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Jamaah NazhanThe Villagers - Abstract Figurative Syrian Middle Eastern Oil Portraits Painting
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A beautiful Syrian abstract oil on canvas depicting female villagers, by Jumaah Nazhan.
The artist is very interesting as was the only artist who continued to produce art under Islamic State occupation. He escaped to Damascus in 2015 and later exhibited in London.
Artist: Jumaah Nazhan (Syrian, 20th century)
Title: The Villagers
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 14 x 12 inches (36 x 31 cm)
Jumaah Nazhan, the only artist known to have worked secretly in an Islamic State (IS)-controlled area, are the focus of a new gallery in London’s Mayfair. The Stories Art Gallery, which opened in October, champions artists who take a non-political approach in their work to challenge violent stereotypes of the county.
Trained at the Institute of Fine Arts in Damascus, Nazhan was working as an art teacher at a school in Deir al-Zour when the town was occupied by IS in Syria’s civil war. “In the first year, IS allowed people to work, to go to school and get salaries. Then they became stronger, and schools were closed; only Islamic schools were allowed,” Nazhan says. The artist smuggled around 30 works out of the IS-controlled area of Deir al-Zour to a gallery in Damascus in order to raise money. “I was determined, because I wanted to continue to live,” he says.
In 2015, he escaped to Damascus with his family. If he had been caught, he says: “I think I would have been beheaded because I was focusing on minarets and churches” from an area that had a significant Armenian Christian population. “If they had seen a cross I would have been [killed].”
Nazhan’s works are mostly abstracted townscapes. Under IS, he worked on cardboard coated with acrylic and glue, mostly in black and white. Only in the safety of Damascus did he start to use colour again. “He is inspired by Klimt but he has his own style,” says Manas Ghanem, the director of Stories Art Gallery. Ghanem’s own collection includes several works by the artist, which she hopes will be acquired by a museum.
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