Google Marks Birth Anniversary of ''Baya Mohie El-Din''

By: Ahmed Yasser

CAIRO, Dec.12 (SEE)- Search engine Google is celebrating  birthday of the Algerian plastic artist ''Baya Mohie El-Din Moussa''. She was born in 1931 at Bordj El-Kiffan, Algiers.

She was adopted at age 5, by ''Marguerite Camina Benhoura'', a French intellectual who noticed Baya’s artistic talent from a young age.''Benhoura'' supported ''Baia'' by art materials and access to French and Maghrebi art magnates.

Baya’s works

''Baya'' used gouache as her primary medium depicting a world without men but full of bright images of women, nature, and animals. The bold patterns in her work are attention-grabbing, but her life story is even more so.

In 1947, she was discovered by ''Aime Maeght'', an established French art dealer and ''Andre Breton'', who included Baya’s works in the ''Exposition International Surrealisme'' at ''Galerie Maeght'' in Paris.

She caught the attention of ''Picasso and Matisse'', among other prominent artists for her colorful, spontaneous and childlike compositions.