Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui Explained

Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui
Birth Date:15 September 1945
Birth Place:Alexandria, Egypt
Nationality:Lebanese, Belgian
Other Names:Bassili Sehnaoui
Occupation:Artist
Known For:Painting, Writing and Art
Spouse:Marwan Sehnaoui (married 1974-present)
Children:Khalil Sehnaoui, Salim Sehnaoui
Relatives:Nicolas Sehnaoui (Cousin), Antoun Sehnaoui (Cousin)
Website:Mouna Sehnaoui

Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui (born 1945) is a Lebanese painter,[1] writer and artist.

Biography

Born in Egypt, Lebanese artist Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui attended the American University of Beirut[2] and the University of Arizona, where she studied Fine Arts.Sehnaoui works in a variety of formats ranging from painting, writing, design and sculpture. She has had solo exhibitions in Paris, Dubai, and Beirut. Sehnaoui currently lives and works in Beirut with husband Marwan, President of the Lebanese Order of Malta[3] and sons Salim Sehnaoui and Khalil Sehnaoui.

In the seventies, Bassili Sehnaoui was in charge of the Graphic Art Department of the Lebanese National Council of Tourism. She also produced designs for stamps, packaging, posters, and book illustrations and created films for the Lebanese public television station. She later learned painting and typography, two disciplines she taught in Lebanese universities.

Her style is influenced by a Middle Eastern cultural heritage as reflected in the flat treatment of colours in both Byzantine icons and Persian miniatures. The treatment of space is very personal and brings a new dimension to a figurative approach by the use of hieroglyphic –like symbols and “windows” that open to reveal an added aspect of the subject treated.[4]

Since the early 1990s, she has produced albums of lithographs based on Phoenician legends and studied porcelain painting, while still working as a designer and illustrator. Bassili Sehnaoui has been exhibiting art since the mid-sixties. Her seemingly naïve paintings most often reference her own surroundings, her country and its cultural heritage. The works suggest a very personal interpretation of space where shapes and line interpenetrate in colourful harmonies.

Work

Her work has won several Prizes and figures in the Museum of Prints, Alexandria; the Sursock Museum, Beirut; the Art Collection of the American University of Beirut; the Bank Audi Art Collection as well as many private collections around the world.

Sehnaoui also designed the famous Lebanon logo, now widely used, for the Ministry of Culture in the 1960s, as well as several posters encouraging tourism in the country.[5] She is also known for her paintings depicting the Lebanese civil war.[6] [7]

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Selected books

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Byblos, Lebanon's Ancient Port, Is Reborn . 31 December 2009 . The New York Times . 5 November 2015.
  2. Web site: Beirut: A World of Art . Fall 2009 . The American University of Beirut . AUB . 5 November 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141117100613/http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~webmgate/fall2008/article2.htm . 17 November 2014 . dead .
  3. Web site: Rencontres A Mokhtara Entre l'Ordre De Malte Et L'Association Abou Hassan Aref Halaoui . 17 November 2015 . L'Orient Le Jour . Orient-Le-Jour . 17 November 2015.
  4. Web site: Zéna Zalzal . Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui (se) libère (de) ses peintures de guerre - Zéna Zalzal - L'Orient-Le Jour . Lorientlejour.com . 2015-06-13 . 2016-02-21.
  5. Web site: Design And Gender Identity In Lebanon . 5 April 2019 . Olga Habre . NewsMedia SAL . 5 April 2019.
  6. Web site: Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui On Painting The Lebanese Civil War . 26 July 2012 . The Culture Trip . The Culture Trip . 5 November 2015.
  7. Web site: An Art Of War And Resilience . 23 June 2015 . The Daily Star . Daily Star . 5 November 2015.
  8. Web site: Exposition Of Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui @ Fine Art, Gallery Cherfan . 7 December 2012 . Mondanité . MOndanité . 5 November 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191608/http://www.mondanite.net/album/1092/mouna-bassili-sehnaoui . 4 March 2016 . dead .
  9. Web site: Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui Se Libere De Ses Peinturesd De Guerre . 13 June 2015 . Zena Zalzal . L'Orient-Le-Jour.
  10. Web site: Tout Comme Gibran Elle A Son Liban Sans Souillures . 11 December 2017 . Colette Khalaf . L'Orient-Le-Jour.
  11. Web site: Lebanese Artists Evoke Violent Past, Hopeful Future . 24 April 2010 . NPR . NPR . 5 November 2015.
  12. Web site: Bassili Sehnaoui Mouna . Beirut Exhibition Center . 2016-02-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170211164252/http://www.beirutexhibitioncenter.com/learn/artist/mouna-bassili-sehnaoui . 2017-02-11 . dead .

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