A women's world view
Iranian paintings at Shilpakala Academy
Ershad Kamol
THIRTY-six art works by seven Iranian female artists -- Mahvash Soheili, Marayam Mohseni, Nasrin Mahmoodi, Mojgan Hosseini, Fereshte Moghtader, Forouzan Farzam and Shahla Mahjoubi -- are on display at the National Art Gallery of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Using acrylic and mixed media, the artists have presented fauna and flora, interrelationship between humans and nature, emotions and others in their distinctive styles at the group exhibition. Mahvash Soheili in her five acrylic paintings has symbolically depicted sadness using different shades of blue, grey and black. Specialties of her works are using of casual colour brush of black on the background of either grey or burnt sienna. Another aspect of her work is the use of golden 'square' with delicate lines to represent hope in the midst of pathos. Four mixed media works of Marayam Mohseni are on display at the exhibition. Black, blue, burnt sienna, ash and red are the prominent colours in her works. Mohseni has drawn delicate lines to create the texture of 'fossil' on the burnt sienna to symbolically represent the barren earth. The Singer, If I Live Once More, The Impossible Flowers and others are the titles of Nasrin Mahmoodi's six paintings of acrylic medium. Using human figure and animal forms, she has depicted the serenity and harmony of the countryside. In the case of Mojgan Hosseini's mixed media works, female figures and symbolic colour have been used to represent the interrelationship between humans and nature. Interestingly Hosseini has used a mono-colour background on half of the canvas. On the rest of the acrylic paintings, she has used bright colours like golden, red and blue. Mother, Mother and Child, Mother and Daughter and Paventher are the titles of Fereshte Moghtader's canvases. Mother and Child is a series of three paintings. Portraying the figures of 'women' and 'womb and child' Moghtader has used bright colours such as red and blue. Forouzan Farzam's three acrylic paintings have been done with bright colours. She has used bold and colourful figures of the 'legends' to represent the inner spirit and purity of human souls. She has used pebbles, seashells and other elements to create the texture of fossil in her mixed media composition titled Untitled IV. Four mixed media works of Shahla Mahjoubi are on display, in which she has used painted copper plate and bright colours. In doing so, she has created the wonderful fauna and flora such as wild flowers in the hill tracts and others. Begun on July 6, the group exhibition will end on July 21.
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Works by Forouzan Farzam (L) and Shahla Mahjoubi |
