An influential figure of modernism, Ibrahim El-Salahi is a great narrator, especially. His art combines painting and drawing inspired by motifs of African, Arab, and Islamic art contaminated with western ones. El-Salahi graduated at the Slade School of Art in London, then moved back to Sudan to teach at the College of Fine and Applied Arts, where he also founded the Khartoum Movement. The artist also took diplomatic posts for his country, but in 1975, he was unjustly incarcerated for six months. This experience deeply changed El-Salahi as well as his art.
