Mohamed Chabâa (; 1935–2013) was a Moroccan visual artist. He was a member of the Casablanca School and a leader of contemporary art and modernism in the Global South. His multidisciplinary approach to art became emblematic of the cultural awakening that took place in Morocco in the period following the end of the French Protectorate.

Biography

He was born in Tangier in 1935. He studied at the School of Fine Arts of Tetuan. From 1962 to 1964, he studied at the

Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma The Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma is a public tertiary academy of art in Rome, Italy. It was founded in the sixteenth century, but the present institution dates from the time of the unification of Italy and the capture of Rome by the Kingdom ...

. In 1966, he was hired as a professor at the School of Fine Arts of Casablanca and at the National School of Architecture in Rabat. He was against the classification of Moroccan art as "folklore" or

naïve art Naïve art is usually defined as visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). When this aesthetic is ...

, and published his ideas in the literary magazine ''Anfas''. Along with his friends and colleagues

Mohamed Melehi Mohammed Melehi (; 12 November 1936 – 28 October 2020) was a Moroccan painter associated with the Casablanca school, a modernist art movement active in the 1960s in Morocco. Early life Melehi was born Asilah, Morocco. He studied at the Schoo ...

, Farid Belkahia, and others, Chabâa became involved in the modernist movement known as the Casablanca School.

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20th-century Moroccan artists Typographers and type designers Moroccan socialists Moroccan male painters {{Africa-painter-stub