Eastern Brushstroke News Today

Moment to establish the huge variety of modernism within iran in the 20th century. iran positioned itself firmly on the global stage — so we had artists that moved westward and looked, and reinvented, but we also had artists who looked eastward. and who more beautiful and more moving than sohrab sepehri, whos known as a poet, as well as a painter? sohrab studied for two years injapan in the early �*60s, and also in china. and he came back to iran via india, where he studied there as well —...

The story differently. and its great to have this moment to establish the huge variety of modernism within iran in the 20th century. iran positioned itself firmly on the global stage — so we had artists that moved westward and looked, and reinvented, but we also had artists who looked eastward. and who more beautiful and more moving than sohrab sepehri, whos known as a poet, as well as a painter? sohrab studied for two years injapan in the early �*60s, and also in china. and he came back to ...

We see that wonderful eastern brushstroke in one of these early renditions of the trees that he became so well known for later on in his career. we can also look at the work of bahman mohasses. he was interested not in the hero, but in the antihero. and his figures often have a demonic feel and resonate with different power. this painting is really great — its from the mid �*60s, and it shows a couple on a beach. of course, we all know this had become very fashionable in the period, in the �...

Modernism was something that was invented in the west, and then exported like a good around the world. whereas, in fact, in the kind of transnational modernisms that are being explored now, we re—understand the story differently. and its great to have this moment to establish the huge variety of modernism within iran in the 20th century. iran positioned itself firmly on the global stage — so we had artists that moved westward and looked, and reinvented, but we also look had artists who looke...