© Artistic Intifada
Creator: Unknown | 2012
“An anonymous group of Palestinian graffiti artists penetrated the neighborhoods of occupied Jerusalem overnight with political messages of resistance and to “Remember Gaza”. These pieces of graffiti were painted over public spaces, walls, doors and windows of houses in over thirty locations in the ethnically cleansed neighborhoods of Baqaa and Talbiyye.
Creator: Unknown | 2012
“From Poland, with Love, In solidarity with the Palestinian struggle in Bethlehem, West Bank”
Creator: Unknown | 2012
“Camp Aida (Palestinian refugee camp established in 1950), West Bank”
Creator: Nabil Anani | Unknown
“Nabil Anani (b.1943, Latroun, Palestine) is one of the most prominent Palestinian artists working today. He is considered by many as a key founder of the contemporary Palestinian art movement. On graduating in Fine Art from Alexandra University, Egypt [in 1969], Anani returned to his native Palestine and began a fruitful career as an artist and a teacher trainer at the UN training college in Ramallah. Anani held his first exhibition in Jerusalem in 1972 and has since exhibited widely in Europe, North America, the Middle East, North Africa and Japan – both as an individual artist and with groups of his Palestinian contemporaries. Anani is a multi-talented artist, for he is a painter, a ceramicist and a sculptor. He pioneered the use of local media such leather, henna, natural dyes, Papier-mâché, wood, beads and copper. Over the past four decades, Anani has built an impressive catalogue of outstanding, innovative and unique art. Anani was awarded the first Palestinian National Prize for Visual Art in 1997 and became the head of the League of Palestinian Artists in 1998. On retiring from his teaching post in 2003, Anani has dedicated much of his time to voluntary pastimes, leading on the League’s activities and playing a key role in the establishment of the first International Academy of Fine Art in Palestine – In 2006, Anani won the prestigious King Abdullah II Arab World Prize for fine Art. He is based in Ramallah.”
Creator: Mahmoud Taha | Unknown
“This exhibition presents ceramic works and limited edition prints by renowned ceramist Jordanian Mahmoud Taha. Over the past four decades, Taha has been focusing on Jerusalem and depicting the dire conditions of the Palestinian people. Through the use of calligraphy he highlights the rich legacy of the Islamic civilization. Born in Yafa, Palestine in 1942, the artist obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts specializing in ceramics from the Baghdad Academy of Fine Arts in 1968. While in Baghdad, he studied Arabic calligraphy with the late Hashem Al-Khattat.”
Creator: Yazan Khalili | Unkown
Working out of Ramallah, Syrian-born artist Yazan Khalili created this photo-narrative focused on the pervasive cultural metaphors of darkness and the sea. The car lot depicted is located near the border of Area A and Area C and symbolizes one of many barriers. The artist explains, “the guys there allowed us to take photos as long as they didn’t appear in them. Some of the cars are stolen, some are legally dumped. They said this makes it harder for the Israeli army to figure out which is which. We drove west that night, but we didn’t reach the sea… We stopped just after the car dump, we were not allowed to drive further west. I wanted to take a photo of the newly found sea… But, by mistake, the camera fell off the tripod. The sea at that point receded back endlessly, far away into the west.”
Creator: Ahlam Al Faqih | Unknown
“Al-Faqih is a recent graduate from the Fine Arts Department in Al-Quds University.”
