16 Facts About Iraqi art

Iraqi art is one of the richest art heritages in world and refers to all works of visual art originating from the geographical region of what is present day Iraq since ancient Mesopotamian periods.

Iraq's Iraqi art has a deep heritage that extends back in time to ancient Mesopotamian Iraqi art.

Sasanian Iraqi art is best represented in metalwork, jewellery, architecture and wall-reliefs.

Problems associated with documenting a complete picture of Iraqi art have been compounded by the fact that many 20th-century artists, art historians and philosophers have been forced into exile, where they are isolated from their heritage and current practices.

Now known as the Baghdad School, this movement of Islamic Iraqi art was characterised by representations of everyday life and the use of highly expressive faces rather than the stereotypical characters that had been used in the past.

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Iraqi art wrote in the three dominant languages of his time: Arabic, Persian, and Turkish.

Traditional Iraqi art, which included metal-work, rug-making and weaving, glass-blowing, ceramic tiles, calligraphy and wall murals were widely practised during the 19th century.

Poetry and verse remains a major art form in modern Iraq and Iraqi poets were inspired by the literature of the 15th and 16th-centuries when Iraq was the centre of Arabic world.

Iraqi art poets, including Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, often turned to Iraqi art folklore which they often integrated with Western mythology.

Iraqi art is considered one of the most influential Arab poets because he was the first to develop the free form style of poetry, and therefore a prime mover in the development of modernist poetry.

Contemporary Iraqi art poetry is considerably freer than traditional verse, and is imbued with social and political awareness.

Iraqi art founded a photographic studio and practiced this profession for many years.

Important 20th-century Iraqi art photographers include: Amri Salim, Hazem Bak, Murad Daghistani, Covadis Makarian, Sami Nasrawi, Ahmed Al-Qabbani, Jassem Al-Zubaidi, Fouad Shaker and Rashad Ghazi amongst others.

The photographer, Latif al-Ani, who is often described as the "father of Iraqi art photography", was very much concerned with documenting cosmopolitan Iraqi art life in the 1950s, as he saw it.

The architect, Chadirji, who wrote a seminal book on Iraqi art architecture, called this approach international regionalism.

Shortages of Iraqi art materials were commonplace in the aftermath of war.