Visual arts in Egypt, between re-reading history and the influences of western culture

Document Type : Original Article

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Painting Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt

Abstract

The fields of artistic creativity are distinguished from other areas of life by that ability to express the state of civilized, knowledge, social and also economic societies, and it is historically proven that there is no single example indicating that a society has witnessed its arts sophistication and distinction and its creative products achieved a special personality and made a strong impact in periods The collapse and decline, and it is also proven that all the major transformations in the art movement and its concepts were mainly related to the general societal achievement, in the ancient Egyptian civilization the flourishing arts were associated with periods of political stability and prosperity, and in Islamic history the arts of architecture, applied arts and other arts fields flourished during periods of expansion and scientific and economic progress. In Europe, the art movement and its development accompanied the stages of growth and development beginning with the Renaissance.

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