Joanna Raad
Impression Chebanieh
Joanna Raad
Painting - 58 x 68 x 0.5 cm Painting - 22.8 x 26.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,800
Lost in the Luna park
Joanna Raad
Painting - 38 x 41 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15 x 16.1 x 0.2 inch
$1,080
The little girl and the horse
Joanna Raad
Painting - 20 x 29 x 0.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.4 x 0.2 inch
$837 $754
Enfance en apesanteur
Joanna Raad
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 42 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$996
The magician and the musician
Joanna Raad
Painting - 29 x 41 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.4 x 16.1 x 0.2 inch
$780
Clairière de mon école
Joanna Raad
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 16 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 6.3 inch
$552
Impression îles canaries
Joanna Raad
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
La vie en rose a Chebanieh
Joanna Raad
Painting - 95 x 115 x 5 cm Painting - 37.4 x 45.3 x 2 inch
$4,308
In the mood for yellow
Joanna Raad
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 inch
$444
Impression hadath el Jedde
Joanna Raad
Painting - 12.5 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 4.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$324 $292
Christ carrying the cross
Joanna Raad
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 29.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 11.7 inch
$478
Emotional memory from les îles canaries
Joanna Raad
Painting - 16 x 11 cm Painting - 6.3 x 4.3 inch
$396
Biography
Born in Chebanieh, Lebanon; Joanna Raad is a Lebanese multidisciplinary artist. As a professional set designer/art director, she worked on several renowned TV programs and series, TV commercials, music videos, short feature films and theatre plays. Joanna started to draw at a very young age. Her passion for drawing became progressively professional. She took extra-curricular painting classes with Odile Mazloum, Haidar Hammawi, Fouad Tomb, Jean-Paul, and Emmanuel Guiragossian. Reconstruction of the past and compiling archives accompanied her artistic research.
Drawing is more her passion than painting. For the artist, there is freedom in drawing, as she can quickly express herself within the intimacy of a bedroom, in a coffee shop, or even on a plane. She considers drawing on paper an intimate gesture, almost like writing a diary. Raad paints her story in a naive/neo-expressionist style. It all started with obsessive flashbacks doodled on recycled paper with oil pastels. Photography was rare in the 70ies in Beirut. This triggered the artist to reconstitute her past from her 'emotional memory. The representations of the 'scenes' from the past include a theatrical and cinematographic feel: Close-ups," large shots", the space of her school, Grandma's home, etc. The vivid and saturated colors connect with her childhood in the 70's era.
She is also a lecturer at the faculty of arts and art history of many renowned universities in Lebanon. She has a Ph.D. in Theater, a Master's in Cinema, and a BA in performing art from the Saint-Joseph University in Beirut (USJ/IESAV). She is also a researcher on the History of modern art and the correspondences between arts.
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