Representative work by Mohammad El Rawas
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Artist

Mohammad El Rawas

b. 1951, Beirut, Lebanon · Based in Beirut, Lebanon

  • MA in Printmaking, Slade School of Fine Art, London (1981)
  • Institut des Beaux-Arts, Lebanese University (1975)
  • Painting
  • Assemblage
  • Printmaking
  • Constructed Relief

Mohammad El Rawas is a seminal Lebanese painter and printmaker celebrated for complex multi-layered assemblage paintings that incorporate balsa wood, metal wire, photomechanical transfers, and miniature architectural elements. His meticulous postmodern compositions interrogate classical art history, pop culture, and the fragmented collective memories of wartime Lebanon.

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