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Historically, Palestinian landscape art originally focused on a majority-Islamic depiction of the holy land. However, after the Nakba and subsequent displacement of Palestinians, Palestinian landscape art (similarly to all Palestinian art) began to have more of a nationalist subtext to explore Palestinians’ connection to their identity and ...
Palestinian artist and art historian Kamal Boullata describes "place" as one of the major thematic components of Palestinian art throughout its history. Proximity and distance from the historical Palestinian homeland and the relationship between the artist and his current place of residence is the key element moving Palestinian art.
Juliana Seraphim (born 1934), Palestinian-born Lebanese painter; Ismail Shammout (1930–2006), Palestinian-born Jordanian painter and art historian; Laila Shawa (born 1940), visual artist; Ahlam Shibli (born 1970), photographer; Nida Sinnokrot (born 1971) American installation artist, filmmaker, of Palestinian descent
Sophie Halaby (1906–1997) was a Palestinian watercolourist who depicted Jerusalem and its surrounding landscapes. She was among the first Arab women to study art in Paris, and returned to her homeland to teach, paint, and criticize British and Zionist colonialism.
Jumana al-Husseini (b. 1932) moved to Beirut with her family after their home in the outskirts of Jerusalem was hit by an Israeli bomb in 1948. [1] The Husseinis had previously fled to Beirut when Jumana's grandfather, Jamal al-Husseini, the Palestinian nationalist and founder of the Palestine Arab Party was exiled by the British following the Arab revolt of 1936–39 in Palestine.
A pro-Palestinian activist slashed a painting of the early 20th-century British foreign minister Arthur Balfour at Cambridge University on Friday, saying his 1917 declaration was the reason the ...
Juliana Seraphim (born 1934), Palestinian-born Lebanese painter Ismail Shammout (1930–2006), Palestinian-born Jordanian painter and art historian Laila Shawa (1940–2022), painter, sculptor, printmaker
BREAKING: Palestine Action spray and slash a historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Written in 1917, Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of ...