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Mahidienne Baya

Mahidienne Baya (1931 - 1998) was active/lived in Algeria.  Mahidienne Baya is known for Painting.

Baya Mahieddin's story is one that is imbued with the hopeful undulations of life - of joy in spite of loss and resolution in the face of instability.  Introduced to the art world by her adoptive mother, Baya was a self-taught artist who remained true to her own aesthetic sensibilities.  Baya was of Algerian descent, and her attachment to the light of Blida accompanied her throughout her life.  Despite a rather tenuous political environment shrouded in a post-colonial vernacular, Baya was unwilling to succumb to post-colonial exile and therefore spent her lifetime in her hometown.

Baya refused to associate herself with mainstream Western art signifiers, and therefore rejected all forms of adherence to any art movement association.  Neither surrealism nor naive art were able to contain her, she wanted to stand alone - untouched by exogenous artistic categorization.  Unshackled and free, her painting brings with it the colour a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3349 characters.]  Artist bio

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