I'm fayrouz Samir Abd Elbaqi , I'm an artist
I'm an assistant professor in faculty of fine arts, painting section
I started getting into art when i was about five years old
that was because my mother was creating puppets she was a puppet show director
and she had a room in the house that served as an atelier
so we would go in and see her draw and create characters
and design the dolls when we were little
in addition to my father, the poet Samir Abdel Baqi, who would often tell us stories
that he writes for children and i would draw them
and I made my first book when I was 7 years old
my dad made me a surprise , he collected all of my drawings and printed them into a book called "A message to the sun"
so i was raised in a house that appreciates art
my mother, Naglaa Raafat, would take me with her to the theater
when she was directing or when she was designing the decor
so i was used to the lighting and the colors
so i learned from start to finish how to the work on the papers becomes a reality on set
My mom is an Art school graduate
so I have always wanted to be like her
after senior year, I got a high score ,
so all my friends started to tell me ..
....to not waste my grade and not go to art school
but i knew my goal and passion
so i enrolled in art school
at first , I enjoyed the graphic section
but i stayed a bit there and didn't like it
and so I switched to painting and sculpting
i would go to the sculpting section during the afternoon
i would try to balance all three sections
going to art school is fun
its more of an inspiring atmosphere than..
you actually learning information .
so it was a great experience to begin my art journey professionally
when I first started , I met dr. Weshahi, god bless his soul
he was an amazing artist
we would often discuss..
that I was like a sponge
I wanted to learn everything
and why the school had separate sections
and I tried to do that
so I tried all three sections and
and that inspired me and taught me a lot of things
and it gave me the idea. After liberate myself from the graduation project
I would go and draw things from around local areas, Al Hossein , Cairo Citadel ....
for example the Local Bathing rooms caught my attention
its still there and it is frequented by many
so I made my graduation project about it
I started using a large areas 4m x 2m
it was a huge challenge for me
that made me have more freedom with the extra spaces
and I wanted to portray the ancient walls
and at the same time give it a modern twist
after the Master degree and PhD degree
I began asking myself what is the purpose of my art
I'm not doing art so it to be pretty
I'm sending a message
an idea,
our PhD is called the philosophy of painting
so I wanted to convey a philosophy through the canvas
I began experimenting
the Bougainvillas caught my attention from all over egypt
I'm always thinking of egypt
I'm always looking back to my roots
so I displayed my art in a gallery and called it [bougainvilleas]
showing various shapes and colors in every piece
but I let go of normal varieties of shapes
I would use geometrical shapes
circles , squares , triangles......
use different techniques every time
Etching , stencil,..... I was trying all techniques
that also gave me confidence
after that I started getting into digital art
and started digitally painting and then repaint over it.
that allowed me to use various styles in the same canvas
at the end it is painting .. when I paint using oil
or acrylic material
it is converted back to be a painting ..
after it was just a print or just a digital
after this..
the recent idea that I used in my latest art show..
where I went back to old style
I searched about the old Egyptian art
I wanted to go back
as we are the reference of Art, the artwork of Fayoum
the famous Fayoum Faces is the beginning of profile painting
how they started to mix the color oxides and pigments powder
with honey wax all natural
stones and honey wax that gave it durability
to allow it to be exist till now
even before they start
to discover adding oils to the color powder
to be an oil based colors
I decided to search
on this specific technique to master it
also ..
with a modern approach
to use the old technique in a modern artwork
all the artworks inspired from the Lake of Fayoum
I spent a lot of time at the lake side
to feel the colors changes
and forms changes
I have all my art exhibition about
Lake of Fayoum
but by using the Encaustic technique
by using honey wax, fire and heat
at current time
the world is wide open
not as we were students before 10 years
to find an artwork or a book
or to visit a museum we were suffering..
it is difficult to travel to France
or the USA
just to watch the artwork of the world
The internet help a lot to visit
all the museums and see other artists work
this gave us the eas to find the right conception
that you want and take ideas from here and ther
and develop your individual art character
I displayed my art outside Egypt, in italy
I was a comesear
in the Mediterranean sea art festival
also in Kuwait
and Russia
that gave me a good experience
with the big world of art
we have to consider art
as the language of the world
and in the contrary, the more your art portrays you
the more original it becomes
all artists learn from each other but,
the idea is how to be independent with your own character and work
so that your art is like your own fingerprint
Egypt is full of tourist attractions rich with art and shows our heritage
filled with different ideas and subjects
so I always keep them in mind
its subconscious
my eyes are always drawn to egyptian works of art
for example cats tail grass
cats tail grass, you find it around roads
around water canals
around lakes
everywhere in Egypt
I started looking at it
how its colors changes, the shapes changes over seasons
then it blooms with a beautiful flower
nice white flowers
then it turns to yellow dead plant
I started consider it as an art subject
to study it
I made a big art exhibition I called it "wind grass"
I went out the familiar
I played with colors, shapes and harmony
the outcome from local items..
that we encounter every day ..
to a new item that you would be surprise that you have seen before
you can find my originality
in the encaustic
the material is purely Egyptian
you can find it in my models. I draw a lot of figures
the egyptian woman is a frequent topic in my mind
I made a series called [ i don't want to...]
i don't want to listen
i don't want to talk
i don't want to see
it's about a woman being in a social environment
much like our arabic environment that we live in
and that she refuses to listen or talk
a kind of refusal to the never ending rules of society
that always push woman back instead of forward
and in other paintings
I used the woman by herself
in a situation where she's waiting
where shes observing the world
where shes batteling inner turmoil
there's also a group of drawings I've done about cancer patients
something I've experienced second hand
about how the medecine sucks the life out of the patient and not the sickness itself
so that was an experience just like many others
in this world, the internet has become an important tool to us all
it opened an important road to all artists
that you can
present your artwork at anytime
without needing to put it in a gallerie
and all the planning that comes with it
and all the money you spent on it
the internet allows us to see our work any time with a click of a button
it has great benefits for us all with us able to post about all kinds of work
and we have to use that to our advantage
if we don't
then we are ignoring the outside contact
and lose our touch with the world
of course the idea of ghadaelzayat.com
is an excellent idea,
cause it opened a door to post your artwork online as a serious project
and it's safe
and it will hopefully be very successful , its very safe
so the artist doesn't have to be afraid that their drawings are going to be used
or unprotected
and that encouraged me
and i know her from college
she's a serious , hard working person
so that made me very supportive of her idea
of course other artists got encouraged like me
the website is enriched with people that project their artwork ,
and I hope that I continue my work
and give her more pieces of work and put them on sale
in such an open field of artwork marketing
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