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Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

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* Youssef Abdelke (born 1951), drawer, printmaker *

Aula Al Ayoubi Aula Al Ayoubi, born in 1973 in Damascus, is a Syrian painter and visual artist. Biography Aula Al Ayoubi studied mathematics and educational sciences at the University of Damascus. She graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts of Damascus ...

(born 1973), painter, collagist * Bengin Ahmad (born 1986), Syrian-Kurdish photographer * Darin Ahmad (born 1979), artist, poet, and writer *

Khaled Akil Khaled Akil born 1986 in Aleppo is a Syrian artist based in Istanbul. Akil is a self-taught artist who works with different art mediums. He is best known for his photography series Pokémon Go in Syria Biography Khaled Akil was born in Aleppo, ...

(born 2000), Syrian-born Turkish multidisciplinary visual artist, photographer *

Krayem Awad Krayem Maria Awad (born 1948) is a Vienna-based painter, sculptor and poet of Syrian origin. He was born in Basir, and later moved to Austria, where he studied from 1968 telecommunications engineering at the Vienna Technical College, and was als ...

(born 1948), Vienna-based

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

, sculptor and poet, of

Syrian Syrians ( ar, سُورِيُّون, ''Sūriyyīn'') are an Eastern Mediterranean ethnic group indigenous to the Levant. They share common Levantine Semitic roots. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indi ...

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Riad Beyrouti Riad Beyrouti ( ar, ریاض بیروتي; born 6 May 1944 in Damascus – died 4 November 2019 in Honfleur, France) was a Syrian painter. He lived in Lower Normandy from 1969 until his death. Biography Riad Beyrouti graduated from the Damas ...

(1944–2019), painter

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* Salwa Fallouh (1920–2008), painter and illustrator * Ali Farzat (born 1951), political cartoonist

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Omar Hamdi Omar Hamdi (1952–2015), known as Malva, was a Syrian Kurdish artist who lived and worked in Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_ ...

(1951–2015), Syrian Kurdish painter and designer, based in Vienna *

Mahmoud Hammad Mahmoud Hammad (1923–1988) was a Syrian Painting, painter and pioneer of modern Syrian art. Life and career Hammad was born 1923 in Jarabulus, Syria. He studied art at the Accademia di belle arti di Roma between 1953 and 1957. He focused on ...

(1923–1988), painter, pioneer of modern Syrian art *

Wahbi al-Hariri Wahbi al-Hariri-Rifai ( ar, وهبي الحريري آلرفاعي; 1914 – 16 August 1994) was a Syrian American artist who has often been called "the last of the classicists". As an artist he was remarkably prolific in the last years of his li ...

(1914–1994), Syrian American sculptor, painter, architect

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Nazem al-Jaafari Nazem al-Jaafari ( ar, ناظم الجعفري) (born 1918 in Damascus, Syria – 2015) was considered the founder of impressionism in Syria. Al-Jaafari studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts In European academic traditions, fine art is develo ...

(1918–2015), painter, pioneer of impressionism in Syria

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Mamdouh Kashlan Mamdouh Kashlan (born 1929 in Damascus) is a Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻAra ...

(born 1929), painter * Marwan Kassab-Bachi (1934–2016), German-Syrian painter *

Louay Kayali Louay Kayali ( ar, لؤي كيالي), (20 January 1934 – 26 January 1978) was a Syrian modern artist. Biography Kayali was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1934 and studied art in the Accademia di Belle Arti after having studied at the Al-Tajhiz Scho ...

(1934–1978), modern painter, drawer * Khaled al-Khani (born 1975), painter * Roland Khoury (1930–1988), painter

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Fateh Moudarres Fateh al-Moudarres ( ar, فاتح المدرس; 1922–1999) was a Syrian painter and one of the leaders of the modern art movement in Syria. Moudarres studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, where he was influenced by Surrealism. ...

(1922–1999), painter, leader of the

modern art Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the tradi ...

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* Nazir Nabaa (1938–2016), painter

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Khairat Al-Saleh Khairat Al-Saleh, born in Jerusalem and educated in Syria and Egypt, is a noted painter in the Hurufiyya movement and a ceramicist, glassmaker and printmaker. Life and career Khairat Al-Saleh was born in Jerusalem in 1940. She was educated at th ...

(born 1940), multidisciplinary artist, part of the Hurufiyya movement; born in Israel and lives in Britain * Kais Salman (born 1976), painter * Mamoun Sakkal (born 1950), calligrapher * Sara Shamma (born 1975), painter

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Hala Al-Abdallah Yacoub Hala Alabdalla (born 1956 in Hama, Syria) is a Syrian cinematographer and director. She currently lives in Paris, producing movies. She is known for '' Je suis celle qui porte les fleurs vers sa tombe'' ("I Am She who Brings the Flowers to her G ...

(born 1956), cinematographer, filmmaker

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