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Mohammed Melehi (1936)
Professions: Painter
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Mohammed Melehi (Moroccan, b. 1936)
Mohammed Melehi Biography
(b Asilah, 22 Nov 1936). Moroccan painter and graphic artist. He studied art in Morocco at the Escuela Preparatoria de Bellas Artes in Tétouan between 1953 and 1955, then in Seville and Madrid, as well as at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at Columbia University, NY. After the independence of Morocco in 1956 its painters began to search for a national and cultural identity, and Melehi was among the leaders of this movement. He taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Casablanca from 1964 to 1969, along with fellow Moroccan artists Farid Belkahia (b 1935) and Mohamed Chebaa (b 1935).
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