Presented as part of a roundtable discussion, "On the Confines of Modernism and Art of the Arab World" at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art.

1. Traces of acculturation in the
works of Arab artists
Dr. Yasser Mongy
April 15, 2014

2. Paulo Forcella )Born ca. 1868)
, one of the main masters of
the Egyptian school of Fine
arts, Cairo, during the first
two dicades of the 20th
century.
Dr. Emad Abu-Gazi’s archive
Camillo Innocenti(1871 – 1961), director of the
Egyptian school of Fine arts, Cairo, during the
Thirties of the 20th century.
Portrait of Innocenti by the Italian painter AgazziI
Rinaldo (1857-1939), 1936. © Artvalue.com

4. Bernard Rice (1900 – 1998), Rammuda,
Linocut, © V&A Museum collections.
Nahmia Saad (1912 – 1945), The Nile, ca. late
of the 30s, Museum of Modern Egyptian Art,
Cairo, Egypt.

5. Hamed Nada (1924 – 1990), Sleepy Cat, 1948. Museum
of Fine Arts, Alexandria, Egypt.
Image from “Al-taswir al-hadith fi misr” (Modern
Painting in Egypt), Aimé Azar, translated from the French
by Naim Attia & Edward Kharat; Cairo: The National
Project for Translation, Supreme Council for Culture,
2006.

6. Diego Revira (1886 – 1957), on of “Detroit Industry
Murals”, fresco, 1932-33, Upper part of the North Wall,
Detroit Institute of Arts.

7. Abd-El-Hadi El-Gazzar (1925 – 1966),
Distny, 1949, collection of Mary
Cavadia.
Image from “Al-taswir al-hadith fi
misr” (Modern Painting in Egypt),
Aimé Azar, translated from the French
by Naim Attia & Edward Kharat; Cairo:
The National Project for Translation,
Supreme Council for Culture, 2006.

8. Samir Rafi (1926 – 2004), ca.
the first half of the Forties.
Museum of Modern Egyptian
Art, Cairo, Egypt.

9. Hieronymus Bosch (1450 – 1516), The
Concert in the Egg, ca.1561.
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

10. Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525 – 1569), The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1562,
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.

11. Abd-El-Hadi El-Gazzar, Waiting for the end, chinese
ink on paper, 1964, private collection.

12. Albrecht Durer (1471 – 1528), Knight, Death & the Devil,
1513.
Source/Photographer: National Gallery of Art: online
database: entry 1941.1.20

13. Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (La nascita di Venere), 1483-1485.
Uffizi, Florence
Omar Onsi (1901 – 1969), Venus,
circa the late 20s

14. Tintoretto (1518 – 1594), Suzanna and the Elders, c. 1555.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Omar Onsi, Stalking, ca the late 20s

15. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882),
The Blessed Damozel, 1871-1878.
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Nazir Nabaa (Born 1938), 1976.
Mathaf collection.

16. Hamed Owais (1919 – 2011),
Construction, 1957

17. Kazimir Malevich (1879 – 1935), Taking in the rye,
1911. the Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands.

18. Kazimir Malevich, The Floor Polishers,
1912.
The Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands.

19. Hamed Owais, ca 1956

20. Manganaris, 1930s. Museum of
Fine Arts, Alexandria, Egypt.

21. Ahmed Mustafa (Born 1943), the cube, 1998.
© Dr. Ahmed Mustafa’s official website.

22. Ahmed Mustafa, 99 Names of Allah, 1989.
© Dr. Ahmed Mustafa’s official website.

23. Albrecht Durer, Melincolia1
Albrecht Durer
(1471 – 1528),
Melencolia I, 1514.
Print place:
Multible museums.

24. Ahmed Mustafa, Landscape in Due,
Measure and Proportion 1997.
© Dr. Ahmed Mustafa’s official website.

25. Luca Pacioli (1445 – 1517), attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari,
1495.
Capodimonte Museum, Naples

26. Ahmed Mustafa, The movement of
Shadow 1996.
© Dr. Ahmed Mustafa’s official
website

27. M. C. Escher (1898 – 1972), Hand with
Reflecting Sphere, 1935.
Print place: Multible museums.

28. M. C. Escher and his Polyhedron model.
© Squaring the Circle: Geometry in Art &
Architecture, by Paul Calter, Wily, 2008.
Ahmed Mustafa.
© Fe-Noon Ahmed Moustafa (UK) Ltd website

29. Acculturation
Dialogue of civilizations