Baya Mahieddine

Baya Mahieddine (Arabic: باية محي الدين; born Fatima Haddad [فاطمة حداد]; 12 December 1931 – 9 November 1998) was an Algerian painter and, to a lesser extent, ceramist. While she did not identify her work as belonging to a particular art genre, critics have classified her paintings as surrealist, primitive, naïve, and modern. She was an entirely self-taught artist. Quotes I paint what I feel. It irritates me when people ask me what I’m trying to express through my painting. I give you the freedom to find in it whatever you wish. I paint — it’s up to you now to feel. When I paint, I am happy, I am in another world, I forget everything. I find that if I change, I will no longer be Baya. Why birds? Well, I like birds. Why butterflies? Well, because I like butterflies. I don’t plan anything. I wake up and put my dreams on paper. My paintings do not reflect the outside world, but my own world within me. We are in a different world and we create whatever we want to create. It is an individual path that I love. External links Category:Painters from Algeria Category:Women artists Category:Women from Algeria Category:1931 births Category:1998 deaths