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Contemporary Artists from Bilad Al-Sham (2)

"The private collection of The Arab Bank and The Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation"


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Syria

Fateh Al Mudarres (1922-1999)

1922
Born in Syria
1954
Studied Fine Arts at the Accademia de Belle Arts, Rome , Italy 1969
Resumed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts , Paris

Oil on canvas
(72x74)


Oil on canvas
(336x228cm)
1995

(professor at the Academy of Fine Arts (HDK) of Berlin,

1934
Born in Damascus, Syria
1955- 1957
Studied Arabic literature at Damascus University
1957-1962
Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, with professor Hanz Trier
lives and works in Berlin, Germany

 
Natheer Nab'aa (1938)
1938
Born in Damascus, Syria
1959-1964
Studied painting in Cairo
1971-1974

Resumed his studies in Fine Arts in Paris, France
Lives and works in Damascus

Mixed media on canvas (142x122cm)
1999

Ziad Dalloul (1953)

Oil on canvas
(33x41cm)
1995
1953
Born in Sweida

Diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus, Syria Diploma from L'Ecole National Superieure des Arts Decoratif de Paris, France
D.E.A. in Plastic Arts, University of Paris VII
Lives and works in Paris since 1984

Additional artists include:
Yousef Abdelke, Natheer Ismael, Laila Muraywid, Ali Mustafa.

Lebanon

Helen Khal (1923)

1923

Born in Pennsylvania, U.S.A, in 1923
1946
Studied drawing and painting at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA)
1949
Studied art at the Art Student's League, New York

Established Gallery One, Lebanon's first permanent art gallery

Oil on canvas
(90x75cm)
 
Etel Adnan (1925)

Tapestry
(158x195cm)
1925
Born in Lebanon, in 1925

A self-taught artist who started to paint at the age of thirty three
Studied literature at the Sorbonne, then persued graduate studies at Berkeley and Harvard in the United States where she graduated with an MA in Poetry
Lives and works in California, U.S.A.
 
Paul Guiragossian (1926-1993)

1926

Born in Jerusalem
1956

Studied Fine Arts at the Fine Arts Academy, Florence, Italy
1961
Resumed his studies in art in Paris, France

Oil on canvas (120x100cm)
 
Chafic Abboud (1926)

Oil on canvas (126x110cm)
1967


1926
Born in Bikfaya, Lebanon, in 1926
Studied drawing at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA)
1952
Studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris. Later he attended famous artists' studios such as Leger, Friesz, Metzinger, and Lhote.

Lives and works in Paris since 1960


1932

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1932
1954-1957
Studied at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA)
He resumed his art studies in Paris, Holland, Italy and Spain. Lives and works in Lebanon.

Watercolor on paper (43x30cm)
1995

Hussein Madi (1938)

Graphic
(46x69cm)
1938
Born in Sheb'a, "Mount Hermon", Lebanon in 1938
1963-1970
Studies in Painting, sculpture and engraving, Accademia di Belle Arts, Rome Italy
Studies in mosaics and Frescoes , Accademia di San Jacomo, Rome, Italy
Lives and works in Beirut


1948
Born in Lebanon
1970
B.A., Fine Arts (with distinction), American University of Beirut, Lebanon
1972
M.A., Fine Arts , Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lives and works in Washington, DC, The United States

Ink and mixed media on paper,
(19x21cm)

Mohammad Al Rawas (1951)

Lithograph and silkscreen
( 66x46cm)
1999
1951
Born in Beirut
1971-1975
B.A. Painting, The Lebanese University of Fine Arts, Beirut, Lebanon
1979-1981
M.A. Printmaking, The Slade School of Fine Arts , University College, London Lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon


1955
Born in Beirut , Lebanon
1984
B.S., Liberal Studies from Beirut University College, Lebanon
1991
M.A., Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach
Lives and works in California, The United States

Oil on Paper
(29x35cm)
1991
 
Additional artists include:
Emanuel Guiragossian

 

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