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List Of Egyptian Artists
This is a list of notable visual artists from, or associated with, Egypt. A * Mohamed Abla (born 1953), painter * Inji Aflatoun (1924–1989), painter * Armen Agop (born 1969), sculptor * Mariam A. Aleem (1930–2010), painter * Doa Aly (born 1976), painter * Ghada Amer (born 1963), artist * Sawsan Amer, painter * Heba Amin (born 1980), artist * Kamal Amin (1923–1979), graphic artist * Evelyn Ashamallah (born 1948), Coptic painter * Alaa Awad (born 1981), muralist, street art, painter * Islam el Azzazi, photographer and filmmaker B * Clea Badaro (1913–1968), painter * George Bahgoury (born 1932), artist and caricaturist * Lara Baladi (born 1969), Egyptian-Lebanese multimedia artist * Bek, sculptor C * Chico (born 1985 or 1986), graffiti and street artist D * Dina Danish (born 1981), multimedia artist * Yehia Dessouki (born 1978), digital and mixed media artist E * Doaa El-Adl (born 1979), cartoonist * Gamal El-Sagini (1917–1977), sculptor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south, and Libya to the west. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt, while Alexandria, the second-largest city, is an important industrial and tourist hub at the Mediterranean coast. At approximately 100 million inhabitants, Egypt is the 14th-most populated country in the world. Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage along the Nile Delta back to the 6th–4th millennia BCE. Considered a cradle of civilisation, Ancient Egypt saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chico (Egyptian Artist)
Chico (born 1985/1986) is the pseudonym of an anonymous Egyptian street artist and graffiti artist whose work has gained popularity and notoriety in Egypt following the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Career and artwork Chico claims not to have studied art formally, although he now teaches it. He has said that he has always been "interested in graffiti and stencils in particular." Chico has stated that he works with stencils because they are "fast and safe." During the days of the revolution, he and fellow Egyptian graffiti artist El Teneen spray painted stencils on surfaces in public spaces, such as lampposts and walls, in downtown Cairo. However, these stencils were often quickly identified by security forces and removed, sometimes within minutes. Since the 2011 revolution, Chico's work has been noted for its political content and criticism of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF, which as ruled the country since the February, 2011 resignation of former president Hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassan Mohamed Hassan
Hassan Mohamed Hassan (1906–1990) (full name is Hassan Mohamed Hassan el-Feky, ar, حسن محمد حسن الفقى) was one of the pioneers of Egyptian modern art from the second-wave such as Saeed elSadr (1909–1986) and Ahmed Osman. Hassan has been called Painter of the Epics and Philosophies by criticsMokhtar elAttar, 1998, Art Pioneers and Enlightenment Avant-garde in Egypt, Part Three (), Studies in fine-arts critique Series, Egyptian General Authority for The Book (), Cairo. and has been recognized by his colleagues for his strong adherence to Classical forms in Egyptian modern art. He has produced over 100 paintings some of which are on the large scale and most of which remain 'stored' with the family in his—now closed—residence near the Pyramids in Cairo. He had authored 4 books in arts, history of art, philosophy of art, and arts and society. Born in Cairo in 1906 to a middle-class family with a Sufi Sheikh father, Hassan saw the early days of Egypt's semi-indep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fathi Hassan
Fathi Hassan ( ar, فتحي حسن, born 10 May 1957) is an Egyptian-born, Italian-based artist known for his installations involving the written word. Life Fathi Hassan was born in Cairo in 1957 as the second son to a Nubian family. His father Hassan was Sudanese and his mother Fatma was from the Toshka Lakes region in southern Egypt. He attended the Kerabia school in Cairo, where he met the sculptor Ghaleb Khater. Work In 1979, Hassan received a grant from the Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo and moved to Naples. He enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti in 1980 to study set design. He graduated in 1984 with a dissertation on the influence of African art in Cubism. While he was studying and in the year after graduation, Hassan also worked as an actor and set designer at RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana works) in Naples and Rome. In 1986, he moved to Pesaro. In 1989 Hassan was the first artist of African heritage to be invited to the "Aperto" section of the 43rd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nermine Hammam
Nermine Hammam (born 1967) is an Egyptian artist who lives and works in Cairo and London. She was born in Cairo and later moved to England and then the United States in 1985. She received a BFA in film-making from the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City. She worked in film with Simon & Goodman and then with Egyptian director Youssef Chahine. She was a production assistant on the 1992 Spike Lee film ''Malcolm X''. Hammam subsequently worked as a graphic designer before moving on to visual arts and photography. As a female photographer, Hammam said she "entered this traditionally male-dominated space, camera in hand, inverting conventional power relationships to ‘shoot’ the soldiers. Their response to my presence, as a woman, in their midst, has become part of the ‘facts’ documented in these images.” Hammam is known for the distinctive technique with which she reworks photography, addressing the influence of mass media and market stylization. Her layered, digit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahia Halim
Tahia Mohammed Halim ( ar, تحية محمد حليم; September 9, 1919 – May 24, 2003) was an Egyptian painter. Tahia Halim was one of the pioneers of the Modern Expressive Movement in Egyptian Art in the 1960s, where she excelled in expressing the Egyptian character’s idiosyncrasies in her works. Many of her works concern the Nubian culture, the Nile, boats, and the popular and national subjects for which she has been granted several honorary awards in Egypt and abroad. Biography Tahia Halim was born in Sudan, where her family were living. Her primary education was inside the Royal Palace of Cairo, where she was raised, as her father was the laureate of King Fuad I of Egypt. Tahia Halim studied art under important drawing teachers as the Lebanese painter Yussef Trabelsi and the Greek artist Gerom; then under the Egyptian artist Hamed Abdallah at his studio 1943, and after their marriage, in 1945, they left for Paris to join Julian Academy (1949-1951). Came back to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherin Guirguis
Sherin Guirguis (born 1974 in Luxor, Egypt) is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, California. Guirguis has had solo exhibitions of her work at 18th Street Art Center (Santa Monica, California), The Third Line Gallery (Dubai), Shulamit Nazarian Gallery (Venice, California), and LAXART (Los Angeles). In 2012, Guirguis received the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists and the 2014–15 City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship. Her work is acquired or held in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Orange County Museum of Art, Las Vegas Art Museum, U.S. Department of State, and Metropolitan Authority Los Angeles. Guirguis is an associate professor in the Practice of Fine Art at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California. Guirguis draws from Western and Middle Eastern influences as is seen in her Mashrabiya patterns punctuated by a bold neon palette. Her work was showcas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habib Gorgi
Habib Gorgi (1892–1965) was an artist of the turn of the century pioneer generation of Egyptian modern art. He graduated from Teacher Training School then received a scholarship to England in 1920 to study pedagogic methods of art teaching, and watercolors. An early pioneer of art education, and the author of the first Arabic book on the subject in 1936. He taught graduates of the Fine and Applied Arts Colleges to prepare them to become arts teachers and get their National Teacher's Certificate. He established the Art Advocates Society in 1928 for artist investigating Egyptian identity through art, and watercolors in particular. His Spontaneous Sculpture School and the Textile Drawing School was continued by son-in-law Ramses Wissa Wassef in Harraneya. He represented Egypt in conferences on art teaching in Paris from 1936, and his educational experiments became an inspiration to major international writers, including Wilhelm Viola, in his book The Art of the Child. During his s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Emad Eldin
Ahmed Emad Eldin ( ar, أحمد عماد الدين) is an Egyptian digital artist who came to prominence as the designer of the sleeve of Pink Floyd's 2014 album ''The Endless River''. In 2015, Emad Eldin was chosen by Adobe for their "25 Under 25" list. Emad Eldin has been described as "an acclaimed digital artist and photo manipulator whose work has been displayed all over, from museums to the sleeve of Pink Floyd's album ''The Endless River''" and who "has made a name for himself in the global digital art space" often producing "commercial work" though "much of his artwork comes from his own dreams." Emad Eldin is an Oniros Film Awards winner. His work has been part of exhibitions, including the "Bad Consumers" exhibition at Doge's Palace, Genoa and "Kahlil Gibran: Guide for our Times" at Sotheby's Gallery in London, "featuring nine Egyptian artists, along with 38 others from across the Middle East." Life Emad Eldin was born October 23, 1996, and grew up in Jeddah, Saudi Ara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samir Elmesirri
Samir Elmissiri is an Egyptian artist. He was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1941, and now lives in Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandri .... He is a member of the Syndicate of Plastic Arts. He has had 17 exhibitions as of May 2010. He received second place for the plastics arts for public culture in 1974, and got first place for Alexandrias' first festival in 1976. In 1962, while studying in the faculty of commerce, he studied painting and drawing at the same time with Adham Wanly. Samir started his career as a painter as a protégé of Adham Wanly's brother Seif Wanly. At 1967 he finished his studies in both the university and the institute. Since that time he worked several jobs till he retired in 1998 . References 1941 births Living people Egyptian arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gamal El-Sagini
Gamal El-Sagini (Arabic: جمال السجيني) (January 7, 1917 – November 19, 1977) was an Egyptian sculptor, painter and medalist. Childhood and Education Born on January 7, 1917, in Bab El Shaaria, a poor suburb of ''Cairo'', ''Egypt'', El-Sagini discovered his passion for art at a very early age where he grew fond of the architectural nature of old Cairo such as domes, mosques and Islamic architecture which led him in 1934 to join the sculpture department at the First school of Fine Arts founded by prince Youssef Kamal. Guided and mentored by great artists teaching sculpture in Cairo at the time, El-Sagini earned his diploma in sculpture in 1938. El Sagini traveled to Paris at his own expense to pursue higher studies where he was greatly affected by English sculptor Henry Moore who was best known for his abstract technique and reclining figures. El Sagini followed this in 1947 by traveling to Rome to resume his post graduate studies where he received a diploma in Sculp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
