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Aref El Rayess

Aref El Rayess was a Lebanese painter and sculptor. He started his career as a self-taught artist exhibiting for the first time in 1948. Rayess participated in many group shows. He has held more than fifteen solo shows in Lebanon. Aref El Rayess was a prolific artist, mainly known as a painter, he also practiced etching, sculpture and tapestry. His work is widely based on the human being and its relationship to nature and history, stating that "Man is a unity that embodies both the means and the goals..." In the 1960s his painting evolved around Man and the Third World and in the early 1970s, he unexpectedly presented an exhibition related to whorehouses off Martyrs' Square, Beirut. With the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War, El Rayess was one of the artists who interpreted the tragic events in art. Staying in Algiers, he produced in 1976 a series of etchings entitled The Road to Peace. Apart from the etching series, oil paintings depicting the horror of war were featured in the exhibition. Aref El Rayess also developed a practice of abstract sculpture.

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Date and place of birt:24 october 1928, Aaley, Lebanon
Date and place of death:2005, Lebanon
Nationality:Lebanon
Period of activity: XX, XXI century
Specialization:Artist, Engraver, Landscape painter, Marine painter, Painter, Portraitist
Genre:Nude art, Landscape painting, Marine art, Portrait
Art style:Contemporary art
Technique:Engraving, Etching, Lithography, Oil, Oil on canvas, Oil on panel, Pastel, Tapestry
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