Nassir Chaura
Nassir Shaura Born in Damascus in 1920 and died in 1992, began his career in the world of painting since he was in school, then moved to Italy in the late 1930s to study fine art. During the turbulent period prior to the outbreak of World War II, Shura left Italy for Egypt to eventually graduate from the photography department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1947.
Shaura was greatly influenced by impressionism, especially in his early works, and landscape paintings and scenes from the old neighbourhoods of Damascus were highly praised by critics for their high sensitivity to color and light. The mid-1960s saw Italian artist Guido Largina come to Damascus to teach abstract painting at her university. As was the case at the time for many Syrian artists, Shaura began to enter into experimentation in his work. Finally, he settled on a method that blended impressionism with abstraction and maintained it for the remainder of his artistic career.
Exhibitions
Syrian Eyes
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