Artist and sculptor, Dr. Abdullah Al-Sayed passes away

Damascus (ST): The Ministry of Culture, the General Union of Plastic Artists in Syria, the College of Fine Arts and the Fine Cultural Center mourned a figure of Syrian plastic art, Dr. Abdullah Al-Sayed, at the age of 81 years.

The late artist was born in the city of Misyaf in 1941. He graduated from the Department of Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University in 1971 and obtained a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Aesthetics in 1977 in Paris, and a certificate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1980. Along with his studies of fine arts, he studied at the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies at the Faculty of Arts at Damascus University in 1965 and worked as a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, head of the sculpture department there, and professor of aesthetics and criticism in graduate studies at the faculty.

Sculptor Al-Sayed is a member of the jury and supervision of art festivals and memorials. He has many research papers published in intellectual and artistic periodicals on Syrian plastic art, aesthetics, and art history.

Al-Sayed executed many memorials and statues in many Syrian cities, the most famous of which is the monument of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi in Damascus in 1992 and the monument to the martyrs in Daraa in 1990. He also executed the monument to Noah’s Ark of Damascus in the city of Dallas, the USA in 2001.

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