Basil Alkazzi

Basil Alkazzi ((Arabic: باسل القزي; born 1938), be Kuwait-born British visual artist, of Saudi Arabian–Kuwaiti heritage. As a painter dem know am for metaphysical den spiritual abstract paintings. He live insyd London den New York City.
 Biography 
Na dem born Basil Alkazzi insyd 1938, for ship top insyd de sea wey dey travel from Kuwait to Britain. Ein poppie Hamed Ali Alkazzi, na he be merchant wey komot Arab family. Insyd ein early kiddie time, na he be artistic wey he be interested insyd de arts. Alkazzi attend de Central School of Art insyd London.

Insyd de 1960s, Alkazzi work plus de human figure as a subject; wey after he paint for chaw years, de figure appear make he stretch out into de skyline anaa he cam turn unrecognizable forms.Alkazzi, Basil; Kuspit, Donald Burton (2013). Basil Alkazzi: An Odyssey of Dreams : a Decade of Paintings 2003-2012. Scala. ISBN 978-1-85759-876-6.

He get a solo exhibition insyd 1989 at de Springfield Art Center insyd Springfield, Illinois. Ein solo exhibition, "An Odyessy of Dreams" (2014) Judith K. Brodsky wey curate am wey dem display am at de Sheldon Museum of Art insyd Lincoln, Nebraska.

Insyd 1986, he establish de Basil Alkazzi Scholarship at de Royal College of Art insyd London; den a year later insyd 1987, he establish de Basil H. Alkazzi Award for young den emerging American painters. Thru de New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Alkazzi establish insyd 2010 two biennial awards.
 Collections den archives 
Ein work dey insyd museum collections, wey dey include at de Metropolitan Museum of Art insyd New York City; de Art Institute of Chicago; de Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University insyd St. Louis; de Neuberger Museum of Art insyd Purchase, New York; den at de Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art insyd Kansas City. Dem fi find ein artist files at de Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives, den de Smithsonian American Art den Portrait Gallery Library.
 References 
Category:1938 births
Category:Human
Category:20th-century Kuwaiti people
Category:21st-century Kuwaiti people
Category:English painters
Category:Kuwaiti artists
Category:Kuwaiti contemporary artists
Category:Kuwaiti emigrants to de United Kingdom
Category:British people of Saudi Arabian descent
Category:British people of Kuwaiti descent