Samir Fouad’s art is derived from various streams: growing up in post-war Heliopolis gave him a cosmopolitan dimension and his continuous search into the human existence and in the correlation between music and visual arts gives him a distinctive artistic vision which is conveyed in his main concern with the juxtaposing of arrest and movement and the representation of the passing of time in his work. His artistic content is predominantly expressionist and his visual language draws from the heritage of painting to the horizons of modernism, but his state of mind and mood is thoroughly Egyptian, selecting the subjects of his paintings from the culture and soil of his motherland.

About the Artist

Samir Fouad was born in Heliopolis, Cairo, in 1944 in an art-loving family, his father was an Islamic ornamentation artist, and his elder brother, who was a pilot in the Air Force, an amateur artist, and a violin- player. He started practicing art at an early age and learned from his brother, they were both painting in watercolors and playing the violin. Although he wanted to pursue a career in Art he went instead, under pressure from his family, to the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, where he graduated with a B.Sc. in Communication Engineering in 1966.