About: Habib Gorgi

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Habib Gorgi (1892–1965) was an artist of the turn of the century pioneer generation of Egyptian modern art. He graduated from Teacher Training School then received a scholarship to England in 1920 to study pedagogic methods of art teaching, and watercolors. An early pioneer of art education, and the author of the first Arabic book on the subject in 1936. He taught graduates of the Fine and Applied Arts Colleges to prepare them to become arts teachers and get their National Teacher's Certificate. He established the Art Advocates Society in 1928 for artist investigating Egyptian identity through art, and watercolors in particular. His Spontaneous Sculpture School and the Textile Drawing School was continued by son-in-law Ramses Wissa Wassef in Harraneya. He represented Egypt in conferences o

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  • Habib Gorgi (1892–1965) was an artist of the turn of the century pioneer generation of Egyptian modern art. He graduated from Teacher Training School then received a scholarship to England in 1920 to study pedagogic methods of art teaching, and watercolors. An early pioneer of art education, and the author of the first Arabic book on the subject in 1936. He taught graduates of the Fine and Applied Arts Colleges to prepare them to become arts teachers and get their National Teacher's Certificate. He established the Art Advocates Society in 1928 for artist investigating Egyptian identity through art, and watercolors in particular. His Spontaneous Sculpture School and the Textile Drawing School was continued by son-in-law Ramses Wissa Wassef in Harraneya. He represented Egypt in conferences on art teaching in Paris from 1936, and his educational experiments became an inspiration to major international writers, including , in his book The Art of the Child. During his scholarship period in England, he specialized in watercolours. Habib Georghe was interested in the aesthetics of Egyptian art, and adopted this through his call for painting Egyptian landscapes, and through his establishing the Folk Art School, where he fostered a number of spontaneous artists, including Sayeda Massak, Samira Hosny, Yehya Bu Seri', Bodour Girgis, who were all talented in environmental sculpture, in the period from 1938 to 1951. (en)
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  • Habib Gorgi (1892–1965) was an artist of the turn of the century pioneer generation of Egyptian modern art. He graduated from Teacher Training School then received a scholarship to England in 1920 to study pedagogic methods of art teaching, and watercolors. An early pioneer of art education, and the author of the first Arabic book on the subject in 1936. He taught graduates of the Fine and Applied Arts Colleges to prepare them to become arts teachers and get their National Teacher's Certificate. He established the Art Advocates Society in 1928 for artist investigating Egyptian identity through art, and watercolors in particular. His Spontaneous Sculpture School and the Textile Drawing School was continued by son-in-law Ramses Wissa Wassef in Harraneya. He represented Egypt in conferences o (en)
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