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  • Comment: Many of the inappropriate citations are from Zawyeh Gallery, in Ramallah and Al Hoash Gallery. Possible COI history. PigeonChickenFish (talk) 01:40, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: This draft was inappropriately tagged with templates for issues with "primary sources" in December 2023, and "unreliable sources" in September 2024; these template tags are for articles and not drafts. Part of the clean up that is needed is the replacement of commercial gallery citations with more reliable sources, see WP:RS. PigeonChickenFish (talk) 00:35, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: None of the sources discuss the art movement in any depth, they're brief mentions from sources which usually focus on Mansour. It might make more sense to add this there. BuySomeApples (talk) 18:02, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

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New Visions
نحو التجريب والإبداء
Years active1987–present
LocationPalestine
Major figuresSliman Mansour,
Vera Tamari,
Tayseer Barakat,
Nabil Anani
InfluencedBoycott, Divestment and Sanctions

The New Vision Movement (Arabic: نحو التجريب والإبداء, romanized: Nahwa al-Tajrib wa al-Ibda') was a Palestinian art movement that was founded in 1987 by the four artists Sliman Mansour, Vera Tamari, Tayseer Barakat, and Nabil Anani.[1][2][3]

History

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The movement was part of cultural resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestine at the time of the First Intifada.[1] The four New Vision Movement co-founders, Sliman Mansour, Vera Tamari, Tayseer Barakat and Nabil Anani, chose to boycott art supplies imported from Israel in favor of local natural materials, and began use traditional methods of craftsmanship to produce works of fine art such as paintings, posters, mixed media assemblage, and earthworks.[4][5] It is lauded as an example of 'committed art', bringing the political in symbolic form of the land (e.g. as mud, hay, leather) into the artwork.[6][1][7] It has been described as an "artists' precursor to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)," highlighting the continued centrality of nonviolent resistance to the Palestinian cause over time.[4] The art created within New Visions moved away from the symbolic to more abstract art. Its audience was broad and included targeting an international audience as well as the Palestinian public.[8] New Visions became a model for political art in Palestine, and has had a lasting impact on contemporary art practice.[1]

Influence

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The New Visions had an important influence on Palestinian art.[7] Dar El-Nimer for Arts and Culture and the Institute for Palestine Studies called the New Visions artists "four of the founding members of the modern art movement in Palestine".[5] The movement is considered to have ushered Palestinian fine art towards a more contemporary art practice.[8][7] In 2018, the A. M. Qattan Foundation (AMQF) honoured the New Visions art collective in a ceremony in Ramallah.[9] During the ceremony artist Khaled Hourani spoke about the impact and accomplishments of New Visions, which AMQF describes as having "set the foundations for contemporary practices of Palestinian visual arts".[9]

For Mansour, the New Visions movement was a turning point in his art production. He said of the shift:

"The intifada mainly liberated us. Our art became more expressive of ourselves and more abstract. We were no longer limited to the traditional way of doing art to please a specific public. For example, I began working with clay and this made me engage in sculpture.”[8]

In December 2024, The Palestinian Museum unveiled four murals by the four artist co-founders, celebrating the movement, and stating that the it remains relevant today, as Palestinian artists continue to express their daily lives and struggles through creative practice.[10][11][12][13]

Materials

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The First Intifada led the artists to question their use of art materials imported from Israel. Mansour recounts: "People were planting vegetables in their gardens so as not to buy anything from Israel. We thought, 'Why don’t we do the same as artists? Why should we buy paint from Israeli shops and then use it to paint against them?'."[14] The artists instead started using materials found in nature such as clay, chalk, animal glue, straw, mud, leather and natural plant-based dyes such as coffee, olive oil, henna, tea and spices, often described as an 'exploration of local media' in academic writing.[15][8][16][17] Both Mansour and Tamari worked with pottery clay with added hay to improve its consistency.[8] Tamari created works in this period featuring family groups in relaxed aspects and leisure activities such as chess and picnicing.[18] Barakat, a painter, used wood and fire as his primary art materials, a technique known as pyrography.[19][18] All four artists utilized assemblages in their work, drawing from traditions of Islamic art and geometric patterns.[8][20]

Exhibitions

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The New Visions collective began holding group exhibitions inspired by the potential of a free Palestine, and the role that art could play in civic resistance, in 1989. This is an incomplete, but representative selection:

Al-Wasiti Art Centre

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In 1994, the New Visions movement founded the Al-Wasiti Art Centre in a renovated traditional house in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem,[25] named after Yehya Al-Wasiti, the 13th century pioneer of Arab Painting.[26] The art centre had a permanent collection, a library, an art education unit and a temporary exhibition space.[5][4][19] The inauguaral exhibition was, From Exile to Jerusalem (1995), and it included the works of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Laila Shawa, Kamal Boullata and Vladimir Tamari.[5] Sliman Mansour served as the Director from 1996-2003.[5][27] In 2003, the art centre closed down; in 2005, its archive was donated to a Jerusalem-based non-profit cultural arts organisation, the Palestinian Art Court—al-Hoash, (meaning a courtyard in a traditional Palestinian architecture).[28][29] The archive now forms the basis of, Yura, the first digital platform Palestinian digital arts, supported by the A.M. Qattan foundation, which launched in 2022.[30] [29] Meanwhile, Vera Tamari co-founded the BirZeit University Ethnographic Museum in 2005, further demonstrating the ongoing legacy of the New Vision art movement.[6] [31]

Themes and symbolism

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New Visions artists focused on iconic representations of Palestinian culture and pastoral life. Yazid Anani recalls that these included representations of important aspects of Palestinian culture, traditional and contemporary: the "village, Jerusalem, refugees, the Israeli militaristic machine, prisoners, olive trees, women in embroidered traditional dresses".[1]

Common symbols used include colors from the Palestinian flag, village scenes, Tatreez (embroidery) motifs, chains and prison bars. Works commemorating martyrs would sometimes depict specific deceased individuals or would collage images related to their lives, and were often hung at their grave or home.[20]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Anani, Yazid; Toukan, Hanan (2014). "On Delusion, Art, and Urban Desires in Palestine Today: An Interview with Yazid Anani". The Arab Studies Journal. 22 (1): 208–229. ISSN 1083-4753. JSTOR 24877904.
  2. ^ "Vera Tamari, West Bank, Palestine – Olympia Rafah Mural". olympiarafahmural.org. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
  3. ^ "نحو التجريب والإبداع". The Palestinian Museum. Retrieved 26 Jan 2025.
  4. ^ a b c Halasa, Malu (2022-12-26). "The Creative Resistance in Palestinian Art". The Markaz Review. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Thawabeh, Omar (April 30, 2019). "Challenges of Identity: A Talk and Art Exhibition by Four of the Founding Members of the Modern Art Movement in Palestine" (PDF). Dalloul Art Foundation (DAF Beirut).
  6. ^ a b "VERA TAMARI - Artists". Dalloul Art Foundation. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
  7. ^ a b c Rogers, Sarah. "Sliman Mansour". Mathaf Encyclopedia of Modern Art and the Arab World. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
  8. ^ a b c d e f Kadi, Samar (12 May 2019). "How Palestinian art evolved under siege". The Arab Weekly.
  9. ^ a b Foundation, Qattan (August 9, 2018). "A. M. Qattan Foundation honours the New Visions collective". A. M. Qattan Foundation.
  10. ^ Motaz (2024-12-21). "أربعة فنانين وأربعة مشاريع ضخمة: المتحف الفلسطيني يستعيد روح جماعة "نحو التجريب والإبداع"". القدس العربي (in Arabic). Retrieved 2025-01-26.
  11. ^ "المتحف الفلسطيني يرفع الستار عن جداريّات فنّاني جماعة". WAFA Agency. Archived from the original on 2024-12-11. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
  12. ^ العربي 2 (2024-12-11). مجموعة "نحو التجريب والإبداع".. الفن الفلسطيني برؤى جديدة l ضفاف. Retrieved 2025-01-26 – via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ Roya News, Jordan (10 Dec 2024). "نحو التجريب والإبداء". Roya News. Retrieved 26 Jan 2025.
  14. ^ Chaves, Alexandra (May 30, 2021). "How the watermelon became a symbol of Palestinian resistance". The National.
  15. ^ Laïdi-Hanieh, Adila (Summer 2007). "In the Mirror of the Occupier: Palestinian Art through Israeli Eyes". Journal of Palestine Studies. 36 (4): 65–72. doi:10.1525/jps.2007.36.4.65. JSTOR 10.1525/jps.2007.36.4.65.
  16. ^ "The Khalid Shoman Collection | Darat al Funun". daratalfunun.org. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
  17. ^ "هناك ضوء لا ينطفيء - نحو التجريب والابداع - خليل رباح | Khazaen". www.khazaaen.org. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
  18. ^ a b Rogers, Sarah; Van der Vlist, Eline, eds. (2013). Arab Art Histories [قراءات في الفن العربي] (in English and Arabic). The Khalid Shoman Foundation. pp. 162–266. ISBN 9789082148404.
  19. ^ a b "Tayseer Barakat". The British Museum. Retrieved December 14, 2023.
  20. ^ a b Farhat, Maymanah (June 22, 2012). "On "Liberation Art" and Revolutionary Aesthetics: An Interview with Samia Halaby". Jadaliyya جدلية. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  21. ^ "The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive - أرشيف المتحف الفلسطيني الرقمي : نص : "نحو التجريب والإبداع"، نشرة تعريفية، 1989 [0261.04.0028]". palarchive.org. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
  22. ^ "Nabil Anani - Overview". Kristin Hjellegjerde. Retrieved 2025-01-24.
  23. ^ "Darat al Funun in Palestine". Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art. April 2018. Retrieved December 14, 2023.
  24. ^ "Gaza: Recalling The Collage Of A Place' By Tayseer Barakat". Selections Arts Magazine. July 2024.
  25. ^ "Cultural Centers". www.pecdar.ps. Retrieved 2025-01-24.
  26. ^ NYU Abu Dhabi, Archives and Special Collections Repository (26 Jan 2025). "Palestine: Al Wasiti Art Center (Jerusalem), 1994-1996". archivesspace.nyuad.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-24.
  27. ^ "The Palestinian arts scene, an overview". The Bethlehem Cultural Festival. Retrieved 2025-01-24.
  28. ^ "The Palestinian Art Court—al-Hoash: Connecting Palestinian Artists with the World". Jerusalem Story Project. Archived from the original on 2025-01-09. Retrieved 2025-01-24.
  29. ^ a b "YURA– Palestinian Visual Art Resources". This Week in Palestine. Retrieved 2025-01-24.
  30. ^ "Local Art Center Launches the First Digital Platform for Palestinian Visual Arts". Jerusalem Story Project. Archived from the original on 2024-08-11. Retrieved 2025-01-24.
  31. ^ "Vera Tamari | Museum". museum.birzeit.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-26.



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