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eping and flying forms. He called it
the flight collection because its striped
lines show the freedom of movement,
the smooth flow and soaring qualities.
A great transparency is achieved by the
appearance of the color of the ground
between beams of multi-directional
parallel lines and sequential tones.
Fire Factor:
The flight collection continued to be
researched by the artist Ahmed Fouad
Selim until 1994. From 1987 to 1994
another factor entered significantly in
the work of this collection of paintings Oil on toile - 167 x 150 cm - 1997.
which is the fire factor. Since he suffered
from the disaster of his house burn in the
center of the city in 1982, swallowing his acquisitions, books, furniture, and the
historic piano belonging to his wife, artist Marcelle Matta, and causing the threat to
his small family. The fire obsession became part of phobia that accompanied him until
his last days. These nightmarish concerns spontaneously expressed themselves after
being locked away for years. They appeared in smoke clouds and flames dancing in
every way in tapered edges on smoky backgrounds, and scattered leaves and charred
flying fabrics under curtains of tufts that show transparency by the implementation of
lines bundles reveal their backgrounds of parallel spaces between those lines.
directions and shapes that wander in a vast cosmic space are flying, breaking
the perimeter of the painting from the
top to down and from down to the top
another time; the spaces are varying from
small to large to achieve a rebellious
dynamic atmosphere of a special kind
without using the academic perspective
to express the depth. Elements look
enormous in the spaces where the front
element accumulates over sequential
in size layers to express the symbolic
depth. The conflicting directions achieve
a chaotic kinesthetic sensation for these
linear strands that appear to the eye of
the viewer, putting him in front of a sense
of attention and apprehension in search
of a common fate of these troubled
elements on the surface of the painting Oil on toile - 130 x 130 cm.
172
the flight collection because its striped
lines show the freedom of movement,
the smooth flow and soaring qualities.
A great transparency is achieved by the
appearance of the color of the ground
between beams of multi-directional
parallel lines and sequential tones.
Fire Factor:
The flight collection continued to be
researched by the artist Ahmed Fouad
Selim until 1994. From 1987 to 1994
another factor entered significantly in
the work of this collection of paintings Oil on toile - 167 x 150 cm - 1997.
which is the fire factor. Since he suffered
from the disaster of his house burn in the
center of the city in 1982, swallowing his acquisitions, books, furniture, and the
historic piano belonging to his wife, artist Marcelle Matta, and causing the threat to
his small family. The fire obsession became part of phobia that accompanied him until
his last days. These nightmarish concerns spontaneously expressed themselves after
being locked away for years. They appeared in smoke clouds and flames dancing in
every way in tapered edges on smoky backgrounds, and scattered leaves and charred
flying fabrics under curtains of tufts that show transparency by the implementation of
lines bundles reveal their backgrounds of parallel spaces between those lines.
directions and shapes that wander in a vast cosmic space are flying, breaking
the perimeter of the painting from the
top to down and from down to the top
another time; the spaces are varying from
small to large to achieve a rebellious
dynamic atmosphere of a special kind
without using the academic perspective
to express the depth. Elements look
enormous in the spaces where the front
element accumulates over sequential
in size layers to express the symbolic
depth. The conflicting directions achieve
a chaotic kinesthetic sensation for these
linear strands that appear to the eye of
the viewer, putting him in front of a sense
of attention and apprehension in search
of a common fate of these troubled
elements on the surface of the painting Oil on toile - 130 x 130 cm.
172
