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- Country of residence: Palau
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Ahmad Nawash is a Palestinian plastic artist (born in Ein Karem, Jerusalem in 1934). He received a diploma from the Academy of Arts - Rome in 1964, with distinction. He studied lithography at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, France. He held three exhibitions in Rome and one in Baghdad in 1966 and in Damascus in 1967, and held more than ten personal exhibitions in Amman.
He was apprenticed by the famous artist George Rayes in Paris, who at that time testified that the artist Ahmed Nawash showed an original innovation and maturity in his artistic talents since he joined his workshop at the School of Fine Arts in 1975, where lithography enabled him to discover a new track that suits his world and was able to gain strength Creative mastery of art, and the use of (silver water, nitric acid) has given it a different color and density that deserves attention, not only for the techniques that it controls its implementation, but also for the surprising, surprising and strange contents of its innovations, which are the characteristics of a genuine innovator. Until 1985, the artist Nawash had held more than thirty exhibitions depicting human issues with simplicity, strength and distinction in Jerusalem, Amman, Paris, Baghdad and some cities of Jordan, and participated in group exhibitions in Amman, Cyprus, Kuwait, Germany and the traveling exhibition of Arab civilization at the time in Europe, and if he was more than a critic In that period, he referred to the relationship of his characters with the arts of caricature, but this did not put the artist and his experience in the focus of serious criticism, and did not receive the supposed care provided by the possibilities of communicating with the creative act later.
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His exhibition at Darat al Funun is part of the activities commemorating the Palestinian Nakba, in which Suha Shoman, the plastic artist Ahmed Nawash and the caricaturist, the martyr Naji Al-Ali, under the title “Sixty Years”, where he displayed in the Blue House a number of the most important caricatures of Naji Al-Ali, all of which are related to the Palestinian tragedy. And the political events that followed the 1967 war, all of which express the bitter irony of Al-Ali and reflect his intelligence in capturing the event and the current moment and turning it into a caricature. The artist Ahmed Nawash’s exhibition included a number of memorial paintings, through which he recovered images from the Palestinian people’s struggle journey and their dispersal in exile far from the homeland. He was also inspired by the Palestinian popular life in a number of cities and villages in his paintings.
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