Eman Al Farran - Artist

Life is too busy and rarely we have a chance to stop and look inside ourselves. But during the pandemic, we were forced to stop and look to see there are many things in life other than work. And , here I discovered my talent and starting painting none stop. I love oil , paster and charcoal painting, I love painting portrait and horses. Recently start painting on bags. the learning journey is limitless and each day , I try to learn something new. I can't define my self with one type of painting as my passion to painting grows everyday and everywhere.

Oussama Diab Artist

Oussama Diab applies a conceptual approach to painting by exploiting the stylistic variants of the medium as emotive prompts in order to explore how form can articulate the urgency of sociopolitical issues. 

Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, since 2015, Syrian-Palestinian artist Oussama Diab has made a name for himself through several collective exhibitions in the Emirates, in Egypt and in Canada. His dynamic, expressive work seeks to engage in humanity’s progress, which is why he focuses on perpetuating predecessors, who he admits have influenced him. 

As such, one may notice a touch of Picasso, but also Basquiat and Munch. “Why, he says, doesn’t history repeat itself?”. In this artistic spiral, Oussama Diab, who was born living and breathing art, establishes a link here, presenting, for example, this piece, which is both complex and highly realistic, and which he christened “Kings, Masks and Other Things”.

Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson (Icelandic: Ólafur Elíasson; born 5 February 1967)[is an Icelandic–Danish artist known for sculptured and large-scaled installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer's experience.

In 1995, Olafur established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research. In 2014, Olafur and his long-time collaborator – German architect Sebastian Behmann – founded Studio Other Spaces, an office for architecture and art.

Olafur represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and later that year installed The Weather Project, which has been described as "a milestone in contemporary art", in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London.

African American Artist - Kara Walker

Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. Walker was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 1997, at the age of 28, becoming one of the youngest ever recipients of the award.  She has been the Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University since 2015.

Walker is regarded as among the most prominent and acclaimed Black American artists working today.

Walker was born in 1969 in Stockton, California.  Her father, Larry Walker, was a painter and professor.  Her mother Gwendolyn was an administrative assistant.  A 2007 review in the New York Times described her early life as calm, noting that "nothing about [Walker's] very early life would seem to have predestined her for this task. Born in 1969, she grew up in an integrated California suburb, part of a generation for whom the uplift and fervor of the civil rights movement and the want-it-now anger of Black Power were yesterday's news." 

When Walker was 13, her father accepted a position at Georgia State University. They settled in the city of Stone Mountain.  The move was a culture shock for the young artist. In sharp contrast with the multi-cultural environment of coastal California, Stone Mountain still held Ku Klux Klan rallies. At her new high school, Walker recalls, "I was called a 'nigger,' told I looked like a monkey, accused (I didn't know it was an accusation) of being a 'Yankee.'" 

Walker received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994.  Walker found herself uncomfortable and afraid to address race within her art during her early college years, worrying it would be received as "typical" or "obvious"; however, she began introducing race into her art while attending Rhode Island School of Design for her Master's.

Walker recalls reflecting on her father's influence: "One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad's lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw. I remember thinking: 'I want to do that, too,' and I pretty much decided then and there at age 2½ or 3 that I was an artist just like Dad."

Jean Michel Basquiat - African American Artist

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a Neo-Expressionist painter in the 1980s. He is best known for his primitive style and his collaboration with pop artist Andy Warhol.

Who Was Jean-Michel Basquiat?
Jean-Michel Basquiat first attracted attention for his graffiti under the name "SAMO" in New York City. He sold sweatshirts and postcards featuring his artwork on the streets before his painting career took off. He collaborated with Andy Warhol in the mid-1980s, which resulted in a show of their work. Basquiat died on August 12, 1988, in New York City.

Early Life
Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 22, 1960. With a Haitian-American father and a Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat's diverse cultural heritage was one of his many sources of inspiration.

A self-taught artist, Basquiat began drawing at an early age on sheets of paper his father, an accountant, brought home from the office. As he delved deeper into his creative side, his mother strongly encouraged him to pursue his artistic talents.

Basquiat first attracted attention for his graffiti in New York City in the late 1970s, under the name "SAMO." Working with a close friend, he tagged subway trains and Manhattan buildings with cryptic aphorisms.