In Tunisia, the sculpture knew its hour of glory at the Roman reign. Nowadays, it is less practiced by the Tunisian artists in spite of the presence of sculptors of talent such as Marzouk and Hedi Selmi, whose several works appear in the museum of modern art of Tunis. It is the pictorial art which is most representative of the visual arts.
The Tunisian school of painting counts several generations of artists.
In the Forties was born the school from Tunis and at the end of the
Sixties it is with its apogee thanks to artists such as Ammar Foorat,
painter of Tunisia authenticates Ali Ben Salem and Jalel Ben Abdallah
who reactualized the miniature (major kind of Arab art pictorial),
Cjorgi, Bellagha and Zoubeir Turrbli, paintings of Tunis traditional.
Let us choose artistic of the rising generation go from the
pseudo-abstract to “naive”. Certain painters such as Nja Mahdaoui
passing from the lyric abstraction to calligraphic art, reinvented the
sign, it making pass in the abstract, the Arab letter becoming a pure
plastic element.
List OF Tunisian plastics technicians sorted by chronological order:
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Pioneers: Ahmed Osman, Hédi Khayachi, Yahia Turki, Abdelaziz Berraïes, Aly Ben Salem, Ammar Farhat, Hatim Elmekki.
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The school of Tunis: Abdelaziz Gorgi, Ali Bellagha, Ammar Farhat,
Brahim Dahak, Brahim Dhahak, Edgard Naccache, Fethi Ben Zakour, Hassen
Soufy, Hédi Turki, Jellal Ben Abdallah, Jelal Ben Abdallah, Jules
Lellouche, Moses Levy, Nello Levy, Pierre Boucherle, Safia Farhat,
Yahia Turki, Zoubeir Turki. 
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New tendencies: Hatim Elmekki, Néjib Belkhoja, Mahmoud Sehili.
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The abstraction: Habib Chébil, Ridha Bettaïeb, Rafik El Kamel,
Noureddine El Héni, Rachid Fakhfakh, Habib Bida, Jamel Esseghaïer,
Mohamed El Yakoubi, Amel Bennys.
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Redécouverte of the inheritance: Néjib Belkhoja, Nja Mahdaoui, Rym Karoui, Insaf Sâada.
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Figurations: Mahmoud Sehili, Habib Saïdi, Belgacem Lakhdar, Gmach, Ridha Ben Abdallah, Abderrazak Sahli, Faouzi Chtioui.
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The surrealist ones: Belgacem Lakhdar, Moncef Mensi, Sadok Mejri, Samia
Zaouche, Hichem Skik, Chedli Belkhamsa, Hédi Labbane, Mohamed Ben
Meftah, Rafik El Kamel, Asma Mnaouar, Hassen Soufy, Sahli, Habib
Bouabana.
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Poetic universes: Gouider Triki, Fethi Ben Zakour, Hamadi Ben Saâd,
Mohamed Rolls Sassi, Ahmed Hajri, Mohamed Lamine Sassi, Faouzi
Hassouna, Meriem Bouderbala, Halim Karabibène, Hajer Mselmani.
- Tunisian naive art: Baghdadi Chniter.
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