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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Tawfiq Al-Sayyid (1939-1996) is a Palestinian visual artist , born in the city of Safad . His family migrated to Jordan as a result of the Nakba . Tawfiq studied elementary and middle school at Khalid bin Al-Walid School in 1950. He continued his university education at the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Madrid , Spain , in 1965, graduating from the Department of Drawing and Photography . He then completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy, in the period between 1970-1979. He then returned to Jordan and worked as a cartoonist and editor for Al-Shorti Magazine in 1966. He also worked for Al-Dustour newspaper in 1967, in addition to working as an interior designer in Saudi Arabia in 1968. He died in Jordan in 1996.
His artistic style
His paintings were academic in nature, with a school-like tendency connected to documentary realism at the beginning of his work, and most of his works were portraits. Then he turned to expressive realism with an influential symbolism, which is saturated with the national and human subject, so he drew and photographed the features of his plastic music filled with local Arab features and characters.
Solo exhibitions
Exhibition at the British Council , Jordan in 1968.
Exhibition at the Silver Jubilee of the French Cultural Center, Jordan, 1982.
Group exhibitions
Exhibition at the Coptic College in Jerusalem in 1959.
Exhibition in Nablus in 1960.
Peace Exhibition, Paris, 1960.
Modern Art Exhibition , Cairo , 1963.
Painters from Nablus, Palestine Photography Studio, Nablus, 1965.
Joint exhibition with artist Sheila Morris at the British Council, Jordan, 1968.
Beltrina Competition, Italy 1977.
Cairo International Biennale, Cairo, 1984.
Awards
Tawfiq Al-Sayed won many awards, including:
Peace Exhibition Award, Paris, 1960.
Gold medal at the Italian Beltrina Competition in 1977.
Cairo International Biennale Medal 1984.
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