Mohamed Melehi

Mohammed Melehi (Arabic: محمد المليحي; 12 November 1936 – 28 October 2020) was a Moroccan painter associated with the Casablanca school, a modernist art movement active in the 1960s in Morocco.

[2][4] Melehi became a professor at the School of Fine Arts of Casablanca, teaching painting, sculpture, and photography (1964 - 1969).

[6][7] The artists displayed their works in Jemaa el-Fnaa in the Marrakesh medina, snubbing an official Moroccan art salon of happening at the same time.

[7] "We took a position against the government", Melehi said in an interview with The Guardian, "Our works were in Jemaa el-Fnaa square for a week, exposed to the sun and wind.

"[6] Melehi died at the Ambroise Paré Hospital in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris at the age of 84 a few days after being infected with COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.

Time Square (1963)