KAHLIL GIBRAN, TWENTY DRAWINGS, 1919, Courtesy of Nijad and Zeina FaresĪs an artist and a writer, Gibran was one of the earliest proponents of Arab American identity. This emphasis on a state of in-betweenness - of mediating two worlds and moving effortlessly between them - has continued with subsequent generations of Arab American artists. Gibran was active in artistic circles in both Boston and New York and central to a group of writers who saw themselves as the link between developments in American literature and the changes that were occurring in the literary scenes of the Arab world. have been contributing to the progression of American art since the early 1900s, beginning with Kahlil Gibran, whose paintings and drawings were part of the international Symbolist movement that used subjectivity as a means of tapping into the psychological underpinnings of life at the turn of the century. Artists identifying with the Arab diaspora in the U.S. seeks to situate Arab and Arab American artists within the larger history of American art while emphasizing the rich history of cultural production that has come from the larger Arab American community. For more details, please visit the website.Ĭonverging Lines: Tracing the Artistic Lineage of the Arab Diaspora in the U.S. is on display at the MEI Art Gallery through Nov. Converging Lines: Tracing the Artistic Lineage of the Arab Diaspora in the U.S.
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