The First and unprecedented Annual Small Works Exhibition by such contemporary Egyptian painters as Aya Al-Fallah, Britt Botrous Ghali, Samir Fouad, Hassan Abdel-Fattah, Wagih Yassa, Mustafa Rahma, Mohamed Rabie, Omar Al-Fayoumi is currently on show at Picasso gallery. For Hassan Abdel-Fattah, the main interest is the landscape in Upper Egypt and he gained fame for his daring drawings and for preserving the freshness of the sketch and the hotness of the colour, which earned his paintings a special taste and vitality and sparkling colour. Abdel-Fattah belongs to Ragheb Ayad school. Ayad, the great pioneer of painting in Egypt, firmly believed that the line is the basis of the artistic development which determines the composition and moves the eye. The artist has blended in his creations between the static lines such as the extension in the mountains and the river and the harmony of motion as in the small coloured fishing boats with the fishermen nets in the background that break the regularity of the horizontal lines of the river. The artist was influenced intellectually and artistically by the Fatimid Cairo area where he was brought up. This was reflected in his interest in Islamic architecture arts in this area, which is rich in the monumental mosques built by the Fatimid caliphs and the Mameluk Sultans. He had his own vision when establishing the Faculty of Fine Arts in Luxor, which he wanted to be a purely Egyptian study in connection with the splendor of the place and the Luxor heritage as a basic starting point of modernity and authentic creativity without the need for European interpretations. The exhibition continues until 2 August.
