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George Chamaa
Mr. George Chamaa was born and raised in Egypt in a Lebanese family. He has loved to draw and paint since he was a kid and after finishing high school he joined the Institute of Applied Arts in Giza, Egypt where he graduated in 1950 with a Diploma in Applied Arts.
While working in several advertising agencies in the Middle East, he discovered a contemporary world of expression where the applied art in the shape of cars, home appliances and many other consumer products were used as drawing material to convey a certain message to the general public.
This concept is not new. In the Middle Ages, sculptures, stained glass and fresco were used also to convey messages to the public of this period of time.
In 1960 George Chamaa emigrated from Egypt to Lebanon were he resided until Lebanon’s civil war.
In 1969 George Chamaa presented his experiment in artistic style for the first time in a private solo exhibition in Beirut. The public and the critics’ reactions were satisfactory and several works were sold.
In 1974 a second solo exhibition in Beirut, Lebanon including painting, sculptures and ceramics got the attention of the local art critics and many works were sold.
In 1975 the civil war started in Lebanon and lasted many years. George Chamaa had to curtail his artistic endeavors and left Beirut for Kuwait were he worked as a graphic artist in a Kuwaiti company.
In 1985, he immigrated to the
United States where he lives in Sherman Oaks, California.
He has been a U.S. citizen since 1990 and he continues to paint and create
graphically enhanced paintings using computers.
You can view his work at his virtual art gallery online at www.chamaa-art.com.
You can contact Mr. Chamaa at
gerogechmaa@hotmail.com or 818-994-1744.
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