Artist Walid Ebeid | A Contemporary Egyptian artist | ArtLiveAndBeauty

 

Artist Walid Ebeid's Paintings

Walid Ebeid a Cairo artist known for his dark and bleak depictions of Egyptian (and other) women's lives. The image's realistic expressionism provides particular weight to the timely social and gender concerns it addresses. Walid Ebeid was born in 1970 in Cairo but spent much of his youth and adolescence in Yemen. He began painting in oils when he was eight years old, and his father, an officer and Arabic instructor, encouraged him. Walid Ebeid graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Helwan, which is located near the ancient ruins of Memphis, in 1992. Walid Ebeid declined to work as an associate professor after graduation, preferring to remain an independent artist. "His realistic paintings question the conventions and traditions imposed by society on women and the underprivileged of all categories and socioeconomic strata," the critic says.