{"product_id":"saloua-raouda-choucair-anglais-9781849761246","title":"Saloua Raouda Choucair \/anglais","description":"\u003cp\u003eSaloua 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 worlds 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 Legers 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. Her continued success and string of awards in Lebanon culminated in a retrospective exhibition at the Beirut Exhibition Center in 2011. Choucairs 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. Firmly believing in the arithmetical basis of Islamic art  she has long rejected figurative thinking and relinquished all symbolic or iconic references. Saloua Raouda Choucairs work has not been exhibited widely outside of Lebanon  and this will be the first time a new audience can see and appreciate a long underexposed and truly progressive artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651789283381,"sku":"ByrdShop_1849761248","price":516.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781849761246.jpg?v=1781840823","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/saloua-raouda-choucair-anglais-9781849761246","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}