New Visions
Palestinian art movement
The New Visions group (Arabic: نحو التجريب والإبداء, romanized: Naḥw at-Tajrīb wa-l-Ibdāʾ) was a Palestinian art group that was founded during the First Intifada (1987-1993) by four artists: Sliman Mansour, Vera Tamari, Tayseer Barakat, and Nabil Anani.
History and Context
The group was part of cultural resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestine at the time of the First Intifada (1987–1993). According to their 1989 manifesto, the group sought to begin "an aesthetic quest to elevate artistic vision to a level that affirms the artist’s inner freedom and ability to envision beauty and truth in the midst of their daily struggle for freedom"
The four New Vision group co-founders, Sliman Mansour, Vera Tamari, Tayseer Barakat and Nabil Anani, were inspired by calls to boycott goods from Israel, and chose to forego buying imported art supplies in favor of using local materials from their surrounding environment, embodying the First Intifada's philosophy of self-reliance. They stopped using oil paints, and instead began to produce works of fine art such as paintings, posters, mixed media assemblage, and earthworks with only materials found or produced locally. The group's output is lauded as an example of 'committed art', bringing the political in symbolic form of the land (e.g. as mud, hay, leather) into the artwork.
It has been described as an "artists' precursor to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)," highlighting the continued centrality of nonviolent resistance to the Palestinian cause over time. The group's audience was broad and included targeting an international audience as well as the Palestinian public. New Visions became a model for political art in Palestine, and has had a lasting impact on contemporary art practice.
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The First Intifada led the artists to question their use of art materials imported from Israel.
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