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Keith Crown

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Rio Grande Gorge near Taos - 22.37x29.62 in., 1996

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Keith Crown

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Fall in New Mexico - Bright Sun - 30x22 in., 1996

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Rolph Scarlett

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Biomorphic Broach silver/gold, c. 1940

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S. Nakadodos

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Nakadodos NFTs (asset backed example), 2021

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Eugene (E.V. Biel) Biel

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Human Condition - o/c 48 x 60 inches, c. 1960

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Rolph Scarlett

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Cash In Hand - o/p, 60 x 45 in., c. 1954

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Jack Laycox

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Columbus Tower, San Francisco - 22x30 in., c. 1965

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Jade Fon

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"Lotus Bowl" - Chinatown S.F. 22x30 in., c. 1955

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Middle East / North African Art

This category covers modern and contemporary art in the Middle East and North Africa from the 1950’s through today.


The modern and contemporary art movement in the Middle East and North Africa has had “fits and starts” and understandably has met with sporadic success as artists struggle to deal with the geopolitical, social, religious, or cultural issue that the Middle East and North Africa are experiencing.

 

Movements like the Calligraphic School of Art (1950s - 1980s) worked towards developing a new visual language by combining tradition and modernity and have helped to bridge the development of Western aesthetics and modern painting in the Islamic world, establishing continuity in Islamic art in the twentieth century.  

The Khartoum School was an active contributor to the growth of modern art in North Africa, the practitioners simplified calligraphic writing and converted it into abstract shapes. This hallmark of the Khartoum School came to be known as Hurufiyya.

 

While some govenrmental authorities have been supportive (often “sporadically”) of the fine arts, that is not the case everywhere in the Middle East and North Africa. Islamic art's ban on figurative painting has given rise to the successful abstraction of traditional arabesque design in an effort to “focus on spiritual representations” rather than the physical or material ones. Modern and Contemporary artists (many working in exile), though coming from diverse countries and cultures, often find commonalities with respect to training, outlook, and a shared desire to create a cross-cultural dialogue about the state of contemporary art in the region while reaching out to their audiences.

Modern and Contemporary movements include Calligraphic School of Art, Khartoum School, Abstract Arabesque, Hurufiyya movement and others.

Notable proponents include Ahmed Shibrain, Kamala Ishag and Ibrahim El-Salahi Hassan Sharif, Abdulrahman Al Soleiman, Bahman Mohasses, Mona Hatoum and Fouad Kamel.

 

 

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