Hassan Massoudy
(Iraqi, born 1944)
Biography
Hassan Massoudy is an Iraqi artist renowned for his use of traditional Arabic calligraphy in his works. Massoudy often bases his compositions on texts from poets, authors, and philosophers from both the Arab and European culture. “Despite the fact that the codes of beauty differ from one civilization to another, everyone can take something from them and enrich their soul or their art,” he has said. “I like the Zen gardens of Kyoto, the ordered ceramics of Isfahan, a painting by Holbein, but also Picasso’s broken lines.” Born in 1944 in Najaf, Iraq, Massoudy moved to Baghdad in the early 1960s to study calligraphy. In 1969, he relocated to Paris to escape the rising conflicts in his country. Here he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied a number of traditional Western painting techniques. After receiving his degree in 1975, Massoudy traveled through Europe with Arabesque, a work incorporating performance, music, poetry, and calligraphy. The artist continues to live and work in Paris, France.
Hassan Massoudy Artworks
Hassan Massoudy
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.jpg "There is no way to peace, peace is the way...., 2016")
.jpg "The rose's rarest essence lives in the..., 2017")
.jpg "On ne peut trouver de poesie nulle part..., 2004")
.jpg "L'amour vainc tout. Love conquers all...., 2015")
.jpg "Seul celui qui n'est pas amoureux voit dans..., 2007")
.jpg "Where is there a musician to interpret the..., 2012")
.jpg "The heart is a guide for the heart as soon..., 2007")
.jpg "Where there's a will, there's a way...., 2012")
.jpg "Nothing is real other than dreams and love...., 2010")
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