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Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
About Gazbia Sirry
- Gazbia Sirry (Arabic: ?????? ????) (born 1925) is an Egyptian painter. Born in Cairo, Gazbia Sirry studied fine arts and became a professor in the painting department of the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University.
- She was also a professor at the American University in Cairo.
- She has had more than 50 personal exhibitions, official purchases by international museums, international prizes, scholarships and university chairs. Her dissertation traces Egypt's politic history.
- The paintings of Sirry capture the relationship between feminist consciousness and advocacy of women, history, fascism, and Islamic futurism.
- Because of their eclecticism and heterogeneity of modern Egypt, Sirry's paintings were known.
- Her work is dominated by women in unmistakable pose of power stemming from female unity, performing roles in the public and private spheres.
- Her earlier work deals with polygamy and strengthening the fertility and reproductive power of women.
- In the late 1950s, Sirry made stylistic and thematic changes to reflect the grim mood created by discontent with the crackdown on dissent and curtailment of political freedom across the country.
- Through her work in the mid 1960s, when it becomes highly abstract, these dramatic changes are apparent.
- The full abstraction was replaced in the early 1970s by the reappearance of human forms, but the dark paintings represent the fears of Sirry about the fortunes of women's emancipation.
- The dominant bright colors and pyramidal shapes of her paintings show the national pride and enthusiasm following the Ramadan/Yom Kippur War of 1973 in the later part of the 1970s.
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