Tayseer Barakat (Arabic: تيسير بركات; born 1959) is a Palestinian painter, curator, and writer.
[1] Barakat was one of the founding members of the League of Palestinian Artists in 1973, and the New Vision art group and movement in 1987.
Barakat was one of the founding members of the League of Palestinian Artists (Arabic: رابطة الفنانين الفلسطينيين) art collective in 1973, the other founding artists included Karim Dabbah, Taysir Sharaf, Nabil Anani, Kamel Mughanni, Vera Tamari, Fathi Ghabin, Issam Badr, Suleiman Mansour, Fatin Tubasi, Samira Badran, and Yusuf Duwayk.
[5] In 1987, the New Visions (Arabic: نحو التجريب والإبداء, romanized: Nahwa al-Tajrib wa al-Ibda') art collective and movement founded by Barakat, Vera Tamari, Sliman Mansour, and Nabil Anani, and it was formed in response to the First Intifada (1987–1993).
[8] During this period Barakat began to work with materials such as local clay (and he added hay for consistency), wood and fire.