Google Doodle honored Naziha Salim, Iraq’s most conspicuous contemporaneous artist.

Google drawing pays Naziha Salim, Iraq’s most influential painter, an enormous amount. The drawing is a tribute to Salim’s style of painting and her contribution to art. This painting is a hybrid of two images, Salim where she is holding a brush and another side that highlights rural Iraqi women and provincial life through bold brush strokes and vibrant colors.

Naziha Salim was appointed to the Baghdad Fine Arts Institute, where she studied painting and graduated with honors.

On Saturday April 23, 2022, Google recognized her Doodle artwork. Naziha Salim is a painter and professor and one of the creative artists of the contemporary Iraqi art scene. In 2020 her work was highlighted by the Barjeel Art Foundation in their collection of female artists.

The doodle is a tribute to her painting style and her donation to the arts. This painting is a hybrid of two images – Salim, in which she is holding a brush, and another side, which highlights rural Iraqi women and provincial life through bold brushstrokes and bright colors.

She was born into an Iraqi family of artists in Turkey. She loves to draw and has been creating her own art from a young age. She studied painting and graduated with honors. Her hard work and passion for art endeared her and now she has become one of the greatest women to receive or receive a scholarship to continue her remaining education in Paris at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Salim specialized in fersco and composition painting. After graduating, she spent years abroad, immersing herself in art and culture.

She eventually returned to her hometown of Baghdad to work at the Fine Arts Institute, where she will teach until seclusion. She is always active in every exhibition of art, community and one of the founding members of Al-Ruwwad, a community of artists who study abroad and integrate European art techniques with Iraqi aesthetics. She is the author of the book Iraq Contemporary Art, an important resource for the early development of the country’s modern art movement.