<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>He\nstarted his artistic path by performing some illustration and design work while\nhe was an accounting student at the Addis Abeba School of Commerce. Ever since\nhe was a young child, the collection of paintings he saw at Mercato in Haji\nYosef’s house has stuck in his memory.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>When\nhe entered the second year of his course and started to question his inner\nfeelings, he realized that the accounting and secretary courses he was studying\ndid not satisfy his true needs. So he understood that he could not continue in\nthis situation. At that time, he was sent to Khartoum with three other young\nEthiopians in a scholarship program to study as a chartered accountant under\nthe first cultural agreement between the governments of Ethiopia and Sudan. He\nchose his own path and received a free education in an art school in the same\ncity rather than attending the education for which he was sent to Khartoum. He\nenrolled there and began studying under the renowned Sudanese painter and\nAfrican modernist Ibrahim El-Salahi.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>He\nhad to make his own decisions about the future once he got back from Khartoum.\nAlthough making this choice was difficult, he was adamant about it and fully\nconfident that he would find a way to support his family whether he won or\nlost. He purchased a bicycle and set out for the countryside to explore the\nnearby forest while earning money to write and type a relative’s communication\nat home. He started doing drawings and numerous watercolor paintings while\nthere.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p>When\nhis father used to see Abdurahman sketching pictures in the street, he would\ntell him to stop, saying: “If your neighbors witnessed you acting in this\nmanner on the streets, they would think you are insane. Please put an end to\nthe street art.” Abduraman’s paintings were eventually accepted, and some\ngalleries began purchasing them. He was motivated to meet Ale Felege, the\nfounder and head of the Addis Ababa School of Fine Arts, by these watercolor\npaintings.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>He\nbegan studying and teaching at the Addis Ababa School of Fine Arts in 1967.\nEmperor Haile Selassie I was due to pay a visit at the time, thus Mr. Alefelege\nassigned Abdurahman M. Sherif to paint the king’s portrait swiftly.\nAbdurahman then received further fortune when the king admired his charcoal\nmethod artwork. He received funding to study at the Kassel and Berlin art\nacademies in Federal Germany from 1968 to 1970, where he received instruction\nin modern painting and graphic art. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>Upon\nhis arrival home, Ms. Mary Tadese, the then-Assistant Minister of the previous Ministry\nof Education and Fine Arts, asked him to work at the former Haile Selassie I\nCraft School. In this sense, he claimed that having the opportunity to acquire\nart teaching techniques at Kassel Art Academy had aided in his ability to\ninstruct art at a similar institution. He later worked as the Addis Ababa\nSchool of Fine Arts’ director for over two decades and taught painting and\ngraphic arts there from 1975 to 1991. He also served as the graphics\ndepartment’s head and teacher for a number of years at the same institution.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>Abdurahman\nM. Sherif has taken part in numerous individual and group exhibitions both\ndomestically and internationally since 1971. He worked alongside six other\nEthiopian painters, all of whom were instructors at the Addis Ababa School of\nFine Arts, including himself, during the historic art exhibition held in 1971\nat the former Emperor Haile Selassie I Theatre, now the National Theatre of\nEthiopia. His highly developed visual creative skills have earned him several\naccolades both domestically and internationally. He is therefore considered as\none of Ethiopia’s most renowned and esteemed modern and contemporary artists.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p>
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