Jilali gharbaoui biography sample
Jilali gharbaoui biography sample
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Jilali Gharbaoui
Moroccan painter and sculptor
Jilali Gharbaoui (Arabic: الجيلالي الغرباوي; 1930–1971) was a Moroccan painter and sculptor from Jorf El Melha.[1] He is considered, along with Ahmed Cherkaoui, a pioneer of modernist art in Morocco.[1] Unlike other Moroccan modernist artists, his abstraction was based in brushstrokes and the "materiality of the paint" as opposed to Moroccan culture.[2] Gharbaoui suffered from severe mental illness and died of suicide in Paris in 1971.[1]
Life
He started studying art at the Academie des Arts in Fes.[2] He traveled to France in 1952.[3] With the assistance of the novelist Ahmed Sefrioui, then director of fine arts in Rabat, Gharbaoui was able to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[2] He studied for four years then worked at the Académie Julian for a year.[3]
He befriended the poet and painter Henri Michaux, the painters Hans Hartung a