Hanibal Srouji: A Pioneer of Burning Hole Technique Hanibal Srouji (born 1957 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese painter whose distinctive artistic approach—the incorporation of burning holes into his canvases—has cemented his place as one of the most recognizable figures in contemporary Middle Eastern art. His journey began with formative years marked by displacement during the tumultuous Lebanese Civil War, an experience that profoundly shaped his worldview and fueled his creative impulse. Witnessing firsthand the devastation wrought by conflict instilled a deep empathy for human suffering…
A chart of hanibal srouji's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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