Driven by an enthusiastically internationalist spirit, her passion for art was born during the difficult years of the Second World War, when the museums in Cairo were closed and she satiated her artistic interests by admiring the local mosques’ geometric art décor, whose essence would later be found in her innovative and modular geometric sculptures. She studied art in Lebanon and then in Paris with Fernand Léger. Choucair can undoubtedly be considered one of the most significant figures in the dissemination of abstract art in the Arab world.
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