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Gazbia Sirry
Born
Gazbia Sirry
October 11, 1925
Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt
Died
November 10, 2021 (aged 96)
Nationality
Egyptian
Education
Higher Institute of Art Education for Women Teachers (currently the Faculty of Arts Education at Helwan University
Known for
Painting
Style
Abstract Expressionism
Awards
Order of Sciences and Arts
Gazbia Sirry (Arabic: جاذبية سري) (11 October 1925 – 10 November 2021[1]) was an Egyptian painter.
Born in Cairo, Gazbia Sirry studied fine arts at the Higher Institute of Art Education for Women Teachers in 1950 (currently known as the Faculty of Art Education at Helwan University), where her dissertation traced Egypt's political history. She later became a professor there, and also at the American University in Cairo. She has had more than 50 personal exhibitions, official purchases by international museums, international prizes, scholarships and university chairs.[2] The paintings of Sirry capture the relationship between social reform, feminist consciousness and advocacy of women.[3] Because of their eclecticism and heterogeneity of modern Egypt, Sirry's paintings were widely celebrated.
Her early work was dominated by images of women in unmistakable poses of power, performing roles in the public and private spheres, and celebrating female unity. In the late nineteen fifties, Sirry made stylistic and thematic changes to reflect the grim mood created by discontent with the crackdown on dissent and curtailment of political freedom across the country. It also became increasingly abstract: by the 1960s this shift was apparent. While on fellowship at the Huntington Hartford Foundation in Pacific Palisades, California, 1965, she was introduced to the American style of abstract expressionism; in interviews Sirry credited this time in her life with “profound impact upon her art practice."[4] Her shift towards abstraction has also been linked some scholars to political unrest and especially the Six-Day War of1967.[5] The full abstraction was replaced in the early 1970s by the reappearance of human forms, but the dark paintings represent the fears of Sirry about the fortunes of women's emancipation. The dominant bright colors and pyramidal shapes of her paintings show the national pride and enthusiasm following the Ramadan/Yom Kippur War of 1973 in the later part of the 1970s.[6]
^وزيرة الثقافة تنعى الفنانة التشكيلية جاذبية سري (in Arabic)
^"Zamalek Art Gallery, Artist Gazbia Sirry Biography". www.zamalekartgallery.com. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
^"Egyptian Modern Art | Essay | the Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
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