Nabil Anani ( Arabic: نبيل عناني born 1943), is a Palestinian artist [1] and one of the founders of the contemporary Palestinian art movement. [2]
After his graduation in 1969, from the faculty of Fine Arts at Alexandria University, [3] Anani returned to Palestine to start his career as an artist and trainer at the UN training college in Ramallah. [4] His first exhibition in Jerusalem was in 1972 and has since exhibited widely in Europe, North America, the Middle East, North Africa and Japan. He was appointed in 1998 as the head of the League of Palestinian Artists and was a key player in establishing the first International Academy of Art in Palestine. [5] Because his art was an expression of collective identity it encountered the military censorship of Israeli authorities, the combined use of four colors of the Palestinian flag was prohibited and he, together with the other members of the league, was subjected to arrest and interrogation. [6]
Nabil was also awarded the first Palestinian National Prize for Visual Art in 1997 by Yasser Arafat. [7]
During his career, Nabil Anani was commissioned to work on building memorials in Palestine:
Nabil Anani ( Arabic: نبيل عناني born 1943), is a Palestinian artist [1] and one of the founders of the contemporary Palestinian art movement. [2]
After his graduation in 1969, from the faculty of Fine Arts at Alexandria University, [3] Anani returned to Palestine to start his career as an artist and trainer at the UN training college in Ramallah. [4] His first exhibition in Jerusalem was in 1972 and has since exhibited widely in Europe, North America, the Middle East, North Africa and Japan. He was appointed in 1998 as the head of the League of Palestinian Artists and was a key player in establishing the first International Academy of Art in Palestine. [5] Because his art was an expression of collective identity it encountered the military censorship of Israeli authorities, the combined use of four colors of the Palestinian flag was prohibited and he, together with the other members of the league, was subjected to arrest and interrogation. [6]
Nabil was also awarded the first Palestinian National Prize for Visual Art in 1997 by Yasser Arafat. [7]
During his career, Nabil Anani was commissioned to work on building memorials in Palestine: