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Jewad Selim

Jewad Selim (1921 - 1961) was active/lived in Iraq.  Jewad Selim is known for Painting.

Jewad Selim (1921 - 1961)
Jewad was sent to Europe on government scholarships to further his art education, first to the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris (1938-39) and then to the Academia di Belli Arte in Rome (1939-40). The hostilities of World War II resulted in Jewad cutting short his studies and returning to Baghdad, where he began part-time work restoring Sumerian and Assyrian reliefs in the Department of Archaeology at the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities. He also taught at the Institute of Fine Arts, where he founded the sculpture department.

During this wartime period in Baghdad, Jewad and a group of Iraqi artists became acquainted with several Polish officers who were painters, two of whom had studied with Pierre Bonnard. The Polish artists introduced the Jewad and his artist friends to the latest European styles and concepts, leading Jewad to comment in his diary that, after discussion with the Poles, he understood the importance of color and its application; and only t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1102 characters.]  Artist bio

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