Modern Art Gallery in Cairo Opera House

 

        Generally Speaking, Art is about life, it is meant to evoke emotions and even understandings. Visiting art galleries is enjoyable as art galleries are spiritual places that inspire people through its painting. It gives chance to person’s imagination to see the paintings each on his own way. Moreover, the paintings in the gallery give different impressions according to the psychological condiotion of every person; sometimes the paintings help people to let their stress out or might give energy as well as it may cause fear, happiness and sometimes it may cause anger. One of these art galleries is the art gallery in Cairo Opera House. The art gallery in the opera house is a place that promotes fine art and modern art in Egypt. Furthermore, it reflects the history of Egypt  and the modern art through its paintings. The gallery is owned by the ministry of culture. First of all, it was built in 1932 in El Gomhoreya Street then it moved to Asr El Neel then moved to El Dokki Street before it finally stabilized in Cairo Opera House in 1992. To evaluate any art gallery and know whether it promotes fine art in Egypt or not there is two aspects must be evaluated which are the layout of the gallery and the paintings and painters in the gallery.

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        First of all, I am going to talk about the layout. Outside the gallery there is a small cafeteria and there is a cash desk where you can buy tickets to enter the art gallery; the cost of the ticket is 50 piaster for Egyptians and 5 Egyptian pounds for foreigners and it is for free for the fine art students. When I entered the gallery it was very quiet there was not a lot of noise as there was few visitors on this day walking around, the gallery was unclean unlike the other museums; most of the visitors ...

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