.The significance of the Muhammed Naji Museum

 The significance of the Muhammed Naji Museum:

As soon as the visitor enters the museum, he feels that he will meet the artist Muhammad Naji inside, or he will see him standing next to his works of art that cover the walls and give them prestige, elegance and magic unmistakable to the eye, he receives him warmly and begins to conduct discussions with him about each of his paintings. Yes, how can we not imagine him doing this when he spent the last four years of his life during which he continued to innovate until his last breath.

 Division of the museum:

The museum includes 1,200 paintings distributed in two main galleries. The first was the artist's studio.

 The second was created by the Ministry of Culture to display the paintings.

In addition to a library and a store that contains some works and collectibles.

The museum also includes a number of Muhammad Naji's private collections, such as: a rocking chair that was always sitting on, and a wooden box containing his elegant uniforms, as well as an old “chiffonira” dating back to the beginning of the twentieth century, and this is because Muhammad Naji, who assumed a number of tasks and positions in the state, was Very elegant and known for his eligibility and distinctive appearance, which is parallel to his high artistic taste in what he paints.

The hall built by the Ministry of Culture is characterized by an architecture that suits the features of Naji's studio, as it has a ceiling with a huge white panel that the artist called "harvesting dates" and depicts the customs of Egyptians in picking and collecting date fruits. The hall also includes the painting "Moses", which reveals the influence of Naji with the stories of the Qur’an. Karim, where his plaque embodied the story of Moses, peace be upon him, and picked him up from the river .. It is a painting by the artist Naji in 1939 In the context also, the Nile has a prominent presence in Nagy's works, as it embodied the happiness of the people of the Egyptian south in the flood that prevails with good and silt, as well as the singing of women and children in the new water season.

The most important works placed in the hall of the Ministry of Culture:

Date harvest painting: It depicts the customs of Egyptians in picking and harvesting dates

- Moussa painting: Naji embodied with this painting the story of our master Musa, a picture taken from the river, and was drawn in 1939.

- Nile painting and the happiness of the people of the Egyptian south in the flood and silt, and women and children singing in the new water season.

The Shepherd in Luxor, the Egyptian countryside, and the fishermen.

The musician, the bearing, the harvesting of dates, the goodness of the country, the tears of Isis.

a look:

Nagy's works in the museum are divided into three stages:

 The first is his trip to Italy and his influence on the academic school:

 Whereas at the beginning of the trip he chose the Italian school to be his way into the world of art, at that stage Nagy presented a number of works that illustrate his influence with the influential school, and he took from them an artistic outlet, and used them with his works with a pure Egyptian touch that reflects the lives of peasants, workers and simple people in the Egyptian countryside, even Nagy's work revolved around the life of the rural Egyptians, and portrayed the pain, joy, and agony it contains, and Nagy's dealings with the countryside were not out of the view of the orientalist, but rather an involvement in one way or another in that life with its various features. He soon rebelled against the influential school, especially the painter Claude Monet.

Nagy was also influenced by ancient murals that resemble the first art of man on the face of the earth, as he was inspired by a unique touch of his works, and paintings of a natural-looking wall character appeared, so Naji focused on the relationship of the place with the characters, so the paintings appear pure Egyptian with a historical rooting outlook. To preserve this wall pattern, Nagy presented many paintings that embody his own perception of Pharaonic Egyptian art.

 The second stage was his journey to Abyssinia:

Where he traveled to Ethiopia on an artistic mission in 1931, and that trip embodied a clear shift in Naji's sense of color and nature, through the picturesque views that were guaranteed by the Ethiopian nature, and he also had the opportunity to photograph the then-Abyssinian monarch Haile Selassie, the court clerics, the clergy and many prominent Ethiopian figures at that time.

Third stage: Mohamed Nagy roaming in the Egyptian governorates:

It seems that most of the artists of that period were influenced by the Egyptian interior despite their Western studies, so the West was not the basis for their creativity, so the works came with an Egyptian poetic specificity, we note this in:

- The painting “Al-Rahaya”, in which the survivors of women were depicted as they were grinding pills with their black robes, their features and the colors of their skin that reflect the features of the Egyptian land, as well as their perseverance reflected by a woman who sits on a squat and moves the sheep to grind the pills and puts a light smile on her face, with kohl surrounding her eye.

- As well as the painting "Medicine in the Countryside", in which he portrayed the medicinal and medicinal customs in the countryside and the recitation of the Holy Quran to children.