Plastic art is considered one of the arts that expresses the literal precision of the beauty of details. It can draw issues and topics in various forms and in all axes with a single painting that draws the world's attention towards amazement, and here we had to dialogue with one of the creators in the world of plastic art, "Kyrollos Sobhi" Who belongs to the Upper Egypt Artists Circle, was born in Beni Suef Governorate in 1993, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Historical Studies, Cairo University.
Tell me about the start of your journey with drawing?
Tell me about the start of your journey with drawing?
How was your interest in learning drawing and developing your talent?
When did you start pointing your pens towards the canonical drawing?
Does your talent conflict with your field of study?
How has history affected your artistic personality?
Art and history are two sides of the same coin. To what extent do you believe in this phrase?
Are you serving specific issues with your boards?
Which art school do you belong to?
What are the closest technical materials to your heart?
Tell me about the art exhibitions that you participated in?
What are your hopes for the future?
I remember that I started drawing when I was ten years old..One time I was drawing and after I finished I showed the drawing to my family for one of them to encourage..That time I remember it as the first time I paint, and then when I stop drawing..At that time the technology was not advanced and the images were available information such as right Now.
All I had at the time was a piece of paper, a pen and printed pictures to draw from..and because the religious pictures printed were available in abundance, they had the largest share of my drawings, and this has an effect on what will happen next.
How was your interest in learning drawing and developing your talent?
I did not go anywhere to teach drawing, and there was no one to teach me anything about the rules of drawing until the age of seventeen ... when I found my mother's encouragement and interest in order to develop my talent, and I met her in a day telling me that she spoke to a famous church painter in Cairo and he agreed to work and learn He has and I traveled to Cairo and I have one goal in front of me, "to learn painting."
When did you start pointing your pens towards the canonical drawing?
I spent about three years working in the field of church painting, and I traveled with the work team to several governorates in northern and southern Egypt .. until we traveled to Sudan to draw a church there.
After these years, I went out to work independently and started drawing small churches ... until an opportunity came to draw the cathedral in the city of Ras Sidr in South Sinai, and it took me about three and a half years to draw it..because I was working most of the time alone without a team.
Does your talent conflict with your field of study?
During this period, I was studying at the university, and the talent that became the field of work did not conflict with the study ... despite the distance between Cairo and South Sinai..On the contrary, I was fully energetic because I followed the path of my goal.
How has history affected your artistic personality?
The study of history has a great impact on my personality, especially when the intellectual and artistic consciousness began to form in me..I realized that the artist should study history in general and the history of art in particular in order to know and realize the experiences of his predecessors.
As one of the poets said ..
He who is not aware of the date in his chest ……. The sweetness of life did not come from its bitter
And from the awareness of history in his chest ... he added ages to his life
Art and history are two sides of the same coin. To what extent do you believe in this phrase?
I always say that art and history are two sides of the same coin..the artist must delve into both, so I did not stop at my BA and this year I began preparing for postgraduate studies in Greek and Roman history.
Besides history, I wanted to develop my level of drawing and study academically, so I joined the free studies course, painting department, at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zamalek.
Are you serving specific issues with your boards?
I serve mankind and humanity..From the memory of human history, I extract some events that deserve to be contemplated and take from them lessons that benefit us..with this I consider art not only aesthetic thing, but also as a teacher.
For example, most of the artists of the Renaissance and beyond ask them the ideas of their paintings from the classical period, i.e. the Greek and Roman civilizations..We find them painting Greek myths and the most important events of civilizations..In the religious section, we find them drawing stories and events of the Bible because the Church was the patron of the primary art at that time.
Personally, the issues that concern me most of all is the issue of injustice and justice ... between these two words summarize human history ... I do not deny that I hear voices in my ears when I read about a tragedy or war or any crime against humanity..I hear the voices of those who were wrongfully killed saying to me, do not forget you. Also just as we have forgotten history.
The ideas and issues that I am working on now and planning for them are many, including the painting “The Lady of Justice - Nadia Murad”, in which Nadia Murad (the Yazidi girl whose family and most of her village was massacred at the hands of ISIS) appears in the form of the Lady of Justice, raising the scale to demand justice and present the sword to take retribution.
And also a painting that I am working on now entitled "Hitler - a painting with the blood of peoples", through which he explained what Hitler did in terms of unforgivable crimes against humanity.
Which art school do you belong to?
In my paintings I tend to the academic and realist school ... and I find that academic study is the first step in the formation of the personality of the artist, and I do not think that it is good for an artist to jump into postmodern schools once without going through the academic stage and deepening in it for a period until his artistic awareness is formed. Then he begins his journey with a self-discovery that is not the gateway to art.
What are the closest technical materials to your heart?
And the material closest to my heart is oil..all of my paintings are in oil colors because they carry depth and rich in color and feeling..and I expect in the future to discover more about this great material.
Tell me about the art exhibitions that you participated in?
I participated in several group exhibitions, including the exhibition of the Faculty of Fine Arts for the Free Studies Department ... and the Art Vision exhibition, in which I won second place.
What are your hopes for the future?
I hope that the file of art in Egypt will be reconsidered, because the great civilizations and countries are based on several factors, including art as a basic pillar in the structure of this civilization.
I hope to succeed with the days in communicating my message To humanity and to add even a simple thing in human history.
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