Ali Al Tajer


Ali Al Tajer is an Iraqi painter and art historian. He studied drawing at the University of Baghdad's College of Fine Arts.

Biography

Ali Al Tajer was born in Iraq in 1962. He studied at the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad, ultimately earning a master's degree in drawing. He later worked as an illustrator for magazines and newspapers in Iraq.

Art

Al Tajer's art typically depicts daily urban life in Iraq, featuring customs and traditional aspects of Iraqi culture. Flowers, and particularly roses, are commonly used motifs. He has cited the painters James Ensor and Marc Chagall as sources of inspiration. In 2015, Al Tajer exhibited a painting series entitled Babylon, which combined moments of day-to-day life in Iraq with symbolic objects and people.
As a researcher, Al Tajer has explored Iraqi folk heritage, as well as the role of ancient myths, human and animal motifs in Iraqi folk art.