Dia Azzawi Paintings
Regarded as one of iraq s greatest painters dia azzawi started his artistic career in 1964 after graduating from the institute of fine arts in baghdad and completing a degree in archaeology from baghdad university in 1962.
Dia azzawi paintings. Active in the arts community he founded the iraqi art group known as new vision and has been an inspiration to a generation of young calligraffiti artists. He is noted for incorporating arabic script into his paintings. Azzawi s acute understanding of antiquity and cultural heritage is evident in paintings sculptures and prints that capture historical moments often on a monumental scale.
In 1969 azzawi with rafa nasiri mohammad muhriddin ismail fattah hachem al samarchi and saleh al jumaie formed the new vision group al ru yya al jadidah uniting fellow artists ideologically and culturally as opposed to stylistically. Institut du monde arabe paris gift of claude and france lemand not in taking shape. Dia azzawi is an iraqi born painter and sculptor now living and working in london and one of the pioneers of modern arab art.
Oil on canvas 33 1 16 x 25 3 16 in. Mixed media on paper laid down on canvas 63 x 47 in. All i am trying to do is to calmly remove the human from the dungeons of oppression and murder and deliver it to a place where it is possible for its body to be spread wide across the face of the earth he has said of his work.
120 100 cm. 1939 353 followers. Find the latest shows biography and artworks for sale by dia azzawi.
Dia al azzawi is an iraqi artist known for both his paintings and sculpture which incorporate traditional elements of arabic calligraphy scenes from iraq s history and babylonian symbols. Page 1 of 1. Collection of the barjeel art foundation sharjah uae.
Skip to beginning of content. Poetry and folkloric memory drawn from ancient and contemporary iraqi and arab histories resonate in the artwork of internationally renowned dia al azzawi. Highlights from the barjeel art foundation.
Dia al azzawi gilgamesh 1 enkido meets the great courtisane 1987. Skip to main content.