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Born in 1918 in Damascus, Syria, Nazem al Jaafari is the last surviving modernist pioneer of his generation
and is considered an innovator of the use of Impressionism in Syrian painting, which reached its height in the
1950s.
In the early 1940s he was part of a group of young Syrian artists who were sent to study in Egypt
under the French Mandate. After graduating from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1947, he returned to
Syria to work as an art teacher in secondary schools and t (showing 500 of 1292 characters). |
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