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1930 Morocco - 1971 Paris, France. Known for: Landscape and non-representational painting.
Considered to be the first Moroccan painter to use the non-representational style, Jilali Gharbaoui was orphaned at the age of ten and was placed in an orphanage. He attended highschool in Fez, the... Read full biography
Considered to be the first Moroccan painter to use the non-representational style, Jilali Gharbaoui was orphaned at the age of ten and was placed in an orphanage. He attended highschool in Fez, the third largest city in Morocco and then the Academy of the Arts in that city. In 1952, awarded a... Read full biography
Considered to be the first Moroccan painter to use the non-representational style, Jilali Gharbaoui was orphaned at the age of ten and was placed in an orphanage. He attended highschool in Fez, the third largest city in Morocco and then the Academy of the Arts in that city. In 1952, awarded a scholarship, he enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later attended the Academy Julian. Taking an interest in impressionism he became increasingly influenced by abstraction. Also in France, he... Read full biography
Considered to be the first Moroccan painter to use the non-representational style, Jilali Gharbaoui was orphaned at the age of ten and was placed in an orphanage. He attended highschool in Fez, the third largest city in Morocco and then the Academy of the Arts in that city. In 1952, awarded a scholarship, he enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later attended the Academy Julian. Taking an interest in impressionism he became increasingly influenced by abstraction. Also in France, he began having severe mental health . Returning to Morocco in 1955, he moved to Rabat and shortly after attempted suicide and was placed in a psychiatric hospital and from that time had problems with that type of illness. He spent time in Italy as... Read full biography
Considered to be the first Moroccan painter to use the non-representational style, Jilali Gharbaoui was orphaned at the age of ten and was placed in an orphanage. He attended highschool in Fez, the third largest city in Morocco and then the Academy of the Arts in that city. In 1952, awarded a scholarship, he enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later attended the Academy Julian. Taking an interest in impressionism he became increasingly influenced by abstraction. Also in France, he began having severe mental health . Returning to Morocco in 1955, he moved to Rabat and shortly after attempted suicide and was placed in a psychiatric hospital and from that time had problems with that type of illness. He spent time in Italy as well as Morocco and France. In San Francisco at the Museum of Modern Art, he received first prize in an exhibition in... Read full biography
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Considered to be the first Moroccan painter to use the non-representational style, Jilali Gharbaoui was orphaned at the age of ten and was placed in an orphanage. He attended highschool in Fez, the third largest city in Morocco and then the Academy of the Arts in that city. In 1952, awarded a scholarship, he enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later attended the Academy Julian. Taking an interest in impressionism he became increasingly influenced by abstraction. Also in France, he began having severe mental health
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