"Hassan Massoudy's calligraphies are arranged to loosely follow
the seasons, beginning and ending with autumn: sombre, wintry hues
at one end, brilliant tones full of vibrant reds at the
other."--Venetia Porter
Hassan Massoudy's elegant calligraphy depicts the four seasons
of the garden. From the icy palettes of winter and the fading hues
of autumn to delicate spring growth and the dazzling sunshine and
blooms of summer, he captures in calligraphy what countless poets
have wrought with words.
Massoudy draws his seasonal inspirations from writers and
artists, including Kahlil Gibran, Henri Matisse, Lao Tzu, William
Blake, and Victor Hugo, as well as from Hungarian, Spanish,
Turkish, and Japanese proverbs.
Hassan Massoudy was born in Najaf, Iraq. He moved to France in
1969, where he studied at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. His work has been
exhibited throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, and
is in the permanent collections of the British Museum and the
Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, among others. Nineteen books
of his calligraphy have been published in France, along with his
autobiography, "Si loin de l'Euphrate: Une jeunesse d'artiste en
Irak."
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