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Baya (artist)

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Baya Mahieddine (Arabic: باية محي الدين) or Fatima Haddad (Arabic: فاطمة حداد, dem born am for Bordj El Kiffan on 12 December 1931; way she died 9 November 1998) [1] she be Algerian painting artist. She never talk say her work dey for one particular art genre, people way dey critic artist dema work talk say her paintings be surrealistic, primitive, naïve, and modern[2]. She moe de painting einself no bro moe am, her job be say she be painter way sansu dey do pottery.

as she chop sixteen years, Baya do ein first exhibition, for Paris, way Pablo Picasso den André Breton notice ein work. Dem present ein for chao exhibitions for France den Algeria. Way Algerian menez carry am put dema postage stamps top.

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For 2018, Google create Google Doodle way dem take celebrate am on ein 87th birthday.

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  1. "Baya pseudonym of Fatima Haddad". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00014170. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  2. Futamura, C. Wakaba. "Cendrillon or Scheherazade?: Unraveling the Franco-Algerian Legend of Baya Mahieddine", Women in French Studies, Volume 24, 2016 (Article) Published by Women in French Association DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2016.0018