Mohamed Temam or Mohamed Temmam (23 February 1915

Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques d ...

– 15 July 1988 Algiers) was Algerian

miniaturist A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolor, or enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illuminated manuscripts, and were popular among 16th-century eli ...

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

and illuminator. His miniature painting of the

Kaaba The Kaaba (, ), also spelled Ka'bah or Kabah, sometimes referred to as al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah ( ar, ٱلْكَعْبَة ٱلْمُشَرَّفَة, lit=Honored Ka'bah, links=no, translit=al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah), is a building at the c ...

in Mecca was featured on a commemorative stamp issued by Algeria in 1978.

Bibliography

* ''Peintres algériens'', textes d' Edmond Michelet et Mourad Bourboune, Musée des Arts décoratifs de Paris, Paris, 1964 *

Mohammed Khadda Mohammed Khadda ( ar, محمد الخدة, link=no; 14 March 1930 – 4 May 1991) was an Algerian painter, sculptor, and writer. Khadda has been considered to be among the founders of contemporary Algerian painting and one of the many repres ...

, ''Éléments pour un art nouveau'', SNED, Alger, 1972 (p. 49) * ''Musées d'Algérie, l'Art Populaire et Contemporain'', Collection Art et Culture, Ministère de L'Information et la Culture, SNED, Alger, 1973 * Mohammed Khadda, ''Feuillets épars liés'', SNED, Alger, 1983 * Dalila Mahhamed-Orfali, ''Chefs d'œuvre du Musée national des beaux-arts d'Alger'', Alger, 1999 (reproduction : ''L'homme en bleu'', n° 79). * Mansour Abrous, ''Les artistes algériens, Dictionnaire biographique, 1917–1999'', Alger, Casbah éditions, 2002 (p. 212–214) *

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Mohamed Temam
from Famille Decruy Miniature painting 1915 births 1988 deaths 20th-century Algerian painters Algerian artists {{Africa-painter-stub