Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar

Enas El Hendy, Abdel Hadi El Gazzar: Reading into the Consciousness of People, Cairo, 2010, p. 182, illustrated

The artist's sheet is laid on board, apparently by the artist himself. This work is in good original condition and ready to hang. Presented in a simple gilt frame, with a cloth-covered inner slip. The greens are much less blue, and more luminous, in reality than in the catalogue illustration.
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Abdel Hadi El Gazzar can be seen as the father of the Egyptian contemporary art movement, dismissing from the late 1950s received ideas about what modern art should be. He was a key member of the Contemporay Art Group, which was founded by his professor Hussein Youseff Amin. El Gazzar rejected the trope of defining Egyptian identity based on western precepts. His abstract paintings are a direct development of his oeuvre from the depiction to folkoric scenes, to the seashell period and the scientific man.

This work is El Gazzar's attempt to dismantle doxa imposed by the art schools, patrons, as well as critics. This abstract and vivid green palette is a direct correlation with his thoughts on mental and spiritual freedom.