Currently, a wonderful exhibition of European arts is still ongoing at the Center of Arts a.k.a “Aisha Fahmy Palace.” The exhibition will continue until 30 November.
“A Selection of European Art” is the fifth edition of a series of exhibitions organized at the Center of Arts under the theme of “Our Museums’ Treasures.”
The fifth edition gives the chance to all art lovers to have direct contact with rare and outstanding artistic masterpieces. Each exhibit reflects the different ideologies and different artistic techniques.
Despite the COVID-19 outbreak, the exhibit is still witnessing a high number of visitors who are interested in having photos beside the priceless exhibits.
Dated back to different artistic eras, the exhibits depict various schools such as Barbizon, Umbrian, Orientalism, Romanticism, and Impressionism.
The amusing selections are capable of attracting visitors with their vivid colors, shining texture, and wonderful shadow and light game.
Many of the paintings can steal the visitors’ eyes and trap them in the heart of beautifully reflected details especially portraits.
Eugène Delacroix’s “Hercules and Antaeus” is one of the breathtaking paintings that depict the real legendary ancient Greek experience.
Another amusing painting is “Bakary” by A. Mantelet. The painting expresses the real feeling of a woman who spends a few minutes in silence. She looks at the baking table, the spread flour, and the loaf of bread. This ordinary daily scene is approached from another perspective.
This darkened mood of the painting gives the audience a sense of loneliness, brokenness, and pain.
Claude Monet’s “Seine at Argenteuil” is a beautiful painting that captures a calm and relaxing scene of the Seine river with its scattered ships.
One of the paintings that should be visited by every art lover is the historical scene replicated from “Thusnelda Procession of Germanicus” by Karl Theodor von Piolty.
It portrays the scene of the crowning of the new emperor and the dethroning of the previous one in one painting. It narrated various episodic historical events in one painting.
“Landscape and Figures” by Arnet Arentsz describes a real scene of people who argue beside the river with their realistic facial expressions.
Furthermore, the celebrated sculpture “The Thinker” by Francois Auguste Rene Rodin is one of the most significant exhibited pieces. The exhibited sculpture is one of the rare copies of the original statues.
The displayed masterpieces originally belong to three Egyptian museums: Mr. and Mrs. Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum, The Gezira Museum, and The Fine Arts Museum of Alexandria.
The exhibition gives the students of arts in Egypt a precious opportunity to have a real-life experience to communicate with the wonders of European Arts they used to read about and study.
Bridging between the artists and the students directly is a way to enhance the students’ understanding and knowledge.
Furthermore, building a bridge between the audience and arts will help in raising the people’s awareness towards arts and move arts experience from museums and students to common people. It will deeply contribute to raise cultural awareness of the common and improve the quality of artistic evaluation by the common.
The artistic organization enhanced by the architectural significance of Princess Aisha Fahmy Palace gives the audience extra enjoyment and moves them away from the aching blurry COVID-19 situation to a relaxing and easing journey with arts.
