Midday Tahajjud Painting

An Egyptian artist who believes the grandest thing in the universe is the human being and the grandest in the human being is the soul. Hence he is occupied in his works by capturing this soul in its various forms, manifestations, and contexts. His canvases always include individuals, particularly women, which represent to him a transparent container of the soul. Through the faces of women he captures the unique status of the soul, its emotions, values, problems, and deepest secrets. Magdy El Kafrawy is occupied by the classical composition of the canvas as his colors interact in harmony and balance. He is fond of playing with tones and shades of the same color to the extent one might view the one canvas is a display of a full color gamut of the same color. He also manipulated his favorite color material, Oil, to be malleable and change from its normal coarse nature to the smoothness of water colors. Shadow and light are the heroes in his works. They change by the change of the light entries and affect the tone of color until their sources virtually disappear and you feel it in the strength and fading of color. Decoration also has a prominent place in his works. If individuals are the soul of the canvas, the motifs are the geography of the soul. Its history, places, tales, and its dazzling world of abundant details which tell you a new story every time you look at it.