Sep 9, 2015
Tahia Halim’s 96th Birthday
Today's doodle celebrates the 96th birthday of Egyptian
painter, Tahia Halim, who passed away in 2003. Halim was born in 1919,
and grew up inside the Egyptian Royal Palace of King Faoud. As a young
girl she fell in love with painting, and paused her formal education in
order to study with master painters in Egypt and France.
Halim painted many of her best known pieces in the 1960s, which depict the Nubian people of and culture of the Nile in Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan.
She was first sent there to document the process of building the Aswan High Dam
on the Nile, which flooded much of Nuba and forced the relocation of
over 100,000 Nubians. She was fascinated by the Nubian women and scenes
of old Nuba.
She tried to capture much of that world in her paintings
and drawings before it was changed irrecoverably by the new dam and
resulting Nasser Lake.
Many paintings since that trip depict the Nile, boats, and Nubian
village people—especially local women—going about their daily work.
Figures and gestures are reduced to simple, evocative forms that
encapsulate the beauty and vibrancy of the Southern Nile.
Despite the
poverty she found in Nuba, Halim's work reflects the rich colors and
authenticity of the Nubian people, their architecture and their daily
life. Her folkloric impressionist
style and signature brush strokes during that period captured the
unique and intangible characteristics of the Egyptian people, and
honored the ancient Egyptian spirit that is still living within people
in Nuba.
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