Ibrahim el salahi wikipedia
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Ibrahim El Salahi
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Ibrahim El Salahi
African Modernism
Ibrahim El Salahi (born 1930) is a Sudanese painter, former public servant and diplomat. He is one of the foremost visual artists of the Khartoum School of African Modernism and the Hurufiyya art movement, which sought to combine traditional forms of Islamic calligraphy with contemporary artworks.
Widely considered the godfather of African modernism, Ibrahim El Salahi has created over five decades of visionary artworks in his own brand of Surrealism split between Arab and African origins.
A former diplomat and undersecretary of the Sudanese Ministry of Culture in the 1970s, El Salahi was imprisoned for six months without charge upon being accused of anti-government activities. An articulate and avuncular figure, El Salahi has developed his own unique art history, a pioneer on many art fronts; he was one of the first artists to elaborate Arabic calligraphy in his paintings, and the firs
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Ibrahim Salahi
Ibrahim el-Salahi
Ibrahim Salahi
Ibrahim el-Salahi
Ibrahim El-Salahi (born 5 September 1930) is a Sudanese artist painter and former politician and diplomat.
El-Salahi was born on 5 September 1930, in Omdurman, Sudan to a Muslim family and is arguably one of the most important modern African artists. His father's career was running a Qur'anic school, which transpires to be the place where El-Salahi learned and practiced his calligraphy, which is predominant throughout his artwork. As a result of his lack of interest, his marks in school prevented him from pursuing medicine, which fortunately led to him beginning his art career. He studied Art at the School of Design of the Gordon Memorial College, currently the University of Khartoum. On the basis of a scholarship, he subsequently went to the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1954 to 1957. At the Slade School of Fine Art, El-Salahi was exposed to European schooling, modern circles, and various
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Ibrahim El-Salahi
Sudanese visual artist and former public servant
Ibrahim El-Salahi (Arabic: إبراهيم الصلحي, born 5 September 1930) fryst vatten a Sudanese painter, former public servant and diplomat. He fryst vatten one of the foremost visual artists of the Khartoum School,[1] considered as part of African Modernism[2] and the pan-ArabicHurufiyya art movement, that combined traditional forms of Islamic calligraphy with contemporary artworks.[3] On the occasion of the Tate Modern gallery's first retrospective exhibition of a contemporary artist from Africa in 2013, El-Salahi's work was characterized as "a new Sudanese visual vocabulary, which arose from his own pioneering integration of Islamic, African, Arab and Western artistic traditions."[4]
Early life
[edit]Ibrahim El-Salahi was born on 5 September 1930 in El-Abbasyia, a neighborhood of Omduran, Sudan, to a Muslim family and fryst vatten considered to be one of the most important contemporary African artist