Egypt through the eyes of the artist Mohamed Nagy

 Egypt through the eyes of the artist Mohamed Nagy:

Regarding Egyptian customs as well, Nagy presented several paintings during his visit to Luxor - southern Egypt, and depicted the customs of women in joys and the features of human beings on their authentic Egyptian faces, as well as their grief in cases of death and funerals. He also drew the customs of Egyptians during hunting animals, and also painted Sheikh «Abd al-Rasool. »The owner of the hotel in which he was staying in Luxor.

Nagy also presented a set of paintings that reflect his influence with the climate of independence and the renaissance that accompanied the Egyptian national movement in the twenties of the last century, which left a great impact on him, through the national leader Mustafa Kamel ... as well as the Dinshaway incident that shook the feelings of Egyptians as a whole and artists in particular, as he gifted him The national leader, Mustafa Kamel, a photograph that remains among his possessions today. Naji inspired the features of Mustafa Kamel's spiritual mother and patron of his patriotic vocation, Juliet Adam, and paints it in a large painting that adorns his museum as a masterpiece to this day.

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We also see in the museum a comprehensive overview that tells about Naji's personal life, as he has several portraits of him and his family. Pictures of his family with servants are in an oil painting in the middle of the museum. He also presented a portrait of his sister, the plastic artist, “Effat Naji,” carrying her cat. With his distinctive brushes, he painted his teachers and those who added much to him in his life.

 The matter did not stop at this point, but showed his love and appreciation for some national figures, through their portraits, such as: Hoda Shaarawi, Taha Hussein, Ahmed Shawky and others. Nagy's accomplishments did not stop at the end of his museum alone, as there is a large mural that resides in the Mouwasat Hospital in Alexandria and fits with the character of the hospital, in which he presents the value and content of medicine for Arabs and ancient Egyptians, as well as his painting about the renaissance of Egypt in the Egyptian parliament building, which has been placed there from 1922 until the moment. .

A creative man who cleverly married law and formation:

Mohamed Nagy is considered one of the most important pioneers in Egyptian plastic art, and it can be classified as belonging to the early Egyptian artists and the first generation who placed the first building blocks in the concept of Egyptian plastic art, as he was born in the Muharram Bey neighborhood in Alexandria in 1888, and began his artistic life early at the end of his high school. He began studying the art of painting at the Italian artist Beatoli's studio in Alexandria in 1906, and his studies of art and law coincided in parallel, as he satisfied his desire to study art and traveled to Italy and studied painting at the Academy of Arts in Florence, after studying law at the University of Lyon in France, immediately after Returning from Italy, he worked with the French painter Andrei Lot.

The museum's location prevents it from being well received:

It seems that the current site of the museum, for its visitors, is somewhat a crisis. Although it was good and the artist chose it himself six years before his departure, the artist’s choice of a remote location to enjoy peace and tranquility in his studio, which was later turned into a museum, has become an obstacle for the public who finds it difficult to frequent a place on the outskirts of the city, and then Only the educated class, plastic art lovers and students of fine arts come to the museum, while the ordinary public finds it difficult. This is what some specialists see that it requires great effort and elaborate and accurate planning, which provides the ability to overcome these difficulties, so that the value of the museum and the value of its owner remain fresh and marked and passed on to new generations, to tell the biography of one of the Egyptian saints.

Loyalty to heritage and interaction with modernism art schools:

Mohamed Nagy enriched the Egyptian and Arab art movement in general, with creations that formed a pivotal point in this field. As he did not fail to emulate everything new in art and formation, worldwide, and thus did not make barriers between it and modernity in its various schools of art. However, at the same time, he refused to make this approach and the artistic choice that he adopted a justification and justification in order to forget the vocabulary of his environment and his society in the embodiments of his creativity, so he remained true to the Egyptian and Arab heritage, and continued to reflect its ethics and contents in a creative way pregnant with lessons and connotations that tell the value of our Arab arts and the status of our heritage. .

Many critics in the field believe that Muhammad Naji was a revered one, but he did not abandon classicism and did not abandon the components of his social legacy to reflect it in his various paintings and works. Thus, it has become a model for the artist loyal to his culture and adhering to originality, in parallel with the introduction of creative artistic renewal contexts.