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Beginning of the Drawing Journey
Nawar's journey begins early in the art of drawing, even before he joined the Faculty of Fine Arts
in Cairo in 1962, where we find him eager to follow the visuals and build the memory treasury with
drawings from his rural village, including human gatherings, animals, rural houses and faces. His
research endeavor in the art of drawing appears in his touching of different ways of observing,
forming, and expressing visuals; his drawings go through several paths, sometimes he draws in
an academic and scholarly manner following the classics of the art of drawing, and sometimes
he summarizes the visuals into broad structural touches by which he captures the basic features
of the form with the least touches of silhouette and light degrees and a few specific lines of the
character or the drawn element. He maximized the value of the shadow and placed it in large
areas that emphasize the shape and its progress. In a group of important drawings, which are the
drawings of the Juliba Troupe at the National Theater 1966, we find him drawing in the darkness
of the theater during the troupe's performance, observing the rush of the movement of the danc-
ers and musicians, capturing gestures and exploring their expressive capabilities. The drawing
here was directly from the eye to the hand, without times for revision and correction. He sits and
draws in the dark, relying on a skilled, trained hand, and a quick-observing eye that can pick up
and hold passing lines, track time, and monitor what is needed to express moving visual states.
Nawar begins early his integrated artworks in drawing as an independent artwork, such as his
artwork "The High Dam the Human Will" 1966, ink on particleboard, and his artworks during his
travels on foot to get to know Egypt from Abu Simbel in the south to Delta in the north and Salloum
in the west and Sinai in the north and east; he made another journey to get to know the world,
starting from Alexandria, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, East Jerusalem and then
return after four months to the homeland in 1966. Among the artworks of that period are "Siwa" in
1965, "Baghdad's Old Market", "Market of Al-Hamidiyah", and "Kuwait's Old Market" in 1966, ink
on particleboard. Nawar continued his interest in the art of drawing as an independent work of art,
all the way to his graduation project in 1967.
The Judgment Day
Nawar's study journey culminates in the most important drawing experience in his academic
career through his great graduation project, which he completed only with a pencil under the
title "The Judgment Day"; it represented a rare epic artwork in which the young artist at the time
adapted his skills to achieve the drama of the difficult compositive theme that he depicted with
early boldness as a student still completing his academic studies. This project has a story that we
tell briefly: while the student Ahmed Nawar was passing his studies in the first year in 1964, the
Faculty of Fine Arts organized a trip for the faculty students to Greece and Italy, in which Nawar
participated among thirty students of the faculty. In the Vatican, he stood stunned in front of the
The Judgment Day " Graduation Project “ , pencil , 976 × 275 m ، 1967
168
Nawar's journey begins early in the art of drawing, even before he joined the Faculty of Fine Arts
in Cairo in 1962, where we find him eager to follow the visuals and build the memory treasury with
drawings from his rural village, including human gatherings, animals, rural houses and faces. His
research endeavor in the art of drawing appears in his touching of different ways of observing,
forming, and expressing visuals; his drawings go through several paths, sometimes he draws in
an academic and scholarly manner following the classics of the art of drawing, and sometimes
he summarizes the visuals into broad structural touches by which he captures the basic features
of the form with the least touches of silhouette and light degrees and a few specific lines of the
character or the drawn element. He maximized the value of the shadow and placed it in large
areas that emphasize the shape and its progress. In a group of important drawings, which are the
drawings of the Juliba Troupe at the National Theater 1966, we find him drawing in the darkness
of the theater during the troupe's performance, observing the rush of the movement of the danc-
ers and musicians, capturing gestures and exploring their expressive capabilities. The drawing
here was directly from the eye to the hand, without times for revision and correction. He sits and
draws in the dark, relying on a skilled, trained hand, and a quick-observing eye that can pick up
and hold passing lines, track time, and monitor what is needed to express moving visual states.
Nawar begins early his integrated artworks in drawing as an independent artwork, such as his
artwork "The High Dam the Human Will" 1966, ink on particleboard, and his artworks during his
travels on foot to get to know Egypt from Abu Simbel in the south to Delta in the north and Salloum
in the west and Sinai in the north and east; he made another journey to get to know the world,
starting from Alexandria, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, East Jerusalem and then
return after four months to the homeland in 1966. Among the artworks of that period are "Siwa" in
1965, "Baghdad's Old Market", "Market of Al-Hamidiyah", and "Kuwait's Old Market" in 1966, ink
on particleboard. Nawar continued his interest in the art of drawing as an independent work of art,
all the way to his graduation project in 1967.
The Judgment Day
Nawar's study journey culminates in the most important drawing experience in his academic
career through his great graduation project, which he completed only with a pencil under the
title "The Judgment Day"; it represented a rare epic artwork in which the young artist at the time
adapted his skills to achieve the drama of the difficult compositive theme that he depicted with
early boldness as a student still completing his academic studies. This project has a story that we
tell briefly: while the student Ahmed Nawar was passing his studies in the first year in 1964, the
Faculty of Fine Arts organized a trip for the faculty students to Greece and Italy, in which Nawar
participated among thirty students of the faculty. In the Vatican, he stood stunned in front of the
The Judgment Day " Graduation Project “ , pencil , 976 × 275 m ، 1967
168
