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List Of Algerian Artists
This is a list of notable artists from, or associated with, Algeria. A * Abderrahmane Abdelli (born 1958) * Adel Abdessemed (born 1971) B * Baya (1931–1998) * Souhila Belbahar (1934–2023) * Nadia Benbouta (born 1970) * Zohra Bensemra (born 1968) * Ahmed Benyahia (born 1943) * Racim Benyahia (born 1987) * Samta Benyahia (born 1950) * Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869–1933) * Zoulikha Bouabdellah (born 1977) * Boualem Boukacem (born 1957) * Mohamed Boumerdassi (1936–2010) F * Omar Fetmouche (born 1955) H * Abdelkhader Houamel (1936–2018) I * M'hamed Issiakhem (1928–1985) K * Mohammed Khadda (1930–1991) * Rachid Koraïchi (born 1947) M * Cherif Merzouki (1951–1991) * Rachid Mouffouk (born 1955) N * Houria Niati (born 1948) O * Driss Ouadahi (born 1959) R * Mohammed Racim (1896–1975) * Omar Racim (1884–1959) T * Mohamed Temam (1915–1988) Y * Bachir Yellès (1921–2022) Z * Rezki Zerarti (born 1938) * Hocine Ziani (born 1953) * Amina Zoubir (born 1983) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algeria
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Mohammed Khadda
Mohammed Khadda ( ar, محمد الخدة, link=no; 14 March 1930 – 4 May 1991) was an Algerian painter, sculptor, and writer. Khadda has been considered to be among the founders of contemporary Algerian painting and one of the many representatives of the "sign painters." He debuted in 1960. His influences included Cubism and Arabic calligraphy. He tended toward the non-figurative or abstract. He represented a generation of Algerian artists who combined the ideas of calligraphic heritage and formal language of Western formal writing through Western abstraction through the 1950s. Biography Born in Mostaganem, Mohammed Khadda was the eldest of five children, two of whom died while infants. His father, Bendehiba Khadda, was born in 1912 in the town of Mina and moved to Mostaganem at a very young age. He was born blind, yet held various occupations such as a bricklayer and a dock worker. Khadda’s mother, Nebi El Ghali was born in 1911 in Zemora, Algeria, a city near Tiaret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algerian Artists
Algerian may refer to: * Something of, or related to Algeria * Algerian people, a person or people from Algeria, or of Algerian descent * Algerian cuisine * Algerian culture * Algerian Islamic reference * Algerian Mus'haf The Algeria Quran is a Quranic manuscript (''mus'haf'') written in Algeria with the Kufic script, written according to the Warsh recitation in 1977 by . To date, the print copy has seen three editions, the first published by the SNED, (formerly ... * Algerian (solitaire) * Algerian (typeface) See also * * Languages of Algeria * List of Algerians {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amina Zoubir
Amina Zoubir (born 1983) is a contemporary artist, filmmaker and performer from Algiers, Algeria. She is known as a feminist performer through video-actions entitled ''Take your place'', which she directed in 2012 during the 50th anniversary of Algerian independence, aiming to question gender issues and conditions of women in Algerian society. She has worked with different art mediums such as sculpture, drawing, installation art, performance and video art. Her work relates to notions of body language in specific spaces of North Africa territories. Biography Amina Zoubir is an Algerian-born French visual artist based between Paris, France and Algiers, Algeria. She was raised in a family of scientists and artists, her mother Hania is a doctor of medicine and researcher at the Pierre & Marie Curie Center at Hospital Mustapha Pacha in Algiers, while her father Hellal Zoubir is a notable painter and designer based in Algeria and represented by the Tafeta Gallery in London. She obtained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hocine Ziani
Hocine Ziani (born in Sidi Daoud on 3 May 1953) is an Algerian painter and artist in plastic arts. Early years Ziani was born in 1953 in a Kabyle people, Kabyle family living in the countryside of lower Kabylia near Zawiyet Sidi Amar Cherif and not far from the course of Oued Sebaou in the current Boumerdès Province. He then spent his childhood in cultural isolation in the first years which coincided with the start of the Algerian revolution. In 1964, two years after the independence of his country, he enrolled in the primary school of Sidi Daoud at the age of 11 and devoted himself to drawing and art as a self-taught. He joined his internship studies in an accounting college in the nearby town of Bordj Menaïel in 1969, then moved to Algiers in 1973 to continue his studies and obtain an accountant position in a national company. From November 1974 to February 1977, he performed his military service in the Algerian desert within the Algerian Army, and on this occasion, he disc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rezki Zerarti
Rezki Zerarti (born 24 July 1938) is an Algerian painter. Biography Rezki Zerarti was born in 1938 in Taourga within lower Kabylia during the period of French Algeria, and he left during the Algerian War in 1959 to the town of Aix-en-Provence in France where he worked as a mason, before starting to follow a few drawing lessons, and the same year he began to paint. He returned to Algeria after Independence in August 1962, and settled in the district of Pointe-Pescade (Raïs Hamidou) in Algiers, and opened his painting studio in the vicinity of the accommodation of the poet Jean Sénac who met him in 1963. Exhibitions Reski Zérarti takes part in the two “Algerian Painters” exhibitions organized in Algiers for the “Fêtes du 1er novembre 1963” then in Paris in 1964. His first personal exhibition was presented at Galerie 54 in 1964, and prefaced by Sénac. He became a member of the UNAP, he participated in its salons and from 1967 to 1971 in the events of the group "A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachir Yellès
Bachir Yellès (; 12 September 1921 – 16 August 2022) was an Algerian painter. Life and career Yellès was born in Tlemcen on 12 September 1921.Bloom and Blair, p50 "Bachir Yelles (b. 1921) and Muhammad Bouzid (b. 1929) explored Cubism, Fauvism and Expressionism while maintaining local themes." He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Algiers, then the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris. He served as a director of the ''École supérieur des Beaux Arts d'Alger'' of Algiers, between the years 1960 and 1980. In his works, he continued using local themes but also experimented with Cubism, Expressionism, and Fauvism. Yellès turned 100 in September 2021. He died in Algiers on 16 August 2022. References Further reading * Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila Blair. ''The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture''. Oxford University Press, 2009. , 9780195309911. * Collectif, Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette. ''Alger 2010–11'' (City Guides Monde). Petit Futé Petite or peti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohamed Temam
Mohamed Temam or Mohamed Temmam (23 February 1915 Algiers – 15 July 1988 Algiers) was Algerian miniaturist painter and illuminator. His miniature painting of the Kaaba in Mecca was featured on a commemorative stamp issued by Algeria in 1978. Bibliography * ''Peintres algériens'', textes d'Edmond Michelet et Mourad Bourboune, Musée des Arts décoratifs de Paris, Paris, 1964 * Mohammed Khadda, ''Éléments pour un art nouveau'', SNED, Alger, 1972 (p. 49) * ''Musées d'Algérie, l'Art Populaire et Contemporain'', Collection Art et Culture, Ministère de L'Information et la Culture, SNED, Alger, 1973 * Mohammed Khadda, ''Feuillets épars liés'', SNED, Alger, 1983 * Dalila Mahhamed-Orfali, ''Chefs d'œuvre du Musée national des beaux-arts d'Alger'', Alger, 1999 (reproduction : ''L'homme en bleu'', n° 79). * Mansour Abrous, ''Les artistes algériens, Dictionnaire biographique, 1917–1999'', Alger, Casbah A kasbah (, also ; ar, قَـصَـبَـة, qaṣaba, lit=f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Racim
Omar Racim (1884–1959) was an Algerian artist who founded the Algerian school of miniature painting in 1939, alongside his brother Mohammed Racim. Racim also founded the nationalist journals ''Al Djazair'' in 1908, ''Al Farouq'' in 1913, and ''Dhou El Fikar'' in 1913.. Biography Racim was born in 1884 into a distinguished family of artists of Turkish descent. whose pre-colonial prosperity had been undermined by the French regime's confiscation of property.. After his studies, and a year passed in Madrasa Thaalibia, Racim worked in the family workshop which his father had re-established as a wood-carving and copper-working workshop in the Casbah of Algiers where he engraved decorated tombstones. The Racim family won commissions for decorating public buildings and the pavilions of French colonial exhibitions.. A renowned calligrapher, Racim also devoted himself to a life of religion and politics.. In 1907 he wrote the Mus'haf of the Thaalibia Quran. In 1912 he made a trip to Egyp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Racim
Mohammed Racim ( ar, محمد راسم, 24 June 189630 March 1975) was an Algerian artist who founded the Algerian School for Miniature Painting with his brother, Omar. It still exists to this day.. Biography Racim was born in The Casbah of Algiers in 1896 into a distinguished family of artists of Turkish descent,. whose pre-colonial prosperity had been undermined by the French regime's confiscation of property.. In 1880, Racim's father had re-established a wood-carving and copper-working workshop in the Casbah of Algiers, where his brother, Omar Racim, engraved decorated tombstones. The Racim family won commissions for decorating public buildings and the pavilions of French colonial exhibitions.. His talent for drawing was recognised during his primary education when he was given work copying Islamic decorative motifs for the state workshops set up by the Governor Charles Jonnart. By about 1914, Racim discovered the works of the Persian, Mughal and Andalusian miniatu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driss Ouadahi
Driss Ouadahi (born 1959 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a contemporary Algerian painter and architect who trained, works, and lives in Düsseldorf, Germany. Ouadahi's work features abstracted architectural forms found in real Algerian housing structures. Themes in Ouadahi's works surround politics of class, religion, and ethnicity relating to ideas of boundaries and otherness. ''Systeme der Abgrenzung (Systems of Demarcation)'', opened at the Heydt Museum in Germany on February 25, 2018 Education * Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf (1988–1994) * École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Algiers (1984–1987) * Architectural Study, Algiers (1979–1982) Public Collections Ouadahi's works are included in the publication collections of Barjeel Art Foundation (Sharjah, UAE), FRAC Centre (Orléans, France), Herbert-Weisenburger-Stiftung (Rastatt, Germany), Kamel Lazaar Foundation (Geneva, Switzerland), Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf The Kunstpalast, formerly Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf is an art museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houria Niati
Houria Niati (born 1948) is an Algerian contemporary artist living in London. Niati specializes in mixed media installations that criticize Western representations and objectification of north African and Middle Eastern women. Her installations notably have live performances most commonly traditional Algerian music such as Raï, as a key visual representation of Niati's homeland and culture. Salah M. Hassan further details her performances, "She uses synthesizers, sound recordings, and special light effects to create a theatrical atmosphere and a vibrant magical environment of sound, body movement, and color." The installations and exhibitions join together paintings, sculptures, drawings, photos, soundtracks, and performances. Early life and career Niati grew up in French-occupied Algeria, where over one million Algerians were killed for resisting occupation. When Niati was twelve years old, she demonstrated against French colonialism with her anti-colonial graffiti, which lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
