Sliman Mansour ( also Suleiman or Suliman, ar, سليمان منصور, born 1947), is a

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

painter, considered an important figure among contemporary

Palestinian art Palestinian art is a term used to refer to paintings, posters, installation art and other visual media produced by Palestinian artists. While the term has also been used to refer to ancient art produced in the geographical region of Palestine, ...

ists. Mansour is considered an artist of the

intifada An intifada ( ar, انتفاضة ') is a rebellion or uprising, or a resistance movement. It is a key concept in contemporary Arabic usage referring to a legitimate uprising against oppression.Ute Meinel ''Die Intifada im Ölscheichtum Bahrain: ...

whose work gave visual expression to the

cultural Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human Society, societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, and habits of the ...

concept of

sumud Sumud ( ar, صمود) meaning "steadfastness"Abed, 1988, p. 288. or "steadfast perseverance" is a Palestinian cultural value, ideological theme and political strategy that first emerged among the Palestinian people through the experience of the dia ...

.Ankori, 2006
p. 74.
/ref> Palestinian artist and scholar

Samia Halaby Samia A. Halaby (born 1936, in Jerusalem) is a Palestinian artist, activist, and scholar living and working in New York. Halaby is recognized as a pioneer of abstract painting. Since beginning her artistic career in the late 1950s, she has exhibit ...

has identified Mansour as part of the Liberation Art Movement and cites his important work as an artist and cultural practitioner before and after the Intifada."On "Liberation Art" and Revolutionary Aesthetics: An Interview with Samia Halaby,"

Jadaliyya ''Jadaliyya'' ("dialectic") is an independent ezine founded in 2010 by the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) to cover the Arab World and the broader Middle East. It publishes articles in Arabic, French, English and Turkish, and is run primarily on a ...

, 2012

retrieved January 28, 2014

Biography

During the Intifada, Mansour was part of the "New Visions" group of Palestinian artists that included Tayseer Barakat, Vera Tamari, and

Nabil Anani Nabil Anani ( ar, نبيل عناني born 1943), is a Palestinian artist and one of the founders of the contemporary Palestinian art movement. Biography After his graduation in 1969, from the faculty of Fine Arts at Alexandria University, Anani ...

. This collective turned to earthworks and mixed media and assemblage using materials derived from the Palestinian environment in order to boycott Israeli art supplies in protest of the ongoing occupation.Maymanah Farhat, ''Between Exits: Paintings by

Hani Zurob Hani Zurob (Arabic: هاني زعرب; born 1976), is a Palestinian painter, based in Paris, France. His work addresses concepts of exile, waiting, movement and displacement, and aims to present the collective Palestinian experience through reflec ...

'', Jadaliyya, 2013

retrieved January 28, 2014 In 1988 he made a series of four paintings on List of villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict, destroyed Palestinian villages, the four villages being

Yibna Yibna ( ar, يبنى; ''Jabneh'' or ''Jabneel'' in Biblical times; ''Jamnia'' in Roman times; '' Ibelin'' to the Crusaders), or Tel Yavne is an archaeological site and depopulated Palestinian town. The ruins are located immediately southeast of t ...

Yalo Yalo ( ar, يالو, also transliterated Yalu) was a Palestinian Arab village located 13 kilometres southeast of Ramla. Identified by Edward Robinson as the ancient Canaanite and Israelite city of Aijalon.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp8081 Du ...

Imwas Imwas or Emmaus ( ar, عِمواس), known in classical times as Nicopolis ( gr, Νικόπολις, lit=City of Victory), was a Palestinian Arab village located southeast of the city of Ramla and from Jerusalem in the Latrun salient of the We ...

and

Bayt Dajan Bayt Dajan ( ar, بيت دجن, Bayt Dajan; he, בית דג'אן), also known as Dajūn, was a Palestinian Arab village situated approximately southeast of Jaffa. It is thought to have been the site of the biblical town of Beth Dagon, mentioned ...

.Ankori, 2006, p. 82. He is a co-author of ''Both Sides of Peace: Israeli and Palestinian Political Poster Art'', published in 1998 by the Contemporary Art Museum with

University of Washington Press The University of Washington Press is an American academic publishing house. The organization is a division of the University of Washington, based in Seattle. Although the division functions autonomously, they have worked to assist the universit ...

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* * * * * *''Sliman Mansour'', monograph published in 2011 by Palestinian Art Court-Al Hoash, Jerusalem, with essays by Bashir Makhoul, Nicola Gray and Tina Sherwell

External links

www.legacy-project.orgPalestinian Poster ProjectBarjeel Art FoundationAlhoush House of Arab Art and DesignSliman Mansour's official website
1947 births Living people Artist authors Palestinian poster artists Palestinian painters Palestinian non-fiction writers Palestinian contemporary artists People from Birzeit {{Palestine-painter-stub

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