Category: Countries
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(1934 – 2005) Juliana Seraphim is a Palestinian-born painter. She was a refugee in the 1950s, and later lived in Lebanon. Seraphim was born in 1934 in Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine. She was among the first waves of displaced Palestinian refugees to move to Beirut, Lebanon in 1952. She was 14 when her family fled first…
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Iqbal Karesly (1925-1969) this self-taught Syrian artist had a beautiful artistic career, yet a short life. Karesly did not study art, she get married at the age of 15. She travelled from place to place in Syria first along with her father who was a teacher, and then along with her husband to settle for…
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(1924 – 1989) Inji was born into a wealthy family from Cairo’s francophone aristocracy on April 16, 1924. She received a strict Catholic education prior to studying at the Lycée Français in Cairo where she was first introduced to Marxism. Inji began painting from a young age and was a member of the influential Art…
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(1931 – 2019) Huguette Caland was a Lebanese painter, sculptor and fashion designer known for her erotic abstract paintings and body landscapes. Based out of Los Angeles, her art was displayed in numerous exhibitions and museums around the world. Caland was born into a Lebanese political family in Beirut, Lebanon on 19 January 1931. Her…
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(1923 – 2009) Khal was an American artist and critic of Lebanese descent. Helen Khal was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania to a Lebanese American family from Tripoli, Lebanon. She started her painting career at the age of 21; when illness forced house rest, she began to draw. On a visit to Lebanon in 1946 she…
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(1925 – 2021) Gazbia Sirry, born in Cairo in 1925, emerged as a prominent Egyptian artist, leaving an indelible mark on the art world over a career spanning six decades. Initially studying fine arts at the Higher Institute of Art Education for Women Teachers in 1950, she later became a professor at the institute and…
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(1920 – 2010) The style of painting that she is famous for is called “nagash painting”, or a fresco wall painting in the majlis, or front parlour, of the traditional Asir home. “Called ‘nagash’ in Arabic, the wall paintings were a mark of pride for a woman in her house.” They are composed of various…
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Effat Naghi was born into an aristocratic family in Alexandria. Her brother was the great artist Mohamed Naghi, who was twenty years her senior. Naghi was tutored at home and in her early years traveled to Europe several times with her father. When Mohamed Naghi realised that his sister possessed artistic talents, he began to…
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(1930 – 2015) Derrieh Fakhoury was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1930. 1946-1951 Studied painting at the Fine Arts Academy in Beirut. in 1955, Fakhoury won a prize upon an exhibition organized by the Ministry of National Culture and Fine Arts in Beirut. Later, she was granted a scholarship to Italy to continue her studies…
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(1913 – 1968) An Egyptian painter and designer who lived most of her adult life in Alexandria, Egypt. Early life and education Badaro was born in Cairo in 1913, on the island of Zamalek. After the death of her Greek mother, her father, who was a lawyer and businessman, took his two daughters, Jeanne and…
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(1947 – 2015) Asma el Bakry was born in Cairo to an aristocratic and community-oriented family. Her maternal grandfather, Sakakini Pasha, is known to have established the Sakakini quarter in El Zaher district in Cairo, the Roman Catholic Patriarchate in Faggala and the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Old Cairo. She moved to Alexandria, however, as…
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(1929 – 2004)A Moroccan painter. Chaïbia was born in Choutka, a small village near El Jadida, Morocco in 1929. At the age of 13, she was sent to Casablanca by her parents to marry a 70-year-old man. By the age of 14 she had given birth to a son (Hocein), and by the age of…
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(1912 – 2011) Of Lebanese origin and nourished by the resplendence of our fiery sun, our starry skies and our landscapes full of light, Blanche Lohéac Ammoun left at a very early age to encounter the Occident. And there, in this sensitive spirit, was the union of the poetry of the Orient and the thought…
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(1940 – 2009) Born in Essaouira in 1940, Benhila Regraguia was a self-taught artist and one of the few spontaneous artists. She entered the world of visual arts by chance, and the theme of love had a significant impact on her, guiding her into the realm of visual art. Despite the challenges from her conservative…
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(1931 – 1998) Baya Mahieddine or (Fatima Haddad) is an Algerian artist who did not self-identify as belonging to a particular art genre, but critics have classified her paintings as being surrealist, primitive, naïve, and modern. Her works are mainly paintings, though she did pottery as well, all completely self-taught. Born in 1931 in Fort…