Syed Abdul Rasul Ibrahim

Personal data

Nickname: Syed Abdel Rasoul
Date of birth: 20/6/1917
Date of death: 19/9/1995
Specialization: photography
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school grade

- Diploma - Department of Ceramics from industrial schools 1936.
He studied at the Italian Leonardo Da Vinci Institute in Cairo 1939.
He studied in the free section under the artist Ahmed Sabry at the Higher School of Fine Arts from 1942 to 1946.
He obtained a diploma from the Academy of Art, Painting, Rome, 1950.
- Obtained a Diploma in Art Medal in Rome 1953.
Studies in ceramic art at Conti Verdi Institute, Rome.
- Studies in graphic art - lithography - San Giacomo Institute.

Jobs and occupations undertaken by the artist

Professor and Head of the Painting and Decoration Department at the Higher Institute - Leonardo da Vinci - Cairo
- Seconded to teach at the College of Applied Arts - Cairo.
He was seconded to teach at the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams, Cairo.
He was assigned to teach at the College of Education, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia.
He was assigned to teach at the Higher Institute of Cinema, Academy of Arts, Cairo.

The places where the artist lived

- Cairo .

Special exhibitions

He has many private exhibitions in Egypt, Italy, Moscow, Beijing, Budapest in Hungary, Vienna, Brussels, Lebanon, Germany and France.
- He held a special exhibition in the Extra Gallery in Zamalek, Cairo, 1993
An exhibition was held for him on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his death, in the Cairo Atelier, 1995
On the occasion of the second anniversary of the death of the artist, Sayed Abdel Rasoul, an exhibition of his works was held in (Khan Al-Maghrabi), which included 50 paintings of his works (oil painting) in 1997.
An exhibition was held on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of his death in Al Marsam Hall, Nasr City, 1999
- An exhibition was held on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of his death, in Ibdaa Hall, Ahmed Shawky Museum, 2000
Bakhan Al-Maghribi Exhibition 2001.
- Exhibition in Akhenaten Halls (2, 3) at the Arts Complex in Zamalek, 2004.
- An exhibition in Ofoq Hall at the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum and his wife, April 2017.

Local group exhibitions

- Participated in the plastic art movement in many public exhibitions, including the Cairo Salon - Fine Arts Lovers Association, from 1956 until his death.
Contemporary Egyptian Art Exhibition at the Grand Serail, Paris, France, March 1976.
Contemporary Egyptian Art Exhibition, Fine Arts Hall, Cairo, June 1976.
- Spring Exhibition - Art Graduates Association - in Cairo and Alexandria.
Bakhan Al-Maghribi Exhibition (The Sixties are the Best Days), 2001.
The National Graphic Art Exhibition, the third session, 2005.
- An exhibition entitled (In the Frame), Khan Al-Maghrabi Gallery, Zamalek, 2007.
- Collections Exhibition of the Museum of Fine Arts in Alexandria, `Hussein Sobhy`, in (Al-Bab - Selim) Hall, Museum of Modern Egyptian Art, May 2010.
- Exhibition (The National Team 3) in Cordoba Hall, Mohandessin, December 2010.
- Exhibition (Egyptian Selections), Picasso Gallery, Zamalek, March 2011.
The First Cordoba Salon for Small Business in Cordoba Hall, March 2011.
- Cairo Salon (56) for Fine Arts, Palace of Arts, March 2013.
- Exhibition (Treasures of the Fourth Pyramid) at the Art Hall of Al-Ahram Foundation, downtown, August 2017.
- Exhibition (Times of Art) at Picasso Gallery, Zamalek, July 2018.
- Exhibition (Immortal Creators) at Diya Gallery, Mohandessin, September 2018.
- An exhibition entitled (Selections) at Ibdaa Gallery in Zamalek, November 2019.
- An exhibition entitled (From Mukhtar to Attraction) at Art Talks Gallery in Zamalek, December 2019.
- The third exhibition entitled (Arabic Selections) at the (Dhi) Gallery of Arts and Culture in Mohandessin, May 2021.
- Exhibition (Generations) at (Hala Art Gallery) in Nasr City, September 2021.
- An exhibition entitled (Art for All) at (Salama Art Gallery) in Mohandessin, December 2021.
- Exhibition (Collectibles) at (Ibdaa) Art Gallery in Zamalek, July 2021.
- An exhibition entitled (Selections) in the Gallery (Ibdaa) in Zamalek, March 2022.
- An exhibition entitled (Arabic Selections), the fourth in the (Dhi) Gallery of Arts and Culture in Mohandessin, June 2022.
- An exhibition entitled (Creative Immortals) at (Dhaa) Gallery of Culture and Arts in Zamalek and Mohandessin, September 2022.
- An exhibition entitled (From Mukhtar to Attraction) at Art Talks Gallery in Zamalek, October 2022.
- An exhibition entitled (Arabic Selections 2023) at the (Dhi) Gallery for Arts and Culture in Mohandessin and Zamalek, July 2023.

International group exhibitions / overseas fairs

- Participated in the Alexandria Biennale in 1958 and 1960.
- Participated in the International Venice Biennale - Italy.
- Participated in the San Paolo Biennale, Brazil.
- Participated in the (Cannes) exhibition of ceramics in America.
- Participated in the first New Delhi Triennale 1961, India.
- Participated in the Brussels International Exhibition - Belgium.
- Participated in the Vienna International Exhibition - Austria.
- Participated in the (Sawyadko) Biennale.
- Exhibition (From the Nile to the Two Holy Mosques) at the Jeddah Art Atelier, Saudi Arabia, February 2015.

Technical visits

- Italy, France, Russia, India, China, Hungary, Belgium, Lebanon, Germany, USA, Spain.

Missions and grants

- Received an internal scholarship (Luxor Studio Award) for 3 years to study ancient Egyptian art.
He received a scholarship to Italy from the Academy of Rome in 1950.

Local and international encyclopedias in which the artist's name is listed

- A book entitled `Sayed Abd al-Rasul` published by the Egyptian General Book Organization - prepared by the artist / Sayed Huwaidi.

local awards

In the forties, he won the first prize for sculpture in the Mukhtar competition (One Thousand and One Nights).
- Won the second prize in the (Egyptian Countryside) competition.
- The first artist to receive the State Encouragement Award in 1958
- The first artist to receive the Medal of Arts and Sciences in 1958
He won the first prize for painting for 3 consecutive years 57, 58 and 1959 at the Cairo Salon of the Fine Arts Lovers Association.
- Won the first prize in photography in the competition of the Ministry of Culture Landscapes 1959.

He won the Excellence Award in the art of photography at the Cairo Salon in 1960.

International awards

First prize in painting, 1958, and first prize in engraving, 1960, from the Alexandria Biennale.
First Excellence Award at the New Delhi International Triennial 1961.
- Gold Medal of the Brussels Exhibition.

Private collectibles

- With some individuals in Egypt and abroad.

Official collectibles

- In most Egyptian museums.
- In most foreign museums.
- In most embassies abroad.

Important works of art in the artist's life

- The painting 'The Morning', for which he won the State Encouragement Award in 1958.

The influences that were reflected on the artist intellectually and artistically

Aziz is an artist of diversified production, who practices the art of oil painting and graphics, and produces ceramics and pottery. In all of this, he relies on the inspiration of the popular character and the expression of life in the countryside. His works echo Pharaonic art with features of Coptic art, and he collected them in a special and distinctive style. With its distinctive features, and gaining new characteristics from him to link it to the heritage, he cares about the decorations of clothes and the background, using comfortable, balanced colors to draw the same decorative units that popular art is famous for.
The peculiarity of Sayed Abd al-Rasul comes in the compilation of three axes in his art.
The first axis is clearly influenced by Professor Ragheb Ayad, which is the objective side.
- The second axis is influenced by the Pharaonic art in terms of the method of moving shapes on the walls of tombs, which is related to human recipes and the external contour of the shape.
The third axis is his influence on the famous Italian artist / Massimo Campelli, which is apparent in the darkening of spaces, the rough surface texture and the soft gradation. Sayed Abd al-Rasoul’s view of things was a reductive view that summarized the form from its original elements and rebuilt it again with an objective meaning that highlights its plastic value, as it connects the form with the act of abstraction that connects it. To the field of plausibility, and that the absence of the natural and its scenes in its true realistic forms constituted the style of his middle stage, but he traced its impact in his simple and enjoyable style in his last stage, emphasizing its presence within the artistic space and recording it in order to perform its semantic function and monitor its aesthetic relationship in a realistic style permeated by folklore visions of things.
Sayed Abd al-Rasul remained faithful to the method of art with abundant production, and many artists followed his way in terms of their choice of popular themes, aspects of celebrations or tattoos, and the capture of angles that justify the aesthetics of these manifestations. Solo and a self-contained artistic figure that has all the elements of its integration and immortality among the contemporary arts of Egypt, drawing from the ancient and spontaneously popular Pharaonic forms of a new art that tells the history of human art. It will continue long after our farewell to the great artist.