Sculpting Colour at the Louvre: Spain’s Painted Saints Step Out of Zurbarán’s Shadow
Twenty-three polychrome wood sculptures from Valladolid’s national museum, among them a complete life-size processional paso by Gregorio Fernández, open in the Hall Napoléon beside the Zurbarán retrospective. The pairing is the point.
Mary Cassatt at Orsay: A Centenary Tribute France Owed Her
The Musée d’Orsay opens the first major exhibition the French national museums have devoted to Mary Cassatt, a century after her death — and reads her career through the one word she claimed for herself: independent.
Zurbarán at the Louvre: The Painter of Silence Takes the Hall Napoléon
From 7 October the Louvre, with the National Gallery and the Art Institute of Chicago, stages a retrospective of Francisco de Zurbarán — and ends it, tellingly, with Manet, Picasso and Gris.
André Teymouri on Painting Men Who Don’t Exist
André Teymouri paints from a small set of fragments — a jawline glimpsed on the subway, a beard seen on the street, a stranger’s photo on Instagram — and lets them settle into a face that belongs to no one in particular. The men in his paintings are bearded, broad-shouldered, often shirtless, and almost always […]
Zero-One | An overview of the drawings by AbdolHossein Pazoki
Biography: Abdolhossein Pazouki / August 6, 1942 He was able to achieve alternating volumes and apply them in architecture by understanding the shape and condition of the concept of a plane surface. His teaching expertise has extended his perspectives over the years, allowing him to stay up with the contemporary trend. “Immigration” not only did […]
Tools of destruction; About Parisa Pakzamir’s Glitch Video Art
Parisa Pakzamir has used a sewing machine as a symbol of machine wear and an element of the industry in the video art of “Machine Dance in the Moonlight”. Using new digital art media, she has made it possible to convey her intended concept in the form of a short video. Digital tools for capturing […]
Limitlessness Exhibition at Aliha Gallery
Aliha Gallery has been hosting a group painting exhibition entitled “Limitlessness” since Friday, December 11, 2020. The short statement of this exhibition states:“We live in an age where constraints have become an integral part of our lived experience; Now, if we were to depict them with a negative letter prefix, what would be the result?” […]
On Mohammad Ali famori’s “Hypnotic Zone”: The Adventure of discoverer cornea
Mohammad Ali famori seeks to understand and define the existing hypnosis in the conscious and subconscious perusal of the individual under the symbol’s influence in the Hypnotic Zone. Based on his belief, contemporary human is under the daily media bombardment of images and symbols which affects his visual memory. By this effect, not only new symbols […]
Okhai Ojeikere; Sociological reflection of braided hair
One of the approaches that art sociologists have often tend to study the interrelationship between art and society is reflection’s approach. In the reflection approach, the impact of society on art is considered and the enthusiasts believe that the artwork reflects the events that occur in a community. Based on this approach, artworks reflect the […]
Interview with Nasrin Charkhat at Aliha Gallery
Nasrin Charkhat (born 1982 – Tehran) is a graduate of the Master’s degree in painting from the Tehran University. During her studies (undergraduate or postgraduate), she spent most of her time drawing, painting, and studying art related books. The keen interest in sketching and painting led her to the distinguished professor Mr. Mehrdad Khata’I’s classes. […]