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Muhammad Bushnaq

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Muhammad Bushnaq (1934 - May 26, 2017) is a Palestinian plastic artist. He is considered one of the symbols of the plastic movement in Palestine, Jordan and Kuwait. He was known for his abundant artistic production, and he won a number of awards.

his biography
Muhammad Bushnaq was born in the village of al-Sheikh in the Haifa district in 1934. After the Nakba of 1948, he moved to the West Bank and joined the Kadoorie Institute in Tulkarm, where he obtained a diploma in the field of "educational rehabilitation".

He traveled to Kuwait in 1954, where he worked as a teacher in a number of schools there, and in 1956 he held his first exhibition to be the first plastic exhibition to be held in Kuwait. Kuwaiti. In 1990 he moved to reside from Kuwait to the Jordanian capital, Amman.

his death
Muhammad Bushnaq died in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on May 26, 2017, at the age of 83.

They said about him
Former President of the Jordanian Plastic Artists Association, Ghazi Enaim, saying about Muhammad Bushnaq: “One of the few Arab artists who combined culture and conscious artistic thought, and has a long artistic history full of works that represent a special case in the Arab sculpture movement, and he is among those who greatly enriched the Jordanian and Kuwaiti plastic arenas One of the works that contributed to laying the first building blocks in them.
The Syrian art critic Ratib Ghouthani said: "The artist Muhammad Bushnaq has been guided to sculpt a special style, avoiding repeating the references of other creators, avoiding falling into the chaos of hybrid forms, and his experience possesses a self-privacy that is independent of other direct influences."

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awards
Bushnaq received a number of awards and honors, including:

Silver Medal for Sculpture, 1972, for the sculptural work in which he participated in the fourth public exhibition in Kuwait.
Bronze Medal for Sculpture, for his participation in the first art exhibition of the Kuwait Teachers Association.
Bronze Medal for Sculpture, 1974, for his participation in the Fifth Exhibition in Kuwait.
The second prize of the Sixth Kuwait Exhibition for Arab Plastic Artists, for his participation in the Statue of "Resilience and Resistance".
The second prize of the Seventh Kuwait Exhibition for Arab Plastic Artists, for his participation in the painting "The Scream".
Third Prize for Painting at the Alexandria Biennale, 1984

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