Ahmed Morsi

About

Ahmed Morsi is a contemporary Egyptian artist, poet, and art critic born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1930. He graduated with a degree in English Literature from the University of Alexandria in 1954 and studied drawing under Italian artist Silvio Bicchi. A key figure in the Alexandria School, a Surrealist-influenced group active in the 1940s, Morsi combined painting and Arabic poetry to explore themes of existence, isolation, dreams, and the subconscious. He traveled to Iraq in 1955-1957, engaging with the Baghdad Modern Art Group, and later co-founded the avant-garde magazine Galerie 68 in 1968 with Edwar al-Kharrat and others. Morsi authored the first Arabic monograph on Picasso in 1969 and translated Surrealist writings by Paul Éluard and Louis Aragon.[1][2][3][4][6]

Contemporary Egyptian Surrealism