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Abbassi, Nasreddine  

Algerian, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1949, in Constantine.

Painter, miniaturist. Local scenes, scenes with figures, landscapes.

Nasreddine Abbassi was a student at the Algiers school of art. After doing a number of different jobs, he decided to take up painting as a full-time profession. Since ...

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Abdel Kerim, Salah  

Egyptian, 20th century, male.

Born 1925; died 1988.

Sculptor, painter. Animals.

Salah Abdel Kerim studied at Cairo's faculty of art, continuing his studies in Italy and in Paris. He was appointed Professor of Decorative Art at the same faculty in Cairo and was later appointed Dean of Fine Arts in the city....

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Abdel Méguid, Raouf  

Egyptian, 20th century, male.

Born 1932.

Painter.

Raouf Abdel Méguid studied at the arts faculty in Cairo in 1955, continuing his studies in Rome in 1959. He was later appointed Professor at the faculty where he had studied as a young man. His painting incorporates traditional motifs from Arabic architectural design which he reworks, often in a playful manner....

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Abdel Mooti, Moustapha  

Egyptian, 20th century, male.

Born 1938, in Alexandria.

Painter.

Moustapha Abdel Mooti studied at the fine arts faculty in Alexandria and was later appointed Professor there.

He paints monumental geometric forms, spheres on top of pyramids or pyramids on top of spheres or cubes, for example, which sometimes appear to punctuate dreamlike spaces, as in his work ...

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Abdul-Wahab, Gilani  

Tunisian, 20th century, male.

Active in France.

Born 3 October 1890, in Mehdia, Algeria.

Painter, draughtsman. Nudes, portraits, landscapes.

Gilani Abdul-Wahab worked mainly in France. He began his artistic education in 1921 at the free academies of Montparnasse in Paris and at the Académie Julian....

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Abitbol, Mireille  

French, 20th century, female.

Born 1908, in Oran, Algeria; died 8 December 1995.

Painter.

Abitbol exhibited a painting at the Salon d'Automne in 1937.

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Abner, Raymond  

French, 20th century, male.

Active from 1947 active in France.

Born 8 May 1919, in Cairo, Egypt; died December 1999.

Painter. Landscapes.

Raymond Abner studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Cairo from 1941-1943, then at St Martin's School of Art in London. In 1947...

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Abou Chadi, Abou El Fath  

Egyptian, 20th century, male.

Born 1944, in Menoufia.

Painter. Figures.

Abou Chadi has taken part in a number of local group exhibitions. He was selected to participate in the exhibition entitled Aspects of Contemporary Egyptian Art ( Visages de l'art contemporain égyptien) at the Musée Galliera in Paris in ...

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Abourisk, Maïa  

Moroccan, 20th century, female.

Born 13 July 1911, in Jerusalem.

Painter, watercolourist, pastellist. Portraits.

Maïa Abourisk studied initially at Casablanca's school of fine art and then under the guidance of the orientalist painter, Lucien Mainssieux. She mainly paints portraits of famous Moroccan figures. Her works include ...

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Abu-Bekr-Mohammed-Ben-Hassan  

Arabic School, 10th century, male.

Died 997.

Painter.

None of the works of this artist are known.

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Adams, Albert  

South African, 20th–21st century, male.

Born 23 June 1929, in Johannesburg; died 31 December 2006, in London.

Painter, printmaker, draughtsman.

Albert Adams moved to Cape Town with his mother and sister at the age of four. After high school he studied at Hewat College, and attended art classes with Peter Clarke; he was refused entrance to the Michaelis School of Fine Art because of the colour of his skin....

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Adenaike, Tayo  

Bolaji V. Campbell

[Adenake, A. O.]

(b Idanre, April 27, 1954).

Nigerian painter. He received his BA from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (1974), and his MFA from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (1982), where he trained with Uche Okeke and Obiora Udechukwu. Udechukwu's influence can be seen in Adenaika's use of uli, akika and nsibidi motifs (see under Ejagham and Africa §V 3.). He inflected these designs with Yoruba characteristics and used them to reflect current issues as well as depict folktales. He is a third-generation Nsukka painter (see Nigeria, Federal Republic of §V) and one of the first non-Igbo uli artists. The watercolours he uses are an ideal medium because their fluidity matches the flow of uli line. In the 1990s he was artistic director of an advertising agency in Enugu, and he has served as art editor for the journal Okike, as well as designing book covers.

‘The Influence of Uli Art on Contemporary Nsukka School Painting’, ...

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Adenaike, Tayo  

Nigerian, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1954, in Idanre.

Painter. Genre scenes, scenes with figures.

Tayo Adenaike studied under the painter Udechukwu, who influenced many artists. He paints Nigerian society in the uli style, which takes its inspiration from the traditional forms of expression used by women and in particular old decorative motifs of an abstract nature. He participated in ...

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Ades, Josiah V.  

British, 20th century, male.

Active in France.

Born 3 April 1899, in Cairo, Egypt.

Painter. Portraits, genre scenes, landscapes.

Josiah Ades was the cousin of the writer Albert Adès, and, like him, studied law. He worked as a lawyer in Cairo and then in Alexandria and was an amateur painter until the calling became too great for him. He settled in Paris ...

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Adly, Suzanne  

Egyptian, 20th century, female.

Born in Constantinople.

Painter. Genre scenes.

Suzanne Adly exhibited some genre paintings of the Near East at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1931.

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Adrey, Maurice  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 1899, in Oran, Algeria; died 1950, in Paris.

Painter. Portraits, landscapes, still-lifes.

School of Algiers.

Maurice Adrey studied with Augustin Ferrando at the École des Beaux-Arts in Oran. He was a resident at the Casa Velázquez in Madrid, and graduated in ...

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Aerni, Franz Theodor  

German, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 19 October 1853, in Aarburg; died 1918.

Painter. Genre scenes, landscapes.

Having studied with Malatesta at the art academy in Modena, Franz Theodor Aerni accompanied Herm-Carrodi on his trip to Egypt and Cyprus, bringing back many studies (1879...

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Affre, Charles François Albert  

French, 20th century, male.

Born in Oran, Algeria.

Painter. Landscapes.

Affre was a pupil of the Toulouse artist Gaston Pierre Galey. From 1926, he featured regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français, with landscapes of Provence and Brittany, among others.

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Afolabi, Jacob  

Nigerian, 20th century, male.

Painter.

Afolabi is one of the representatives of Oshogbo art, which explores 'the Yoruba myths using modern pictorial techniques' and which is characterised by 'its expressivity, its sensual colours and fantastical or surreal compositions' (Jutta Stöter-Bender).

Stöter-Bender, Jutta: L'Art contemporain dans les pays du "tiers-monde"...

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African American Expatriate Artists  

Theresa Leininger-Miller

[Negro Colony]

Group of African American artists active in France in the 1920s and 1930s. Between the world wars Paris became a Mecca for a “lost generation” of Americans. Hundreds of artists, musicians, and writers from all over the world flocked to the French capital in search of a sense of community and freedom to be creative. For African Americans, the lure of Paris was enhanced by fear of and disgust with widespread racial discrimination experienced in the United States. They sought a more nurturing environment where their work would receive serious attention, as well as the chance to study many of the world’s greatest cultural achievements. France offered this along with an active black diasporal community with a growing sense of Pan-Africanism. Painters, sculptors, and printmakers thrived there, studying at the finest art academies, exhibiting at respected salons, winning awards, seeing choice art collections, mingling with people of diverse ethnic origins, dancing to jazz, and fervently discussing art, race, literature, philosophy, and politics. Although their individual experiences differed widely, they had much in common, including exposure to traditional European art, African art, modern art, and proto-Negritude ideas. As a result of their stay in Paris, all were affected artistically, socially, and politically in positive ways and most went on to have distinguished careers....