The Tunis Institute of Fine Arts (french: Institut supérieur des beaux-arts de Tunis) is a fine

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Tunis ''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = , population_urban = , population_metro = 2658816 , population_density_km2 = , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 ...

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. Founded in 1923, its seat was located at the ''Dribat'' Ben Abdallah near ''

Tourbet el Bey The Tourbet el Bey ( ar, تربة الباي) is a Tunisian royal mausoleum in the southwest of the medina of Tunis.plastic art Plastic arts are art forms which involve physical manipulation of a plastic medium by Molding (process), molding or modeling such as sculpture or ceramic art, ceramics. Less often the term may be used broadly for all the visual arts (such as pa ...

s movement in Tunisia, particularly after the

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Notable Students

Former students of the institute include : * Azzedine Alaïa * Abdelfattah Boussetta *

Antonio Corpora Antonio Corpora (1909–2004) was a Tunisian born Italian painter who followed the Tachisme style of Abstract art. Corpora was born in Tunis, Tunisia on 15 August 1909 to Sicilian parents. He trained at the Tunis Institute of Fine Arts under t ...

* Ammar Farhat *

Safia Farhat Safia Farhat () (née, Foudhaili; 1924 – 7 February 2004) was a pioneer of visual arts in Tunisia, as well as an academic and a women's rights activist. She is remembered for establishing modern tapestry in her country, as well as for her cont ...

* Abdelaziz Gorji * Mohamed Saadi *

Nadia Kaabi-Linke Nadia Kaabi-Linke (born 1978) is a Tunis-born, Berlin-based visual artist best known for her conceptual art and 2011 sculpture ''Flying Carpets''. Her work has explored themes of geopolitics, immigration, and transnational identities. Raised b ...

* Mahmoud Sehili * Hedi Turki *

Yahia Turki Yahia Turki, (), born Yahia Ben Mahmoud El Hajjem in 1903 in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, died 1 March 1969, was a Tunisian painter described as the "father of Tunisian painting". After the Independence in 1956, Yahia became the president of l'Ecole ...

Zoubeir Turki Zoubeir Turki (19 November 1924 – 23 October 2009) was a Tunisian painter and sculptor of Turkish people, Turkish origin. He was the younger brother of Hedi Turki (1922–2019). Born in the Medina of Tunis to a family of Turkish people, Tu ...

* Ali Zenaidi

References

''This article incorporates some text translated from arabic Wikipedia''

External links

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