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Sakr and his vision at the end, and be-
came peculiar to characterize the work of
this thinker artist who is working on them,
giving them a new character consistent
with his creative production that always
resulting from research where there is no
chance of coincidence or spontaneity in
his work which is in the general stylized
with intent and steeped in a clever mind
led by a spirit of eagerness and passion.
Perhaps this is what makes us here pursue
the artist's career that led to the achieve-
ment of this art project, reaching to that
great station entitled “Egypt’s Earth”, this
profound clear bright title that succeeded
in crowning this great creative effort pre-
sented through the crowds of paintings,
uttering its superior artistic ability and
its visual eloquence that shows how this
charming expression and germination of
the idea emerged.
The artist started his experience with the
sand several decades ago, especially
since the mid-eighties of the last century,
where he combined the sand in the struc-
ture of his abstract paintings during his
many attempts to enrich the texture of the
painting and give it the vitality of the pres-
ence of elements and natural materials; at
the forefront of these are sand and hand-
made paper paste, in addition to oxides
of the color taken directly from the envi-
ronment that is rich in stones and colorful
nature powders.
In the midst of the artist's experiences and
his permanent transitions from time to time
between the numerous graphic prints and
its various media such as stones, leather,
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came peculiar to characterize the work of
this thinker artist who is working on them,
giving them a new character consistent
with his creative production that always
resulting from research where there is no
chance of coincidence or spontaneity in
his work which is in the general stylized
with intent and steeped in a clever mind
led by a spirit of eagerness and passion.
Perhaps this is what makes us here pursue
the artist's career that led to the achieve-
ment of this art project, reaching to that
great station entitled “Egypt’s Earth”, this
profound clear bright title that succeeded
in crowning this great creative effort pre-
sented through the crowds of paintings,
uttering its superior artistic ability and
its visual eloquence that shows how this
charming expression and germination of
the idea emerged.
The artist started his experience with the
sand several decades ago, especially
since the mid-eighties of the last century,
where he combined the sand in the struc-
ture of his abstract paintings during his
many attempts to enrich the texture of the
painting and give it the vitality of the pres-
ence of elements and natural materials; at
the forefront of these are sand and hand-
made paper paste, in addition to oxides
of the color taken directly from the envi-
ronment that is rich in stones and colorful
nature powders.
In the midst of the artist's experiences and
his permanent transitions from time to time
between the numerous graphic prints and
its various media such as stones, leather,
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