Visual Formulations to Portray Egyptian customs and traditions in the works of Orientalist artists

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Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Egyptian Russian University.

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Egypt was not at any time a rich country in its economic resources only, but Egypt's true richness and wealth was always in its distinctive human capabilities, and this is the reason for the success and excellence of the Egyptian in science, arts, literature, production, planning and the ability to face the times. It deals Visual Formulations to Portray values ​​of examples of the works of the orientalist photographers, who presented a picture of great ingenuity and beauty of the human body in the aspects of Egyptian social life, mixing imagination with reality, temptation with modesty, and fun with seriousness. The Artists dealt with topics related to the details of the human body in Egyptian social life, including its customs and traditions, and focused on them. They also cared about religious topics abundantly in their paintings, and this explains their interest in every religious scene, in addition to transmitting customs and traditions and caring for angles, scribes, and mystics, as this category was the mysterious part for the colonizer.

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