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Those born in the 1970s are considered a pivotal generation that represents a hinged link between two important stages in the history of modern and contemporary Egyptian art and the bridge of communication between them. This generation has been contemporaneous with great artists from the renovators, those who influenced the fine art movement, who were ostensibly associated with the attitudes of European Renaissance artists and committed intrinsically to being connected to their society and identity as communicators of their causes. The dominant feature of the first generation and its pioneers was the emulation. In the 1970s, the celebration of abstract styles was dominant and they were competing with the younger generation of artists who were attracted by the desire for renewal -even if the strangeness feature prevails – on their works so they gave up the most solid artistic features, which is survival. The artist “Joseph El Duwairy” is one of the sons of the middle generation as he was born in 1977, and he graduated from the Faculty of Art Education at the dawn of the new millennium. If we wanted to monitor his career and the development of his artistic style and stages in a brief sentence, he is the perseverant artist in expressing himself and confirming the Egyptian identity by showing the philosophy of the deep interdependence between man and the place through daily habits, traditions and practices, and recording events from Egyptian reality with all its simplicity and spontaneity.