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Mohamed El Masry (Egypt)

Colour plays a central role in Mohamed El Masry's paintings. The vivid colours define the shapes which compose together personages and motifs in his paintings. Masry tries to liberate himself from rules. As Vlaminck wrote the artist wished “to liberate nature, to free it from authority”. Colour is undoubtedly the means of expressing the feelings of the artist. In this sense Masry's paintings are linked to those masters obsessed by 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.

Mohamed El Masry (Egypt) has widely exhibited through different continents.

"I adopted in my works a style of reforming the reality and expressing it in different ways. I have produced many coloured works away from the classic style. In a lot of my works I tried to rebuild the structure of the characters. I have taken many sketches from many people and places I have been. But I have tried to express my opinion about the outer world trying to create my own world so I could live in it according to my own rules. Mainly I am concern about the shape, the colour and the composition. But overall, I try to create objects and personages living in their own environment.” (Mohamed El Masry, 2010)

Other works:

Untitled (2007), Oil on Canvas, 200 x 122 cm.	Untitled (2007), Oil on Canvas, 200 x 122 cm.	Untitled (2007), Oil on Canvas, 200 x 122 cm.	Untitled (2007), Oil on Canvas, 200 x 122 cm.	Untitled (2006), Oil on Canvas, 120 x 80 cm.	Untitled (2008), Oil on Canvas, 200 x 122 cm.	Untitled (2008), Oil on Canvas, 200 x 122 cm.
Untitled (2007), Oil on Canvas, 140 x 120 cm.	Untitled (2006), Oil on Canvas, 120 x 80 cm.	Untitled (2007), Oil on Canvas, 140 x 120 cm.	Untitled (2007), Oil on Canvas, 140 x 120 cm.	Untitled (2009), Oil on Canvas, 200 x 122 cm.	Untitled (2009), Oil on Canvas, 200 x 122 cm.	Untitled (2007), Oil on Canvas, 140 x 120 cm.