Thursday, February 10, 2011
Curious and Frustated
Alright was looking for an Egyptian printmaker and I came across Maher Raef (1926-1999). I cannot find a single image of his work, and I am also rather curious about a term they used in the article blurb I did find on him. The man evidently made technical inovations in the processes of "cameo and intaglio." (http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/989/cu11.htm ) I mean I know that cameos are that profile Victorian jewelry thing, I did find a thing that talked about cameo proofing in terms of minting coins http://www.ehow.com/facts_5030440_cameo-proof.html?ref=fuel If anybody has a clue about this I would greatly appreciate it.
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I couldn't find anything at first. But eventually I ended at the Egyptian Ministry of Culture - Fine Arts website. They have a C.V. for him (http://www.fineart.gov.eg/Eng/CV/CV.asp?IDS=48) as well as 18 pictures of his work (http://www.fineart.gov.eg/eng/cv/Works.asp?Ids=48&whichpage=1&pagesize=6)
The information on the pictures is rather sparse. Aka no real info on medium at all. You can get some dimensions on some of it by clicking on the pictures as well as it saying "Metal," but not telling you if the final pieces were made of metal or if that was just the material of the matrix (if they're prints).
You can also glean a little info from inside Modern Egyptian Art 1910-2003 by Liliane Karnouk on the books Amazon page (http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Egyptian-1910-2003-Liliane-Karnouk/dp/9774248597) on pages 150 (pics) & 151 (biographical info).
Part of the difficulty probably comes from the fact that the spelling of his name isn't consistent Raef or Raief, which implies that both are just romantizations of his name in Arabic. And based on what I saw looking around this morning you may need to find someone who reads Arabic to be able to find out more of what the article you originally posted was talking about.
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