Images of Eyes Gallery II
Oil Paintings by Ismail Fatah Al-Turk
Iraq

Images courtesy of Iraqi Art Page (iraqiart.com)

Ismail Fatah Al-Turk, best known for his turquoise Martyr's Monument, died of cancer July 21, 2004.  He was 69.  His Martyr's Monument is a giant sculpture of two egg halves. Between the two halves is a twisted Iraqi flag, and the division of the egg is said to symbolize allowing the anguished souls of the dead to soar free.

Ismail Fatah Al-Turk was born in Basrah in 1934.  He obtained an MFA degree in Rome in 1962.  On his return to Iraq, he taught sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad.  A first-prize winner of Arab artists in Italy, his oil paintings and other works have been exhibited in Rome, Baghdad, and Beirut.  

''Al-Turk was a great artist who left a significant impression on Iraqi art, and he was one of the vanguards of the modern art renaissance," said Fadhel al-Azzawi, an Iraqi poet and art critic who lives in Berlin and who knew Mr. Turk.  Other friends said Mr. Turk lived for his art.  

Untitled image by Ismail Fatah Al-Turk
Image Copyright © by Ismail Fatah Al-Turk

Untitled image by Ismail Fatah Al-Turk
Image Copyright © by Ismail Fatah Al-Turk

Untitled image by Ismail Fatah Al-Turk
Image Copyright © by Ismail Fatah Al-Turk

Untitled image by Ismail Fatah Al-Turk
Image Copyright © by Ismail Fatah Al-Turk

Page updated Apr 16, 2008

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