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vents. With all this variety, Selim remained keen to use canvas while most of
his early young artists at time tended to use celotex and particle boards. Thus, he
maintained the proportion of the rectangle in the spaces of his paintings at a time
when most of the modern Egyptian artists in the 1960s to a large extent tended to
square spaces which resulted from the use of these boards, especially 122 × 122 cm
boards or their subdivisions.
In the 1960s, Egypt was suffering from a shortage of imported raw materials and
artists worked hard to use the available ones in local markets; some of which were
prepared for industrial purposes. The raw materials became the media through which
you can interact through its influence, and the intervention to adapt the raw materials
to an artistic form. The artist discovered during his interaction with the raw materials
and media special techniques through coloring, pouring, scraping, multiple layers,
shading, dyeing and pasting; he gained awareness and experience in the use of these
media for his plastic and expressive purposes.
The 1960s was a period of glow in the Egyptian art movement, and it was a stage
of creative fertility and active discovery for Ahmed Fouad Selim, especially from
1964 to 1970, when he devoted himself to artistic creativity and experiments in the
manifestations of visual language and research in its energies and taming it to his
poetic record on the one hand and the standard methodological mentality on the
other.
Oil on toile - 1961
182
his early young artists at time tended to use celotex and particle boards. Thus, he
maintained the proportion of the rectangle in the spaces of his paintings at a time
when most of the modern Egyptian artists in the 1960s to a large extent tended to
square spaces which resulted from the use of these boards, especially 122 × 122 cm
boards or their subdivisions.
In the 1960s, Egypt was suffering from a shortage of imported raw materials and
artists worked hard to use the available ones in local markets; some of which were
prepared for industrial purposes. The raw materials became the media through which
you can interact through its influence, and the intervention to adapt the raw materials
to an artistic form. The artist discovered during his interaction with the raw materials
and media special techniques through coloring, pouring, scraping, multiple layers,
shading, dyeing and pasting; he gained awareness and experience in the use of these
media for his plastic and expressive purposes.
The 1960s was a period of glow in the Egyptian art movement, and it was a stage
of creative fertility and active discovery for Ahmed Fouad Selim, especially from
1964 to 1970, when he devoted himself to artistic creativity and experiments in the
manifestations of visual language and research in its energies and taming it to his
poetic record on the one hand and the standard methodological mentality on the
other.
Oil on toile - 1961
182
