Canaan was a great painter, well acquainted with the rules of his profession. He passed from dimensionality, to perspective, to illusionary materialization, to space proportion, to surface texturing of element structures, using all sorts of colouring materials, until he reached a status, surpassing the very academicians, and attaining the so-called “academic realism”. Canaan produced hundreds of works that gave vent to his breathtaking talent, rich in diversity and contrast, and capable of reformulating surface aesthetics. This major experience of his came as a new response to expressive abstraction, which he had adored in the forties.

Sensation for Canaan is a state of Sufism, filled with the ecstasies of the moment, attaining its purpose, once it achieves the pleasure of the mind and the taste of knowledge. We are primarily grateful to Canaan’s ceaseless obstinacy to liberate art of its past condition and to spread intrepidity, adventure and ambition. He broke closed circuits. He relinquished fear.He held doors wide open for qualified talents to assume their role in the Egyptian art movement, getting ready to start the struggle in search of the future.