Leila Nseir
Leila Nseir was born in the town of El Hifah, north of Latakia, in 1941, and began painting while she was still 14 years old. She received a government scholarship to study in Egypt and graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1963. She began her artistic career at the height of Syrian modernism, and was an active figure in the emerging art scene. She has a friendship with Louay Kayali, and the two dealt with similar themes and themes such as life and death, human conflicts, and issues of hard class. Her subsequent work is influenced by her years in Egypt, where she draws inspiration from ancient Egyptian mythology to address contemporary issues.
Nseir uses various materials and adopts various techniques, and is known for presenting women in her paintings as workers at advanced stages of their pregnancy, and even as martyrs. She broke the cultural norms of her time, and the controversy was not a source of concern to her, either in her business or in her life: "I was the first woman in Syria to wear trousers and I sat in the Rawdaa cafe in Damascus, and my trousers were tight and glued to me. it was my intention to open doors to others ".
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