DyQRBEdW56BRn8JRG2BSyGMthfFXywC1DUVxsJyeVF6faCsuVVB0C86XfKMHM6hJB0rpLyQus1_FAQWayLQuHikJ66Hw7Z0yZfuNRz-4xvV6204mRpds00s/s16000/IMAD%20ABU%20SHTAYYAH,%20Palestine.jpg" /></a></div><b style="font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Imad Abu Shtayyah</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>We shall return, c. 2014</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Oil on canvas</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">182 x 142 cm</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">DALLOUL ART FOUNDATION</span></div></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> <br />The painting shows the ruins of Gaza morphing into the torso of a Palestinian woman. This woman – Gaza – is rising to gaze into an expectant sky, body in motion as though she has just picked herself up off the ground. The strength, resilience, and determination communicated by this work are indicative of Abu Shtayyah’s oeuvre as a whole.<br /><br /><b>Imad Abu Shtayyah</b> is a Palestinian artist born in 1965, in the Jerash refugee camp near Amman, Jordan. Raised in poverty by parents who had fled Palestine during the atrocities of 1948, Abu Shtayyah showed interest in art at an early age, using it as a means to cope with the difficulties of the life he witnessed. <br /><br />Abu Shtayyah has no formal academic training in the arts. Working in two-dimensional media, he first experimented with the traditional materials that were available to him, such as oil painting, watercolor, and pastel. Later, he incorporated digital illustration into his repertoire. As a painter, his enthusiasm for the works of Salvador Dali and Francisco Goya is apparent in his romantic use of symbolism and saturated color, and in the surreal fluidity, he creates between humans, animals, and landscapes.<br /><br />Abu Shtayya frequently personifies Palestine as a woman wearing a long traditional dress known as the thobe, embellished with the intricate embroidery that has come to represent pride in Palestinian heritage. Though he depicts his figures with meticulous realism. In keeping with Palestinian nationalist ideology, the artist depicts women as the “keepers of culture,” responsible for raising subsequent generations with respect for their heritage.<br /><br />Imad Abu Shtayyah still resides and works in Amman. He has held exhibitions in Ramallah, New York, Sharjah, Cairo, and Gaza, and much of his work is exhibited on websites including Fine Art America, The Palestine Poster Project Archives, and the artist’s personal Facebook account. In 2018, one of his paintings was chosen to be represented on a stamp in Uruguay. <a href="https://dafbeirut.org/en/imad-abu-shtayyah">More on Imad Abu Shtayyah</a></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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The Palestine Poster Project Archives</span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /> <div><b>On May 15, 1976</b> a 17-year-old Lina was shot and killed by an IDF soldier while walking home from school in Nablus.</div><div><br /></div><div>According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Israeli authorities stated that a stray bullet hit Lina when a soldier’s rifle went off accidentally. An investigation into the incident was ordered, with IDF forces reiterating their commitment to only use live ammunition when their own lives were in danger. <a href="https://thepalestineproject.medium.com/lina-al-nabulsis-story-385eb7fc8dd3">More on this painting</a></div><br /><b>Lina Nabulsi</b> is an international student from Jordan. She is currently pursuing a dual degree program in Public Health and Global Policy. Lina worked for a while as a research executive, working on projects related to education, gender issues, and women’s and children’s health with well known organizations such as USAID, UNICEF, UNDP, and Abt Associates. She also did a short internship with Human Rights Watch in DC. Her main interests are in social development, poverty, refugee affairs, and the never ending conflict in the Middle East... <a href="https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/directory/lina-nabulsi/">The University of Texas at Austin</a><br /><br />In his early years the painter, Mansour was jailed twice under the pretense that his works were inciting violence. “They didn’t tell me that I was arrested because I was an artist, but I think they wanted to intimidate me,” he said of the two-week-long interrogations. “They put a bag on my head; I was handcuffed behind my back; I was beaten, the same as what everyone else who is imprisoned goes through. I didn’t pose any threat in terms of security — they just didn’t like what we were doing.” <a href="https://hyperallergic.com/860445/sliman-mansour-preserves-palestinian-history-through-art/">Hyperallergic<br /></a><br />Born in a little village near Ramallah in 1947, <b>Suleiman Mansour</b> maintained a great attachment to his native rural hometown and its customs, painting portraits of his relatives since his youngest age. In the 1970s, he took part in a thorough research project on the folkloric heritage of Palestinian culture, an initiative that profoundly shaped his subsequent active involvement in the Palestinian art movement. Preoccupied with the preservation and publication of traditional artworks, Mansour aimed to safeguard indigenous Palestinian culture while offering native forms of inspiration to new generations of artists and influencing contemporary art. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliman_Mansour">More on Suleiman Mansour</a></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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While I admire the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler, I also believe that collective nonviolent activism plays a fundamental role in changing pre-existing perceptions. My work predominantly consists of representative activism. "It is a powerful instrument of non-verbal expression, and why not use it if it can be a catalyst for social change?" <a href="https://poramoralarte-exposito.blogspot.com/2018/02/hayv-kahraman_27.html">More on this painting</a><br /><br /><b>Hayv Kahraman</b> is an Iraqi artist born in 1981. At the age of 11, her family left Baghdad during the Gulf War and settled in Sweden for several years, where her status of refugee became a catalytic experience for her artistic practice. Having studied graphic design at the Accademia di Arte e Design di Firenze, Italy, Kahraman uses a variety of media including sculpture, drawing and painting to address difficult issues relative to gender inequalities, war and the migrant experience. Channeling refined aesthetics inspired from Islamic arts, Art Nouveau and Japanese paintings to confront the viewer with controversial scenes, the artist engages with the notion of femininity in Middle Eastern cultures. Her approach to gender roles and female identity encapsulates how women are persecuted in their own culture through systematic submission to the male gaze, physicality and politics. <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/20th-century-art-middle-east-3/persian-couple-2?locale=en">More on Hayv Kahraman</a></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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The artist uses various supports and mediums to document and explore the cultural and social changes around her.</div><div><br /></div><div>Her work replicates the tumult, angst and cacophony that everyday life in the city is fraught with. Assi's use of pallid colors, jagged angular outlines and intricate layering, imbues inanimate objects, landscapes and buildings, with the emotional burdens of their inhabitants. The artist's central concerns evolve around issues of dual identities, multiplicity, and the potential for residing in this 'in-between' space. M<a href="https://www.bonhams.com/auction/27201/lot/10/zena-assi-liban-nee-en-1974-a-storm-is-brewing-my-beautiful-refugees-84-x-60-cm-chaque-panneau-acrylic-and-collage-on-canvas-six-panelssigned-dated-and-titled/">ore on this painting</a></div><br />Born in Lebanon, in 1974, <b>Zena Assi</b> lives and works in London.<br /><br />She graduated with honors from l’Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts (ALBA), worked in advertising and taught in different universities.<br /><br />Her contemporary work draws inspiration from the relations and conflicts between the individual and his spatial environment, society and its surroundings.<br /><br />The artist uses various supports and mediums to document and explore the cultural and social changes and put on record our urban contemporary environment’s imprint as well as the impact of our society’s ideologies and political tendencies. Her work takes shape in installation, drawing, etching, experimental animation, sculpture and mainly painting. Themes that are central to her vision include present-day issues, like migration and the relation between memories and people on the move.<br /><br />Many of her pieces are repeatedly shown in different international auction houses (Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Bonhams and Phillips) and are part of various public as well as private collections.<br /><br />Throughout her artistic practice, her work has won prizes including the Sunny Dupree Family Award for a woman Artist at the 2020 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, 2020 – the Rosemary & Co Award at the SWA show, London, 2018 and the Special Jury Prize of the XXIX of the Autumn Salon of the Sursock Museum, Beirut, 2009. <a href="https://zenaassi.com/biography">More on Zena Assi</a></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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(94 x 140cm.)</div><div style="text-align: center;">Private collection</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Sold for GBP 37,250 in Oct 2008</b></div><div><br /></div><div>The present photograph belongs to an early series titled 'Women of Allah', in which Neshat depicts Islamic women wearing chadors and tattooed inscriptions of decorative patterns, devotional prayers, or poems in Farsi. She uses the Islamic veil to explore and deconstruct stereotypes of Muslim women as oppressed by religion but also empowered by their rejection of the Western imperialistic gaze. In this visually striking image executed in 1995, the woman conceals her face behind a rifle, which, with its masculine connotation, sharply contrasts with the erotic undertone of the decorative patterns. The weapon and the Islamic script also allude to Western perceptions of Islam as both impenetrable and threatening - an interpretation that is even more poignant in the current geopolitical context. <a href="https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5128521">More on this photograph</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Shirin Neshat (born March 26, 1957) </b>is an </span>Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography She is the fourth of five children of wealthy parents, brought up in the religious town of Qazvin in north-western Iran. Neshat's father was a physician and her mother a homemaker. Neshat said that her father, "fantasized about the west, romanticized the west, and slowly rejected all of his own values; both my parents did. What happened, I think, was that their identity slowly dissolved, they exchanged it for comfort. It served their class”. As a part of Neshat’s “Westernization” she was enrolled in a Catholic boarding school in Tehran. Through her father’s acceptance of Western ideologies came an acceptance of a form of western feminism. Neshat’s father encouraged each of his daughters to “be an individual, to take risks, to learn, to see the world", and he sent his daughters as well as his sons to college to receive their higher education.[4] Through her grandparents, her mother's parents, Neshat learned traditional religious values. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirin_Neshat">More on Shirin Neshat</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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 that summer. </span><a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/22/ijiv-a22.html">More on this painting</a></div><br /> Marwan Sahmarani's epic, and monumental mixed media work recalls the murals and illuminated manuscripts of the Medieval Islamic world and their grand depictions of the bloody territorial conflicts that marred the history of the region. Painted while the artist was escaping the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Amidst the melee a brown faced figure looks on perplexed, his neck lodged in the vice-like grip of another soldier. This figure is none other than the artist himself; by stepping into the composition, he not only ceases to be an observer, but by placing himself in the historical landscape of the battles that have scarred the Middle East, he reminds us that not only is he the present victim of conflict, but also the product of a society whose citizens perpetually bear the scars of a society tainted by centuries of war. M<a href="https://www.bonhams.com/auction/25686/lot/6/marwan-sahmarani-lebanon-born-1970-the-war-of-august-22-28/">ore on this painting</a><br /><br /><b>Marwan Sahmarani</b> (b. 1970) Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1970, graduated from the Atelier Met de Penninghen in Paris, France in 1989. He derives his inspiration from the themes of art history, surging between his Western cultural education and his oriental identity. Islamic and Mesopotamian art with its iconography and history mixes in with Greco-Roman influences as well as the paintings of the great master including Uccello, Rubens and Picasso. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sahmarani has participated in a variety of solo exhibitions in London, Dubai, Canada and Beirut as well as group exhibitions in Munich, Washington D.C. and Mexico. His most recent group museum exhibitions are Told/Untold/Retold at the Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar in 2010 and The Feast of the Damned at the Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA in 2010. Sahmarani was also one of the three recipients of the prestigious Abraaj Capital Prize in 2010. <a href="https://artiana.com/Artist/Marwan-Sahmarani">More on Marwan Sahmarani</a></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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Future's Guards, c. 2020</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Oil on canvas</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">130 x 195cm (51 3/16 x 76 3/4in).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Private collection</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Sold for €15,300 in Oct 2021</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">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. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_expulsion_and_flight#:~:text=In%201948%2C%20more%20than%20700,the%20Partition%20Plan%20for%20Palestine." style="font-family: arial;">More on Palestinian expulsion and flight</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP4qfD22SXORcMEMhaa3FrkSVxwMQilk3sl3NS9OKpp-ysMQz1pRjW6VY75Rhiq2kdR14SmwsERUBmA_L3HoYM9GyqofRRjDyzauik7Ru0aMTpjbm-1O-cGuC8xT9gvL2MU0-UqRlRIIWDllqn9kObIBbi0cGpuaggf3MPNP5PWeYoG11agVBtm0F-vCQ/s771/Anas%20Albraehe's%20Bab%20Alhawa%20-%20Gate%20of%20Exile.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="771" height="798" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP4qfD22SXORcMEMhaa3FrkSVxwMQilk3sl3NS9OKpp-ysMQz1pRjW6VY75Rhiq2kdR14SmwsERUBmA_L3HoYM9GyqofRRjDyzauik7Ru0aMTpjbm-1O-cGuC8xT9gvL2MU0-UqRlRIIWDllqn9kObIBbi0cGpuaggf3MPNP5PWeYoG11agVBtm0F-vCQ/w804-h798/Anas%20Albraehe's%20Bab%20Alhawa%20-%20Gate%20of%20Exile.jpeg" width="804" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Anas Albraehe (Syria, born 1991)</b></div><div><b>Bab Alhawa - Gate of Exile, c. 2021</b></div><div>Oil on canvas</div><div>149 x 149cm (58 11/16 x 58 11/16in).</div><div>Private collection</div></div> <br /><b>Sold for €14,080 in Jul 2023</b><br /><br />Born in Syria in 1991, <b>Anas Albraehe</b> is a multidisciplinary artist focused on painting and theatre. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Painting and Drawing from Damascus University of Fine Arts in Syria in 2014. After the beginning of the war in Syria, he moved to Lebanon where he obtained a Master's degree in Psychology and Art Therapy from the Lebanese University in 2015. His recent work combines his interests in the fields of art and psychology to produce a portrait that explores the psychology of color and the gaze of the Other. Anas Albraehe's solo exhibition, entitled Manal, was held at Artspace Hamra in Lebanon and Wadi Finan in Jordan in 2017. He also participated in two group exhibitions at Al-Bareh Gallery in Bahrain in 2015 and Artspace Hamra in 2016. Anas Albraehe participated in SAFIR TA'AROF 2017, an art workshop within the framework of the Sharjah Art Biennale, 2016-2017. He exhibited two series at the Agial Gallery in Beirut, The Dream Catcher in 2018 and Mother Earth in 2020.<br /><br />Anas Albraehe has worked on several successive series of paintings, each time taking as subject precise elements of his environment in Syria and Lebanon. He is inspired by the people around him but also by memories of his home region. <a href="https://www.anitarogersgallery.com/artists/anas-albraehe">More on Anas Albraehe</a></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. It is exhibited in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vM5jrQ43zGsB8vVdzkx4XrQbA9HZy76WmsL2f0dP2hp40YVXb21KXWE754H69TLZ0y_5bMAdUsffqm4gkOp_QgokGf0ymDzw-CEphLTr0xXIhCdlOS52AvUO5-T8ocS5vT3INe7P1ZRsdpdDEA-leIx9GOF3rLKMmwAHNTZ0Pnd-h_S01umV_zsmFHQ/s1024/Guernica.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="1024" height="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vM5jrQ43zGsB8vVdzkx4XrQbA9HZy76WmsL2f0dP2hp40YVXb21KXWE754H69TLZ0y_5bMAdUsffqm4gkOp_QgokGf0ymDzw-CEphLTr0xXIhCdlOS52AvUO5-T8ocS5vT3INe7P1ZRsdpdDEA-leIx9GOF3rLKMmwAHNTZ0Pnd-h_S01umV_zsmFHQ/w824-h367/Guernica.jpg" width="824" /></a></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Pablo Picasso</b></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Guernica, c. 1937</b></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Oil on canvas</div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">3.49 × 7.77 m.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></div></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The complex painting received mixed reviews when it was shown in the Spanish Republic Pavilion at the world’s fair in Paris, but it became an icon as it traveled the world in ensuing years, raising controversies on its meaning and its rightful home. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Guernica-by-Picasso">More on Guernica</a><br /><br />Born in 1977, in Damascus, <b>Oussama Diab</b> 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.<br /><br />His early works amassed paintings in a neo-expressionist style resonating with the tense ridicule language surrounding famed Jean Michel Basquiat's works. Onto large-scale canvases full of dispersed drawings and thick layers of paint in intense colors, the artist embraced iconography and primitivism with a flair of pop art. Diab re-appropriated Leonardo da Vinci's sixteenth-century Mona Lisa, for instance, adopting a Pop art approach – specifically by reintroducing identifiable imagery. Diab would add props and signs into his paintings, making them more relatable to the Palestinian experience. In this case, he would envelop Mona Lisa's face with a kufiyah, or at times she would hold a Kalashnikov.<br /><br />In recent years, Diab applied the deconstructed figuration of Cubism to his archetypal characters painted in fresh pastel colors. He portrayed figures with intersecting planes that collide as rigid bodies, mirroring the surrounding environment. In reaction to the turmoil in the Arab world and the fragmented state of society forged by political conflicts and migration, Diab depicts fractured bodies within empty, isolated settings. In his neo-cubist paintings, a couple found in his previous works, become the center of attraction. The artist sets his characters against decorative and ornamental backgrounds that seem to extend out of his canvas with no beginning and no end. Although Diab's figurations attain a level of elegance and grace, they possess intense melancholy. <a href="https://dafbeirut.org/en/oussama-diab#:~:text=through%20various...-,Born%20in%201977%2C%20in%20Damascus%2C%20Oussama%20Diab%20is%20a%20Palestinian,techniques%20in%20a%20single%20composition.">More on Oussama Diab</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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(55.1 x 78.7 in.)</div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Private collection</span></div></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /> <div>This painting is based on the Creation of Adam, also known as The Creation of Man is a fresco painting by Italian artist Michelangelo, which forms part of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, painted c. 1508–1512. It illustrates the Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God gives life to Adam, the first man.</div><div><br /></div><div>The painting has been reproduced in countless imitations and parodies.[4] Michelangelo's Creation of Adam is one of the most replicated religious paintings of all time. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creation_of_Adam">More on The Creation of Adam</a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCc5VVRn73aV-Whyx6wduh1NMpGUO5VRAV3cKV7K2YcW4U8rX9sIrUJmXSxiAsqFz_eZFukilwlLkayA6Y66y1M3Poqzxlx7gEKh7uBC1mNZawEvgHP2sBtRLlgqbrDPQ3KjNNGjoeIwZ0GGq3B8snyOjTNt7cvvKTDWcnS85kR_UaNTPz0eWA9uXhyphenhyphen04/s800/Creation%20of%20Adam.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCc5VVRn73aV-Whyx6wduh1NMpGUO5VRAV3cKV7K2YcW4U8rX9sIrUJmXSxiAsqFz_eZFukilwlLkayA6Y66y1M3Poqzxlx7gEKh7uBC1mNZawEvgHP2sBtRLlgqbrDPQ3KjNNGjoeIwZ0GGq3B8snyOjTNt7cvvKTDWcnS85kR_UaNTPz0eWA9uXhyphenhyphen04/w939-h426/Creation%20of%20Adam.jpg" width="939" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Michelangelo (1475–1564)</b></div><div><b>The Creation of Adam, circa 1511</b></div><div>Fresco</div><div>height: 230.1 cm (90.5 in); width: 480.1 cm (15.7 ft)</div><div>Sistine Chapel ceiling</div><div><br /></div></div><div>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.</div><div><br /></div><div>His early works amassed paintings in a neo-expressionist style resonating with the tense ridicule language surrounding famed Jean Michel Basquiat's works. Onto large-scale canvases full of dispersed drawings and thick layers of paint in intense colors, the artist embraced iconography and primitivism with a flair of pop art. Diab re-appropriated Leonardo da Vinci's sixteenth-century Mona Lisa, for instance, adopting a Pop art approach – specifically by reintroducing identifiable imagery. Diab would add props and signs into his paintings, making them more relatable to the Palestinian experience. In this case, he would envelop Mona Lisa's face with a kufiyah, or at times she would hold a Kalashnikov.</div><div><br /></div><div>In recent years, Diab applied the deconstructed figuration of Cubism to his archetypal characters painted in fresh pastel colors. He portrayed figures with intersecting planes that collide as rigid bodies, mirroring the surrounding environment. In reaction to the turmoil in the Arab world and the fragmented state of society forged by political conflicts and migration, Diab depicts fractured bodies within empty, isolated settings. In his neo-cubist paintings, a couple found in his previous works, become the center of attraction. The artist sets his characters against decorative and ornamental backgrounds that seem to extend out of his canvas with no beginning and no end. Although Diab's figurations attain a level of elegance and grace, they possess intense melancholy. <a href="https://dafbeirut.org/en/oussama-diab#:~:text=through%20various...-,Born%20in%201977%2C%20in%20Damascus%2C%20Oussama%20Diab%20is%20a%20Palestinian,techniques%20in%20a%20single%20composition.">More on Oussama Diab</a></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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(95 x 95cm.)</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Private collection</div></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><b> Sold for USD 103,000 in Oct 2007</b><br /><br /><div>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 and the absence of extraneous detail. Although reminiscent of Russian social realist painting, through his humane treatment of his subjects he conferred them with more individuality and pathos.</div><div><br /></div><div>When The Six-Day War with Israel broke out in June 1967, soon ending with the occupation of Arab territories, he fell into deep depression, and destroyed the thirty works in the exhibition and stopped painting for several years. Kayyali went to live in Aleppo in seclusion and eventually resumed working.</div><div><br /></div><div>The present painting is unique, in that it is the only one with such strong subject matter to have been executed after Kayyali destroyed all his political paintings following the 1967 war. It deals directly with the suffering caused by the the 1973 conflict. <a href="https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4972381">More on this painting</a></div></span><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Louay Kayali (1934–1978) </b>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 and the two would share a friendship for the rest of Kayali's life. Al-Hariri would become his mentor as he was for artist Fateh Moudarres (Below) that Hariri introduced to Kayali in 1955. Moudarress and Kayali would together represent Syrian modern art at the Venice Biennial Fair. He suffered from depression and died in 1978 from burns incurred from his bed catching fire, reportedly from a cigarette. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louay_Kayali">More on Louay Kayali</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Images are copyright of their respective owners, assignees or others. 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Ads are shown only to compensate the hosting expenses.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">If you enjoyed this post, please share with friends and family.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thank you for visiting my blog and also for liking its posts and pages.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Please note that the content of this post primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">.</span></span></p>Henry Zaidanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13136406056367353328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986944844776118393.post-2922942129744638412024-03-05T13:01:00.000-08:002024-03-05T13:01:38.432-08:0001 Painting, Middle East Artists, Oussama Diab's Monroe Al Jadida (The New Monroe), with Footnotes #92<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwfXTI-rhy_v7g6sCOsQ1sSW1NeobC7F-hzoPaox3FjyoyPqXrUko1q09YIoLrwc63-nYnVQ_E-ip1TKmWdJyYUAN0tQzHI3wYwm4amKPPqXAQ7pmpQu_idO-Na6PDBliwUTWTt9HGP43APriOjy9hCHpeCCzXhHr7sm9egxn1xIZXMU2AfBrjLXH-lHk/s936/Oussama%20Diab's%20Monroe%20Al%20Jadida%20(The%20New%20Monroe).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="936" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwfXTI-rhy_v7g6sCOsQ1sSW1NeobC7F-hzoPaox3FjyoyPqXrUko1q09YIoLrwc63-nYnVQ_E-ip1TKmWdJyYUAN0tQzHI3wYwm4amKPPqXAQ7pmpQu_idO-Na6PDBliwUTWTt9HGP43APriOjy9hCHpeCCzXhHr7sm9egxn1xIZXMU2AfBrjLXH-lHk/s16000/Oussama%20Diab's%20Monroe%20Al%20Jadida%20(The%20New%20Monroe).jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div><b>Oussama Diab (Palestinian, b. 1977)</b></div><div><b>Monroe Al Jadida (The New Monroe), c. 2013</b></div><div>Acrylic on canvas</div><div>47 3/8 x 47¼in. (120.5 x 120cm.)</div><div>Painted in 2013</div></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Private collection</div> <br /><b>Sold for USD 10,000 in Nov 2013</b><br /><br />Born in 1977, in Damascus, <b>Oussama Diab</b> 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.<br /><br />His early works amassed paintings in a neo-expressionist style resonating with the tense ridicule language surrounding famed Jean Michel Basquiat's works. Onto large-scale canvases full of dispersed drawings and thick layers of paint in intense colors, the artist embraced iconography and primitivism with a flair of pop art. Diab re-appropriated Leonardo da Vinci's sixteenth-century Mona Lisa, for instance, adopting a Pop art approach – specifically by reintroducing identifiable imagery. Diab would add props and signs into his paintings, making them more relatable to the Palestinian experience. In this case, he would envelop Mona Lisa's face with a kufiyah, or at times she would hold a Kalashnikov.<br /><br />In recent years, Diab applied the deconstructed figuration of Cubism to his archetypal characters painted in fresh pastel colors. He portrayed figures with intersecting planes that collide as rigid bodies, mirroring the surrounding environment. In reaction to the turmoil in the Arab world and the fragmented state of society forged by political conflicts and migration, Diab depicts fractured bodies within empty, isolated settings. In his neo-cubist paintings, a couple found in his previous works, become the center of attraction. The artist sets his characters against decorative and ornamental backgrounds that seem to extend out of his canvas with no beginning and no end. Although Diab's figurations attain a level of elegance and grace, they possess intense melancholy. <a href="https://dafbeirut.org/en/oussama-diab#:~:text=through%20various...-,Born%20in%201977%2C%20in%20Damascus%2C%20Oussama%20Diab%20is%20a%20Palestinian,techniques%20in%20a%20single%20composition.">More on Oussama Diab</a><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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His illustrations were seen on magazine covers of Akher Saa, El Risala El Gedida and the child magazine Ali Baba. <br /><br />He was also the illustrator for many writings such as, the stories of Youssef El Sebai, El Gumhuria series "Omar Makram's Life" - which ran in 340 daily episodes - and for Naguib Mahfouz's novel Awlad Haretna, published in series in Al Ahram. <a href="https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23058/lot/71/">More on El Hussein Fawzi</a></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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(45 x 61cm.)</div><div>Private collection</div><div><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Sold for USD 161,000 in Oct 2014</b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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 only known to his family and friends, for whom he had painted many portraits and commissioned works.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This early work shows a conflicted, young Arab nationalist fighting for his country. By depicting this dynamic and expressive image of the soldiers in the midst of action, Kayyali places himself amongst his fellow citizens in the battle field. By doing so, the artist brings his patriotism and involvement in the conflict to the foreground, an involvement that was rather psychological than physical. Kayyali thus embraces his role as a war artist, but finds inspiration in the historical facts as well as his own imagination, distinguishing himself from the artistically gifted soldiers who were deployed on the battle fields to depict and document the military in action. <a href="https://middleeastartists.blogspot.com/2024/03/01-painting-middle-east-artists-art-of_74.html">More on this painting</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Louay Kayali (1934–1978) </b>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 and the two would share a friendship for the rest of Kayali's life. Al-Hariri would become his mentor as he was for artist Fateh Moudarres (Below) that Hariri introduced to Kayali in 1955. Moudarress and Kayali would together represent Syrian modern art at the Venice Biennial Fair. He suffered from depression and died in 1978 from burns incurred from his bed catching fire, reportedly from a cigarette. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louay_Kayali">More on Louay Kayali</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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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 of a boy by several figures that are in various grief-stricken stances. They are harshly etched with jagged and symmetrical tendencies that emulate contemporary Soviet drawings. The facial features of the people are grimly set and the bold though austere colors typify the visual language of the artist’s anguish. <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/20th-century-art-middle-east-l19228/lot.31.html">More on this painting</a><br /><br />The career of the Iraqi modern master <b>Mahmoud Sabri</b> has followed a similar trajectory to that of a number of Middle Eastern artists in exile. Largely ignored for a considerable part of his life for political and personal reasons, his importance has only latterly come to light, and his following and appreciation suddenly taken on a life of its own. Born in 1927 in Baghdad, Sabri pursued a degree in social sciences at Loughborough University in the UK. While in England, his interest in painting developed and he attended evening art classes, making his artistic debut in an exhibition held at the Iraqi Embassy in 1947. Following university he made a successful career in banking, becoming deputy head of the largest national bank in Iraq at the age of 32. He had meanwhile met with the group of artists that was to eventually form the Societé Primitive, including Khalid Al Qassab, Faik Hassan and others, exhibiting with them at the Al-Qassab residence in 1952. Unlike the Jama't Al Fan Al Hadith, including Jewad Selim and Shakir Hassan Al Said, Sabri was committed to a more democratic ideology that everyone's cultural heritage should be incorporated and adopted as his own. Sabri’s education had sensitised him to social issues and with his growing love of art, he soon resigned from the bank to take responsibility for establishing the first Exhibitions Department in Iraq. His political beliefs however remained a central theme throughout most of his artistic career, and he started to focus on painting. Typical of many artists from the region, including those from the neighbouring countries of Iran and Russia, he was socio-politically engaged in a region where artists felt compelled to serve a purpose and art was considered a tool – just like literature – for expressing political concerns and speaking out against repression. Well-read in Marxist thought on art and culture, Sabri naturally gravitated towards Realism and became an active writer and intellectual. <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/20th-century-art-middle-east-l18226/lot.13.html">More on Mahmoud Sabri</a></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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Indeed, the portrayed fighter is anonymous. Conversely, he wears one of the most recognizable masks and scarves in contemporary history. They are iconographic symbols of rebellion. The keffiyeh, historically considered the traditional Palestinian headdress, has become a glorified symbol of Palestinian resistance in Arab culture. Conversely, it has also come to represent Islamic extremism for the West. Similarly, the Guy Fawkes mask grew to represent conflicting values and beliefs. It started with an association to Fawkes’ treason, and through the power of narration, became an international symbol of revolution against injustice. As such the attire of Baalbaki’s figure gives him an instant collective identity, even when his individual one is unknown. <a href="https://dafbeirut.org/en/ayman-baalbaki/works/949-233787-untitled">More on this painting</a></div><br /><b>Ayman Baalbaki </b>is a Lebanese artist, living and working in Beirut. He studied Fine Arts in Beirut and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. Born during the Lebanese civil war in the 1970s, Baalbaki draws most of his inspiration from this subject matter. In 2012, Baalbaki was part of the The Future of a Promise at the 54th Venice Biennale: the first pan-Arab exhibition of contemporary art to feature in the festival. This exhibition brought together more than 25 recent works by some foremost artists of the Arab world. His work depicted warriors wearing veils or casks. His paintings often describe the seemingly endless conflicts that haunt the Middle East. <a href="https://www.oneart.org/biographies/artist/ayman-baalbaki-0">More on Ayman Baalbaki</a></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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And still we dare to slander and malign them, to besmirch their name. Instead of being deeply ashamed of what we did and trying to undo some of the evil we committed . . . we justify our terrible acts and even attempt to glorify them". <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/4/15/323582/-">Nathan Chofshi</a><br /><br /><b>Ismail Shammout (1930 – 2006)</b> was a Palestinian artist and art historian.<br /><br />Shammout was born in 1930 in Lydda. On July 12, 1948, he and his family were amongst 25,000 residents of Lydda expelled from their homes by Israeli occupation. The Shammout family moved to the Gaza refugee camp of Khan-Younes. In 1950 Shammout went to Cairo and enrolled in the College of Fine Arts. After returning to Gaza in 1953, he held his first exhibition, which was a success.<br /><br />Shammout and Palestinian artist Tamam al Akhal participated in the Palestine Exhibition of 1954 in Cairo. The exhibition was inaugurated by then Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser. Later in 1954, he moved to Italy and enrolled at the Academia De Belle Arti in Rome. He married al Akhal in 1959. Their work has been exhibited in several countries.<br /><br />Shammout became a part of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the Director of Arts and National Culture in 1965. He also held the position of Secretary General of the Union of Palestinian Artists. He became Secretary General of the Union of Arab artists in 1969. In 1992 he and his wife, al Akhal, moved to Germany due to the Gulf War. After Germany, they settled in Jordan.<br /><br />He and Al Akhal, returned to Lydda in 1997.<br /><br />He died on July 1, 2006, at the age of seventy-six. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Shammout">More on Ismail Shammout</a></span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Images are copyright of their respective owners, assignees or others. Some Images may be subject to copyright</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">I don't own any of these images - credit is always given when due unless it is unknown to me. if I post your images without your permission, please tell me.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">I do not sell art, art prints, framed posters or reproductions. Ads are shown only to compensate the hosting expenses.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">If you enjoyed this post, please share with friends and family.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Thank you for visiting my blog and also for liking its posts and pages.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please note that the content of this post primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></span></div>Henry Zaidanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13136406056367353328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986944844776118393.post-25540110766127650182024-02-25T08:33:00.000-08:002024-02-25T08:33:24.555-08:0001 Painting, Middle East Artists, Suleiman Mansour's Motherhood, with Footnotes #69<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZCsuFekkcAOLfX9BqZ_Mc4aa6t-aKIYiIop2XWG272M8yN39zPlPDIbFxGql3FZxSBc-OdCYY_irveQVBaxCc4sTjI7_csrbUySny7uDZaITo2lp3VZIJKZHM168D4udyikeBaLE5PpBurVtvgAoZmDbeEYty4KDBPGSvolS6o-WWpbWojKUl3gUf6BI/s933/Suleiman%20Mansour's%20Motherhood.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="591" height="1300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZCsuFekkcAOLfX9BqZ_Mc4aa6t-aKIYiIop2XWG272M8yN39zPlPDIbFxGql3FZxSBc-OdCYY_irveQVBaxCc4sTjI7_csrbUySny7uDZaITo2lp3VZIJKZHM168D4udyikeBaLE5PpBurVtvgAoZmDbeEYty4KDBPGSvolS6o-WWpbWojKUl3gUf6BI/w823-h1300/Suleiman%20Mansour's%20Motherhood.jpg" width="823" /></a></div><span face="BentonSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;"><b>Suleiman Mansour (b. 1947)</b></div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;"><b>Motherhood, c. 1986</b></span></div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;">Oil on canvas</span></div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;">108 by 69 cm. 42½by 27 in.</span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;">Private collection</span></div></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span face="BentonSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;"><span><span face="BentonSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.54px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span face="BentonSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.54px;"><b style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;">Sold for 63,500 GBP in Oct 2023</b></span></span></div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;"><span><span face="BentonSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.54px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span face="BentonSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.54px;">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 child overhead towards the sky, as he grasps for the beaming sun in a ritualistic gesture. <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/20th-century-art-middle-east-2/motherhood">More on this painting</a></span></span></div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;"><span><span face="BentonSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.54px;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;">Born in a little village near Ramallah in 1947, </span><b style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;">Suleiman Mansour</b><span style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;"> maintained a great attachment to his native rural hometown and its customs, painting portraits of his relatives since his youngest age. In the 1970s, he took part in a thorough research project on the folkloric heritage of Palestinian culture, an initiative that profoundly shaped his subsequent active involvement in the Palestinian art movement. Preoccupied with the preservation and publication of traditional artworks, Mansour aimed to safeguard indigenous Palestinian culture while offering native forms of inspiration to new generations of artists and influencing contemporary art. </span></span></span><span face="BentonSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.54px;"><a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/20th-century-art-middle-east-3/jericho">More on these paintings</a></span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="BentonSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="BentonSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="BentonSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="BentonSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixOA4Wg1sJMNc1Xt_E3x7NinxJflvlngXxKCI-kk93UdDPlrJX-kaAcCS3K6WE_sTuG-qbqrKwa1kLDu2Dlw_Ntmfubf8zGAaBNAMy_3_BctDBoUrLnIhvuLz880ODKBNypZ-Y2Ow63onv87DAlX69DgUwnHHG6o0t_Zlh6YSOcqn6RPKDaY0R6LAROrw/w868-h488/ART%20UNDER%20AGGRESSION.webp" width="868" /></a></div><h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #ca221b; font-family: var(--newspack-theme-font-heading); font-size: 50px; line-height: var(--newspack-theme-font-line-height-heading); margin: 32px 0px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: var(--newspack-theme-font-heading);">ART UNDER AGGRESSION</span></h1><p class="has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--wp--preset--color--black) !important; font-family: "PT serif", Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 30px; margin-bottom: 32px; margin-top: 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">An artist's tribute to painter Duniyana Al-Amoor, killed in her room in Gaza at age 22.</em></p><div class="wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-6 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex" style="align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; font-family: "PT serif", Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 20px; gap: 0.5em; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 32px; margin-top: 32px;"><h5 class="wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--wp--preset--color--black) !important; font-family: var(--newspack-theme-font-heading); font-size: var(--newspack-theme-font-size-sm); line-height: var(--newspack-theme-font-line-height-heading); margin: 0px;">by <a href="https://scalawagmagazine.org/author/malakmattar" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 110ms ease-in-out 0s;">MALAK MATTAR</a></h5><p class="has-text-align-right has-text-color has-small-font-size" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #ca221b; font-size: var(--newspack-theme-font-size-sm); margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: right;">June 22, 2023</p><h5 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-right has-black-color has-text-color" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--wp--preset--color--black) !important; font-family: var(--newspack-theme-font-heading); font-size: var(--newspack-theme-font-size-sm); line-height: var(--newspack-theme-font-line-height-heading); margin: 0px; text-align: right;"><a href="https://scalawagmagazine.org/abolition-week/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=header" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 110ms ease-in-out 0s;"><mark class="has-inline-color" style="background: rgb(255, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;">ABOLITION WEEK</mark></a></h5><div><br /></div></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/06/duniyana-al-amoor/">https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/06/duniyana-al-amoor/</a><br /></p><p><br /></p>Henry Zaidanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13136406056367353328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986944844776118393.post-1976949699529191712023-10-27T09:36:00.003-07:002023-10-27T09:36:32.183-07:00Abeer Jebril hopes her portraits will bring attention to the social and political problems women face in Gaza, #70<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGVLJbE5nNyWAO0eUPFvlqEY7c3dP1qrNklkEk6qYMadQ1FD91F3lr5LCBayViqAKZeunEB4CCRqxX6JW6uMNmIx1uHxkBSWZXLACw307pqS3PbuK-0srzaSq7_zhzji_LQyPpVEUALcgyexDFqyYFpaf89_hlJYZQeWi51y6iAHPq_kPeDOQ16Zsj_-s/s1109/2021-09-20T082813Z_474490745_RC2VLP9AQHJS_RTRMADP_3_PALESTINIANS-ARTIST-BALLET.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGVLJbE5nNyWAO0eUPFvlqEY7c3dP1qrNklkEk6qYMadQ1FD91F3lr5LCBayViqAKZeunEB4CCRqxX6JW6uMNmIx1uHxkBSWZXLACw307pqS3PbuK-0srzaSq7_zhzji_LQyPpVEUALcgyexDFqyYFpaf89_hlJYZQeWi51y6iAHPq_kPeDOQ16Zsj_-s/w701-h468/2021-09-20T082813Z_474490745_RC2VLP9AQHJS_RTRMADP_3_PALESTINIANS-ARTIST-BALLET.jpg" /></a><br /><b>Abeer Jebril </b>hopes her portraits will bring attention to the social and political problems women face in Gaza, <b><a href="https://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/arts-culture/abeer-jebril-gaza-painter/">rappler</a></b></span>Henry Zaidanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13136406056367353328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986944844776118393.post-39150325062601674562023-10-15T07:45:00.003-07:002024-01-04T06:53:47.851-08:0001 Painting, Middle East Artists, Abd El-Ghaffar Shedid's At the Gate, with Footnotes #58<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">At the Gate, c. 1963</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">80 x 50cm (31 1/2 x 19 11/16in).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Abd El-Ghaffar Shedid was born in 1938 in Cairo</b> 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. <a href="http://www.imagomundiart.com/artworks/abd-el-ghaffar-shedid-eva#:~:text=Abd%20El%2DGhaffar%20Shedid%20was,History%20from%20Helwan%20University%2C%20Cairo.&text=His%20paintings%20are%20mainly%20concerned,the%20creation%20of%20the%20cosmos.">More on Abd El-Ghaffar Shedid</a></span></div>
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Henry Zaidanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13136406056367353328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986944844776118393.post-70540070860975011242023-09-26T12:44:00.001-07:002023-09-26T12:46:32.158-07:0001 Painting, Middle East Artists, Kahlil Gibran's Head of a child, with Footnotes #69<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv342G-joO5pObgTD9MBEwUh3u_Oj26pBlaasDVrUbKiyPEnCCU8s9vNzIw1tDwVCzKt_6himVJWF5qcKEv7_rKZewda4XabYnkn5U-rJZ_nRSxAlTG_MEtddTspDKHziYUL3k5YBybd969gTb4Q-aoVtjnAeve3vqjlJub3uxi2Xgj-UlRe-nXC_h/s640/Kahlil%20Gibran's%20Head%20of%20a%20child.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="640" height="451" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv342G-joO5pObgTD9MBEwUh3u_Oj26pBlaasDVrUbKiyPEnCCU8s9vNzIw1tDwVCzKt_6himVJWF5qcKEv7_rKZewda4XabYnkn5U-rJZ_nRSxAlTG_MEtddTspDKHziYUL3k5YBybd969gTb4Q-aoVtjnAeve3vqjlJub3uxi2Xgj-UlRe-nXC_h/w670-h451/Kahlil%20Gibran's%20Head%20of%20a%20child.jpg" width="670" /></a></div><div class="LotName" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.11px; line-height: 19.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Kahlil Gibran (American, 1883-1931)</span></div><div class="LotDesc" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="letter-spacing: 0.11px; line-height: 19.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.11px; line-height: 19.8px;"><b>Head of a child</b></span></div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.11px; line-height: 19.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.11px; line-height: 19.8px;">Pencil and watercolour</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.11px; line-height: 19.8px;"> </span></span></div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.11px; line-height: 19.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.11px; line-height: 19.8px;">19</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.11px; line-height: 19.8px;"> x 28cm </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.11px; line-height: 19.8px;">(7 1/2</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.11px; line-height: 19.8px;"> x 11in)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 19.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.11px; line-height: 19.8px;">Private collection</span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sold for £31,250 in </span>April 2015</b><br /></div><br /> "Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.<br />But you are life and you are the veil<br />Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror<br />But you are eternity and you are the mirror" <br />Kahlil Gibrain</span><div><br /></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.11px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Gibran Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931),</b> was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title. 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My photographs seek to portray Arab women as powerful presences in their own right." <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/20th-century-art-middle-east-3/les-femmes-du-maroc-revisited-1?locale=en">(THE ARTIST - QUOTED IN THE STRAITS TIMES - 2018</a></div></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Lalla A. Essaydi </b>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.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"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." <a href="http://lallaessaydi.com/1.html">More on Lalla A. Essaydi</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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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. <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/20th-century-art-middle-east-3/jerusalem?locale=en">More on this painting</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><b> Jamil Molaeb (1948)</b> 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.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />Back in his native country in 1989, Molaeb started teaching art at the Lebanese University and the Lebanese American University of Beirut. <br /><br />Since 1966 he has held different solo exhibitions in Lebanon, Algeria, France, Switzerland and the United States.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <a href="https://molaeb.com/biographyjamil/">More on Jamil Molaeb</a></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Images are copyright of their respective owners, assignees or others.
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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".” </span><a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/20th-century-art-middle-east-3/paysage-de-montagne?locale=en">More on this painting</a></div><br /><b>Nadia Saikali </b>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. <a href="https://www.labiennaledelyon.com/en/les-artistes/details/nadia-saikali#:~:text=Biography,Michel%20Durand%20and%20Donnot%20Seydoux.">More on Nadia Saikali</a></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Icons</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7849597160527867394/4426857203708279599"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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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.<br /><br />Her Palestinian origin is clearly expressed in her works depicting the land, trees, and the soil of her country. <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/20th-century-art-middle-east-3/untitled-4?locale=en">More on Juhaina Habibi Kandalaft</a></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please visit my other blogs: <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5004672358580328331/8387177029451466579"><span style="color: blue;">Art Collector</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5004672358580328331/8387177029451466579"><span style="color: blue;">Mythology</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5004672358580328331/8387177029451466579"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Art</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5004672358580328331/8387177029451466579"><span style="color: blue;">Portrait of a Lady</span></a>,</b> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5004672358580328331/8387177029451466579"><span style="color: blue;">The Orientalist</span></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5004672358580328331/8387177029451466579"><span style="color: blue;">Art of the Nude</span></a></b> and </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5004672358580328331/8387177029451466579"><span style="color: blue;">The Canals of Venice</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5004672358580328331/8387177029451466579"><span style="color: blue;">Middle East Artists</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5004672358580328331/8387177029451466579"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Saints</span></b></a> and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5004672358580328331/8387177029451466579"><b><span style="color: blue;">365 Days</span></b></a>, also visit my Boards on</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5004672358580328331/8387177029451466579"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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