Khalifa Alqattan Explained

Khalifa Alqattan (Arabic خليفة القطان) (January 1934 in Old Kuwait City  - 27 July 2003) was a Kuwaiti pioneer artist. He was the first Kuwaiti artist to hold a solo exhibition in Kuwait. In the early 1960s, he founded a new art theory known as "circulism".^{[1] [2]}

His house was converted into an art museum in Kuwait known the Mirror House.^[3] It is a popular tourist attraction.

External links

• About Khalifa Alqattan.

Notes and References

1. Hussain . Muayad H. . PhD thesis . Modern Art from Kuwait: Khalifa Qattan and Circulism . University of Birmingham . 2012 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20161011005806/http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/3909/1/Hussain_12_PhD_v1.pdf . 11 October 2016.
2. Web site: Khalifa Qattan, Founder of Circulism. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129023638/http://www.khalifaqattan.com/about-khalifa-qattan/. 29 November 2014.
3. Web site: The Great Journey. Ibraaz. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20180127004349/https://www.ibraaz.org/interviews/163. 27 January 2018.