Today's Doodle celebrates the 125th birthday of an Algerian painter, graphic designer, illustrator, and stage designer Mohammed Racim, who is widely regarded as one of the most significant Algerian art deco artists of the early 1900s.
Racism was one of the finest artists that the Arabian art industry could ever have. He was born in Algeria in 1869 to a father of Turkish origin.
Inspired by the history of his national identity, Mohamed began his career at 14 with a series of paintings based on Algerian folklore. His first artistic success came in 1931 when the Algerian Society of Friends of Fine Art included a number of his Persian miniature, wood sculptures, and others illustrations of Arabian Legends in its exhibition.
In 1914, his artistic career began in the French colonial school for arts, where he discovered the works of the Persian, Mughal, and Andalusian miniatures made for the private use of the Muslim nobility.
Throughout his career, the Algerian artist continued to focus on creating vibrant miniatures. He combined traditional Persian and Mughal painting techniques to reinvigorate Maghrebi cultural customs, helping redefine the global outlook on the Arab world through art.
Racism's big break came in 1933 when his seminal works won the Grand Artistic Prize of Algeria.
In his paintings, Racism also fused traditional Persian and Mughal miniature painting and techniques, rarely practiced in the Maghreb, with Western perspective to depict pre-colonial Algeria.
This modern take on a traditional art form became his hallmark; a style that gained popularity as Algeria had recently regained its independence in 1962 and its citizens cherished their historical iconography.
On this basis, Racism and his brother Oman, who was also an artist, founded the Algerian School for Miniature Painting, which still exists to this day.
His artistic career was ended by his vision problems in 1955, at which time he attended the hospital for the eye problems, and gave up painting.
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