TY - BOOK ID - 25434260 TI - Saloua Raouda Choucair AU - Morgan, Jessica AU - Coxon, Ann AU - Scheid, Kirsten AU - Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen PY - 2013 SN - 9781849761246 1849761248 PB - London: Tate Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - sculpting KW - painting [image-making] KW - Art KW - Choucair, Saloua Raouda KW - Art, Lebanese KW - Sculpture KW - Choucair, Saloua Raouda, KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Liban KW - Art, Lebanese - 20th century KW - Choucair, Saloua Raouda, - 1916-2017 - Exhibitions KW - Choucair, Saloua Raouda, - 1916-2017 - Criticism and interpretation KW - Choucair, Saloua Raouda, - 1916-2017 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25434260 AB - Saloua Raouda Choucair, born in 1916 in Beirut, was the first abstract artist in Lebanon, and her exhibition in 1947 at the Arab Cultural Gallery in Beirut is considered to have been the Arab world's first abstract painting display. In 1948 she left Lebanon and went to Paris, where she studied at the Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts and attended Fernand Leger's studio. In 1950, she was one of the first Arab artists to participate in the Salon des Realites Nouvelles in Paris. By 1962 she began to concentrate completely on sculpture, and by 1963, she was awarded the National Council of Tourism Prize for the execution of a stone sculpture for a public site in Beirut. Choucair's work has been considered as one of the best examples of the spirit of abstraction characteristic of Arabic visual and geometric art, apparently disconnected from the observation of nature. ER -