Self-portrait Iraq
Jawad Saleem
Ankara 1919 — Baghdad 23.01.1961
Jewad Selim was an Iraqi painter and sculptor. He became an influential artist through his involvement with the Iraqi Baghdad Modern Art Group, which encouraged artists to explore techniques that combined both Arab heritage and modern art forms. He is considered to be one of Iraq's greatest 20th-century sculptors. Saleem consciously included Assyrian and Babylonian architectural features into his artworks - and was one of the first Iraqi artists to forge links with Iraq's ancient civilisations and their artistic traditions. Examples of his work are held in the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Art.
1919–1961