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Zaccaria Zeini Interior Paintings

Egyptian, 1932-1993
Zaccaria El Zeini (1932 - 1993) was raised in the popular district of Sayyida Zienab in Old Cairo and graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in the city’s capital, where his graduation project revolved around the birth of the female saint, the namesake of the area where he was born. He was a postwar Modernist who received his formal training in painting in Venice, graduating from the Academy of Pravana, and it was in Italy that he gained his fascination with Greco-Roman architecture, which would develop into a preferred subject in his painting. He later became a professor at his alma mater, the Faculty of Fine Arts, and ended his career as head of its painting department. El Zeini’s oeuvre spans predominantly expressionist and abstract-figurative painting styles, with a strong proclivity towards using different personal symbols in his work and throughout several periods. These symbols connote each of the three wives he had during his life, and he cryptically places these symbols as markers throughout his paintings, whether discreetly or overtly. His formative upbringing in the Sayyida Zeinab district remained one of the most significant influences on his trajectory as an artist, having been exposed to since birth the popular celebrations and festivities surrounding the birth of the granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammed. The first period was predicated on the quintessentially Egyptian practices and folk rituals and rites of ‘el moulid’ and ‘el zar.’ His work has always been distinguished for portraying the human figure (face and torso) enclosed in a geometric shape of either a square or a rectangle, often in a prominent contrasting color like green or red against backgrounds in predominantly neutral and earthy textured tones. Despite this rigid, enclosed portrayal, the viewer still feels the sympathy that the painter emotes toward these human beings living or oftentimes trapped, in this constrained and confined space in the reductionist form of a house, door, or window. El Zeini used this form of representation as a commentary on the impacts of societal constraints, norms, prejudices, and discrimination. It was through these ‘el moulid’ and ‘el zar’ periods that El Zeini was able to enrich his imagination and that of his audience and find refuge in it, thus transmitting to us his message in a poignant and enduring manner. In some early works when he concentrated on the plight of the woman, and constantly featured women enclosed by such simplified bars, windows, or doors, in his basic geometric enclosures, in doing so he was criticizing the passivity of women and her role vis-à-vis her society. In his second period, El Zeini devoted himself to the artistic study of the concept of garbage and waste, ‘el zibala.’ El Zeini emphasized the salient topic of waste management on the streets of Cairo, he accomplished this by often dividing the painting in two and depicting abstract forms of detritus, debris, and discarded waste throughout the canvas and on either side of the divide.
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Artist: Zaccaria Zeini
"Matrix I" Abstract Oil Painting 18" x 24" in (1987) by Zaccaria Zeini
"Matrix I" Abstract Oil Painting 18" x 24" in (1987) by Zaccaria Zeini

"Matrix I" Abstract Oil Painting 18" x 24" in (1987) by Zaccaria Zeini

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"Matrix I" Abstract Oil Painting 18" x 24" in (1987) by Zaccaria Zeini Medium: oil on carton Signed and dated Comes in old original frame Zaccaria El Zeini (1932 - 1993) was rais...

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"Debris III" Abstract Oil Painting 28" x 22" in (1983) by Zaccaria Zeini
"Debris III" Abstract Oil Painting 28" x 22" in (1983) by Zaccaria Zeini

"Debris III" Abstract Oil Painting 28" x 22" in (1983) by Zaccaria Zeini

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"Debris III" Abstract Oil Painting 28" x 22" in (1983) by Zaccaria Zeini Medium: oil on canvas Signed and dated Comes in old original frame Zaccaria El Zeini (1932 - 1993) was ra...

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20th Century Zaccaria Zeini Interior Paintings

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"Kiln" Abstract Oil Painting 26" x 20" inch (1981) by Zaccaria Zeini
"Kiln" Abstract Oil Painting 26" x 20" inch (1981) by Zaccaria Zeini

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