Arab Critic and historian

Professor Afif Bahnasi

 Arabic Professionalism book – Beirut, 2001 

Dr. Nik Semenoff *

After his visit to  the website  www.sudanart.net

Has sent this comment dated Saturday, September 20, 2008

about the artworks of Dr. Ahmed Abdel Aal:-

Dear Dr. Ahmed Abdel Aal:

Thank you for your approval of my printmaking research.  My first question; have you ever tried the processes or techniques?  Did you find the information first on my university site or the more commercial one at ndiprintmaking.ca?  I have visited your site and can say I am
impressed.  I have not had much contact with artists in your part of the world and glad to see very competent work being done by artists like you.  My first observation was the representation of the human figure, which I knew is frowned upon by some members of the Islamic faith. I was aware of people pictured in art done in western areas of India, but never known of it in other areas. Yours are simple, yet complicated in execution. Great paintings.

I marvel at the confidence of your line drawings, which only comes with much practice and skill. The drawings are as good as I have seen anywhere, so congratulations on those pieces. Your involvement with designing logos and currency shows the extent of your knowledge, which
is farther than I ever achieved in my commercial art days.

I have received messages like yours and have visited many websites of artists work, but usually not as impressed as I am with your creativity.  What I found missing was the sizes of the work, as I could only estimate them from brush work and other effects known to artists. 
It is good to see that art can be a common language for all people on the planet.

Cheers

Nik Semenoff

              * Nik Semenoff is an outstanding researcher, master printmaker, teacher and inventor. he has invented a number of printmaking processes considered  revolutionary in particular “waterless lithography process” . his work has generated considerable interest in the international printmaking community.

This biographical information has been taken from university of Saskatchewan archives 2005.   

(Ahmed Abdel Aal is at the vanguard of giant personalities of contemporary Arabic expressionism declaring his absolute allegiance to his Islamic heritage with all that it embody of Gnostic horizons and self revelations. We are standing towards a thinker who paints rather than a painter who thinks.)

Arab Critic Omran El qaisi

El Kifah Al Arabi Newspaper

Beirut, October, 1999

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(In plastic art, I like Ahmed Abdel Aal, Shibrain, Uteibi, and Rashid Dyab, but I have a special appreciation for Ahmed Abdel Aal. He is a great painter, a literary writer and a wise man. In addition to that, he is still a pure Sudanese.)

Mr. Terri Kancton

Director, French Cultural Center, Khartoum

Akhbar El Yom Newspaper 20 February 2004

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From Sudan

(Schools of art will not rise unless through one person who possess special aptitudes, and Ahmed Abdel Aal is a steadfast scholar, and has a sufist vision and a great ability to theorize.)

Painter / Rashid Dyab

EL Hayat Newspaper, 21/8/2003

(The pioneer and leader of this experiment Dr. Ahmed Abdel Aal who was at the head of this school (the School of the one) and one of the first painters who had called for it ….. his creative achievement and marvelous artistic gems whether in Khartoum airport hall or the aesthetic touches which he illustrated in the emblem of Sudan T.V and in all the artistic projects which he implemented.)

Poet Mustafa Sanad

El sudan  EL Hadith Newspaper 12/12/1995

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The oldest writing about him was the following testimony when he was still a student in the faculty of Fine and Applied Arts.

  (This time I discovered a pure uniqueness which resemble, in the logic of aesthetics, eyes filled with a mixture of love, joy and delight as if everything is shadows of a morning sun at the early days of winter in our beloved country)

Excerpt from the introduction of professor Shibrain about the exhibition of Ahmed Abdel Aal, Khartoum, 1969

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(Since he was a student, Ahmed AbdelAal has been inspired and inspirer)