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Iraq: Still Going Strong - artists and works
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Shakir Hassan Al Saïd, 1925 – 2003,
Smawa
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1945 B.A. Social Studies
1954 Institute of Fine Arts,
Baghdad, diploma painting
1955-1960 Académie des Beaux Arts, Paris,
decorative arts
1968-1969 panting teacher in Saudi Arabia, emerged the
idea of ‘one dimension’
19?70-?? painting teacher at the Academy of
Fine Arts, Baghdad
Just like Ismaïl Fattah Shakir Hassan had a lot
of here not mentioned one man and group shows and participated in
prestigious Biennials and Triennials, e.g. Sao Paulo, New Delhi and
Venice. As co-founder of the ‘Group of Baghdad of Modern Art’, 1951, he
called for an equation between traditional heritage and modernism. Before
graduating in painting in 1954 at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad,
in 1948 he had already obtained a B.A. in social science. As a result of
‘his research into the Islamic past he was able to develop a style which
incorporates indigenous and international trends’ Folk-art and legends had
his interest. ‘After his return from Paris he became an abstract painter
with a mystical and contemplative aura. His symbols comprise wall cracks,
graffito, numerals and Arabic letters.’ [1989 Wijdan Ali, ‘Contemporary
Art from the Islamic world’ p.161]. |
Ismaïl Fattah
1934-2004
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1958 Institute of Fine Arts Baghdad, diploma of
sculpture
1959 Institute of Fine Arts Baghdad, diploma of
painting
1964 Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, diploma of sculpture and
Jachomo Academy Rome, diploma of ceramics
1974-2002 professor of
sculpture Fine Arts Academy, Baghdad
Included the before mentioned
Biennials and Triennial Fattah had a multitude of one man and group shows.
In Italy he was awarded with three and in Iraq with many prices. Public
buildings and squares in Baghdad are adorned with Ismaïl Fattah’s often
colossal works and murals, e.g. ‘The Martyr Monument’, a combination of
Islamic aesthetics with Western skill and technology Hewas considered the
best Iraqi sculptor. Early already he had been influenced by the English
sculptors Henry Moore and Kenneth Armitage. Also surrealism and Freuds
interpretation of dreams had their impact and the thin, small, rectangular
statues from Sumerian time fed his technique and his imagination.
Comparable marks characterize his paintings. |
Salem al Dabagh, 1941,
Mousai
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1965 BA in Art, Academy of Baghdad; 1966 diploma in Art,
Germany
1967-1969 teacher Portuguese Art Society, Lisbon
1972-2000
Art teacher and for many years Head of the Graphic Department of the Fine
Arts Institute in Baghdad
solo exhibitions: 1972 Kuwait; 1996
Baghdad; 1998 Baghdad
group exhibitions: 1968 Portugal; 1969
Yugoslavia; 1970 Belgium; 1971 Argentina, 1971 Beirut; 1979 Portugal; 1979
Paris; 1980 Germany; 1986 Baghdad; 1986 Germany; 1986 Norway; Paris; 1988
Second Baghdad; 1990 Kuwait; 1990 Cyprus; 1993 Amman; 2000 Egypt; 2001
Sharjah, UAE; 2003 Tunis
In Baghdad, Kuwait, Cairo and Madrid Al
Dabagh won prestigious awards.
His paintings are made in simple forms
and based on his graphic experiences. |
Hana Mallalaa, 1958
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1958 diploma in graphic, Fine Arts Institute
Baghdad
2000 MA in painting Academy Baghdad
Head of Graphic
Department, Fine Arts Institute Baghdad
Lecturer Academy of Fine Arts
Baghdad
solo exhibitions: 1987 Baghdad; 1991 Baghdad; 1993 Baghdad;
1994 Baghdad; 1995 Amman; 1996 Baghdad; 1998 Baghdad; 1999
Baghdad
group exhibitions: 1988; Baghdad; 1992 Tunis; 1994 Amman; 1996
Baghdad; 1997 Amman; 2000 Paris; 2000 London; 2003 London
Two times she
received an award. Not only as a gifted painter but also as a
draughtswoman. Like Shakir Hassan- inspired by folk art she became
well-known. |
Nazar Yahya, 1963,
Baghdad
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1986 BA, Academy of Fine Arts, Baghdad
solo
exhibitions:1994 Baghdad; 2000 Amman; 2002 Qatar
group exhibitions:
1985 Norway; 1995 Baghdad; 1996 Baghdad; 1997 Baghdad; 1997 Amman; 1998
Baghdad; 1999 Baghdad, 1999 Amman; 1999 Beirut; 2000, Norway; 2000
Baghdad, 2001 Bahrein; 2002 Bangladesh; 2003 London
Obvious is his fine
feeling for material, his inclination to strong, resolute forms which
gives allusions to architecture and sculpture. |
Kareem Risan, 1960,
Baghdad
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1987 BA Academy Baghdad
Head of Graphic Department,
Fine Arts Institute Baghdad
Lecturer Academy of Fine Arts
Baghdad
solo exhibitions: 1992 Baghdad; 1994 Baghdad; 1996 Baghdad;
1997 Amman; 1998 Baghdad
group exhibitions: 1985 Norway; 1986 Baghdad;
1988 Baghdad; 1988 Egypt; 1989 Paris; 1990 Paris; Amman; 1991 Cannes sur
Mer; 1992 Tunis; 1992 Baghdad; 1996 Denmark; 1997 Denmark; 1998 Tunis;
2000 Egypt; 2000 London; 2000 Bahrain; 2003 London, 2004 Amman; 1993 USA
[Nevada University]
In Baghdad, Cairo and Tunis he acquired
awards.
In the use of colors his mainly abstract, imaginative pictures
on board or on objects, remember of Shakir Hassan al
Saïd. |
Ghassan Gha’eb, 1964,
Baghdad
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1986 Fine Arts Institute Baghdad, diploma
1997 BA,
Academy, Baghdad
2001 solo exhibition: Amman
group exhibitions:
1986 Baghdad; 1988 Baghdad; 1991 Amman; 1992 Baghdad; 1995 Baghdad; 1996
Amman; 1997 Amman; 1998 Baghdad; 1999 Beirut; 2001 Bahrain; 2002 Paris;
2002 Bangladesh; 2002 Amman
Honorable awards were given him in 1987,
1996 and 2000. |
Samer Usama, 1964,
Baghdad
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1985, Fine Arts Institute Baghdad, diploma in Graphic
Art
1992-1998 4 x solo exhibition Amman
group exhibitions:
1984 Norway; 1984, South Korea; 1986 Baghdad; 1992 Tunis; 1993 Amman; 1997
Norway; 1999 Egypt; 1999 Fifty Amman; 2000 Amman; 2001 Bahrain; 2002
Bangladesh; 2002 Amman; 2003 Dubai
In robust mostly black shapes which
remember of sculptures his paintings seem to show constructions of
wood. |
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