Jamil Molaeb

Jamil Molaeb
Native name جميل ملاعب
Born 1948
Baissour, Lebanon
Nationality Lebanese
Education

Jamil Molaeb (born 1948; Arabic: جميل ملاعب‎‎, jamīl mulā‘ib) is a Lebanese artist.

Life

Molaeb was born in 1948[1]:169 in Baissour in Aley District,[2] in the Chouf historic region of Lebanon, where he still lives.[3] He studied in the faculty of fine arts of the Lebanese University in Beirut, where he worked under Paul Guiragossian and Chafic Abboud.[3] He spent a year in Algeria in the 1970s.[3]

In 1984 he signed up for an MFA at the Pratt Institute in New York City, in the United States, after which he completed a doctorate in art education at Ohio State University. He returned to Lebanon in 1989 and began teaching at the Lebanese American University and at the national Lebanese University in Beirut.[3] Between 1991 and 1992 he was secretary of the Lebanese Artists Association for Painters & Sculptors.[2]

Work

Molaeb has made drawings, mosaics, sculptures and wood-cuts as well as paintings. His style is flexible; some of his work shows the influence of Ancient Egyptian, Babylonian and Sumerian art.[3]

He received a scuplture award from the Sursock Museum in the 1960s.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Richard A. Chahine (1982). Cent ans d'art plastique au Liban, 1880-1980 (in French). Beyrouth: Chahine Gallery.
  2. 1 2 Enchanted by the heritage of Pharaohs and Babylon. Al Arabiya News. Accessed March 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Molaeb Jamil Expose à Beyrouth Exhibition Center (in French). Beyrouth Exhibition Center. Accessed March 2016.

Further reading

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