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Sawsan Amer

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Sawsan Amer
Born1937 (1937)
Cairo, Egypt
NationalityEgyptian
Occupation(s)Artist, Painter, Professor

Sawsan Amer (سوسن عامر; born 1937, in Cairo)[1] is an Egyptian painter and art educator, considered as a pioneer Egyptian woman artist.[2] She has been Director of the Art Research Unit at the Academy of the Arts and a professor on the faculty of Art Education at the College of Art Education.

Education and career

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Amer graduated from the College of Art Education, and has been Director of the Art Research Unit at the Academy of the Arts and a professor on the faculty of Art Education. She has authored a book and numerous articles on folk art,[3] which has also inspired other artist's work.[4] Furthermore, she was also noted for her paintings on glass and her collages,[5] combining traditional iconography with personal imagery.[6] Her work, inspired by traditional Arabic architecture,[7] is known for its rich color sense.[8]

Awards

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  • Cairo Salon, 1972[9]
  • Research Award from the Egyptian Committee on Public Art, 1991 [9]

Exhibitions

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References

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  1. ^ "Amer, Sawsan". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  2. ^ El saadi, Hoda (2007). Women Pioneers of Egyptian Art: Words and Images. Women and Memory forum.
  3. ^ "Sawsan Amer". The World's Women On-Line!. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  4. ^ Karnouk, Lilian (2005). Modern Egyptian art, 1910-2003. The American University in Cairo Press. p. 239.
  5. ^ a b Burnham, Anne Mullin (1994). "Reflections in Women's Eyes". Saudi Aramco World. Archived from the original on 3 July 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  6. ^ "The contemporary art of Arab women".
  7. ^ Aziza, Mohamed (1978). L'Image et l'Islam: l'image dans la société arabe contemporaine (in French). Albin Michel. p. 95.
  8. ^ Nashashibi, Salwa Mikdadi (1994). Forces of change: artists of the Arab world. International Council for Women in the Arts. p. 94.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g Nawar, Ahmed (January 2005). "Sawsan Amer". Al Hayat (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 15 June 2011.
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