{"id":1207,"date":"2017-09-11T16:51:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T06:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2017-09-11T16:56:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T06:56:46","slug":"at-the-table-murhaf-obeid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/?p=1207","title":{"rendered":"At the Table: Murhaf Obeid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MurhafObeid_LastSupper.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"374\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MurhafObeid_LastSupper.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MurhafObeid_LastSupper-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>&nbsp;Murhaf Obeid<\/h1>\n<p><em>The Last Supper<\/em>,&nbsp; Acrylic and gouache on canvas, varnished with gold leaf, 110 cm x 190cm.<\/p>\n<h3>Artist Statement<\/h3>\n<p>My name is Murhaf Obeid, I am from (Homs, Syria)<\/p>\n<p>After I finished my last academy studies in Topography I went to Paulist&#8217;s convent in Harissa- Lebanon, in 2001. And I got a bachelor degree of Science in Philosophy and Theology, 2009. Then I studied all the courses to get Master degree in Church Science (marriage and family) in Suggest University, Beirut, but still working on the final research about <strong>Paul Evdokimov<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, I followed an iconography class for about one year by the iconographer: Nicolas Majdalani, in Lebanon, <strong>then In May\/ 2014, June\/ 2015<\/strong> I went to Minsk- Belarus and completed a 12 days master-class in painting and gelding icons<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I Participated in drawing icons for a book about old Christian fathers, translated into Arabic by Bishop Joseph Jbara, and drawing celebrity\u2019s profile pictures for \u201cThe history of Arabic literature\u201d book (written by Hanna Fakhoury)\/2008<\/p>\n<p>2014-2016 I was responsible of writing the main &nbsp;icons of three churches in Beirut, Lebanon.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Want to know more about Murhaf and his work? Contact him on <a href=\"mailto:murhafobeid@hotmail.com\">murhafobeid@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Murhaf Obeid The Last Supper,&nbsp; Acrylic and gouache on canvas, varnished with gold leaf, 110 cm x 190cm. Artist Statement My name is Murhaf Obeid, I am from (Homs, Syria) After I finished my last academy studies in Topography I went to Paulist&#8217;s convent in Harissa- Lebanon, in 2001. And I got a bachelor degree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[57,24,40,19,89,39,59,30,37],"class_list":{"0":"post-1207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-exhibitions","7":"tag-australian-catholic-university","8":"tag-brisbane","9":"tag-christian-art","10":"tag-exhibtions","11":"tag-murhaf-obeid","12":"tag-painting","13":"tag-peter-w-sheehan-gallery","14":"tag-queensland","15":"tag-visionaries","16":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}