Nasser Al-yousif

Biography

Nasser Alyousif was one of the pioneers of visual art in bahrain. During the 1960s, he became an active member of the bahraini art scene, embarking on a revolutionary journey characterized by a serious, rigorous approach, along with a group of other pioneers in the local art movement. He drew from life, drifting through cities, villages, neighborhoods, popular cafes, and orchards, wandering along the shorelines among seamen, where fishing boats and traditional sightseeing vessels proliferated in the waters off the bahraini coast, his visual repertoire rich with scenes of daily life and bahrain’s famous virgin natural landscape. He was a pioneer in documenting local public and private life on a visual and artistic level – a rich tapestry of memory both for himself and for the people of bahrain. He was also particularly interested in the stories of the pearl divers, featuring them prominently in a lot of his sketches and diagrams, collecting their stories as well as those from the lives and work of a lot of the older fishermen, unearthing their meaning and symbolism in paintings that featured intricate details of the famous bahraini profession of pearl diving. In his artistic practice, al-youssef melded all the current styles to forge his own unique form that combined dexterity of expression with powerful ideas, infusing immeasurable simplicity into both his implementation and delivery.

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