Disfigured Forms

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Dia Azzawi (Iraqi, b. 1939)
Disfigured Forms
signed and dated in Arabic (lower left); signed and dated 'Dhia Al-Azzawi 1965', and signed, titled and dated in Arabic (on the reverse)
oil on canvas, diptych
43½ x 34in. (110.5 x 86.4cm.) overall
Painted in 1965 (2)

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Dia Azzawi studied art and archeology at the Faculty of Arts at Baghdad University. With encouragement from Jewad Selim, pioneer of modern Iraqi art, he began to combine techniques of contemporary painting with motifs drawn from the Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian heritage of Iraq, and with geometric patterning drawn and arabesque from the contemporary tribal culture of the desert. From the mid-1960s these elements formed the basis of his painting.

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