For The Sake Of Colour By Mohamed El Masry

Egypt Mon 19-07-2010

For The Sake Of Colour By Mohamed El Masry
By Maria Pestana

Maria Pestana art gallery online would like to introduce you to 'For The Sake of Colour' by Mohamed El Masry in their monthly online exhibition showcase.

Colour plays a central role in Mohamed El Masry's paintings. The vivid colours define the shapes which compose together personages and motifs in the paintings.

Untitled by Mohamed El masry

^{Untitled | Mohamed El Masry 140 by 122 cm | Oil on Canvas}

Masry tries to liberate himself from rules. As Vlaminck wrote the artist wished “to liberate nature, to free it from the authority”. Colour is undoubtedly the means of expressing the feelings of the artist. In this sense Masry's paintings are linked to the masters obsessed with colour. But colour as a means of expression rather than description.

In making colour the protagonist of the painting Masry eludes superfluous elements. The painting is reduced to colour. Colour finds the shapes. Colour and shape will be mastered by the feelings of the artist.

Untitled by Mohamed El Masry

^{Untitled | 140 by 120 cm | Oil on canvas}

Spanish translation below:

El color juega un papel central en las pinturas de Mohamed El Masry. Los colores vivos definen las formas que componen, junto a personajes y motivos sus pinturas. Masry trata de liberarse de las normas.

Como Vlaminck escribió, el artista deseaba "liberar a la naturaleza, liberarse de la autoridad". El color es sin duda el medio para expresar los sentimientos del artista. En este sentido las pinturas de Masry enlazan con los maestros obsesionados por el color.

Pero el color como medio de expresión más que descripción. Al hacer del color el protagonista de su pintura Masry elude elementos superfluos. La pintura se reduce al color. El color encuentra las formas. El color y la forma son dominados por los sentimientos del artista.

View on line exhibition at http://www.mariapestanaartgallery.com/

Mohamed El Masry's artist portfolio on www.africancolours.com can be viewed here.

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Your Comments

alex: hi mohamed your work is intersting by the way do we know in ethiopia? i remember you we take workshop togethe am i wright?

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