Pablo

Picasso

Aziz Art

Hafez

Nami

Petgar

April15

ELLA PRAKASH

Jonathan NeweyAWARDS $175,000

HosseinBehzad

Aziz Anzabi

Director: Aziz AnzabiEditor and translator : Asra YaghoubiResearch: Zohreh Nazari

Contents:1. Seasons2. Hossein Behzad5. Picasso8. Competitions9. Nami Petgar12. ELLA PRAKASH14. Competitions15. Hafez18. Competitions19. Jonathan Newey20. David Truman22. Aziz Anzabi23. Competitions

http://www.aziz-anzabi.com

seasonsBetween the mass of the movement of the wheelsThe world moves and the sight of frit of occurrenceAnd it starts rainingFor the air is mostly cowardly whipped ,the wind hits the body of sickly treesThe dance of leaves and blossom brings unconsciousness from the moment It's like you have forgotten the movements of technology and ironAnd the puzzle that has lost its form in life in the century of technology for the human nature is dominantThe beauty of spring Is the promise for a new lifeAnd you are gone to a long dreamSweeter than childhood memoriesyou are once again unconscious To build the future againSpeech of director:Aziz Anzabi

Painting by :Farimah Haghirian

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Hossein Behzad(1894 – 13 October 1968) was a prominent painter from Tehran, Iran.He became internationally known and won many awards including the 'first class medal of the ministry of culture' from Iran in 1949 and the 'first class medal of international painting' from Miniapolis, USA in 1958. In 1968 Behzad was give an honorary profesorship by the College of Ornamental Arts, Behzad's works have been displayed across the world. To celebrate the millennium of Avicenna, in 1953 he held an exhibition at the Iran BastanMuseum. This caused a sensation and was seen by many international visitors. The paintings on show, which took ten years to complete, included the like of Ferdowsi and the Maedan Arch. The exhibition became particularly important to scholars of oriental studies. In an article for the Vatannewspaper of Istanbul, Professor Soheil Anwar wrote, " Behzad, this great artist does not belong only to Iran. He now belongs to the world."

Shortly after, and to much critical

acclaim, Behzad held an exhibition, which was sponsored by the French government, at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. The exhibition was opened by the French minister for culture on the 18th May 1955. The director of Islamic art at the Louvre Museum in Paris commented on the exhibition: " Behzad's name is reminiscent of the delicacy of Persian miniatures. The unique and powerful harmony of the designs and colors on Behzad's paintings takes us from the nuclear age to the past. This master artist adapts the Mongols and Safavid traditions to the manifestations of modern times and makes todays technical and artistic progress comply with the Timurid period miniature." 2

In 1956, fifty Behzad miniatures were put on display in the Library of Congress, Washington DC. As Behzad became a living master,he held exhibitions across the world including London, Prague, New York, Boston and Brussels, as well as in India and Japan.By 1968 Behzad had become ill and was sent twice to Europe by the Ministry of Culture. Despite this, Behzad died at 8:48pm on the 13th October 1968 at the age of 74. He was buried at the cemetery near EmamzadehAbdollah in Shahr-i Ray. In honorof the artist, the "BehzadMuseum" was founded. It is located in Tehran's Sa'd Abad Palace and holds a large collection of his works.

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Iran Tabriz

Picasso redirects here. For

other uses, see PicassoThis name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Ruiz and the second or maternal family name is Picasso.Pablo PicassoPortrait of Pablo Picasso, 1908-1909, anonymous photographer, Musée Picasso, Paris...jpgPablo Picasso, 1908–1909Born Pablo, Diego, José, Francisco de Paula, Juan Nepomuceno, Maria de los Remedios, Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad, Ruiz Picasso25 October 1881Málaga, SpainDied 8 April 1973 (aged 91)Mougins, FranceResting placeChâteau of Vauvenargues43.554142°N 5.604438°ENationality SpanishEducation José Ruiz y Blasco (father),Real Academia de Bellas Artesde San Fernando

Known for Painting, drawing, sculpture printmaking, ceramics, stage design, writingNotable work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)Guernica (1937)The Weeping Woman (1937)Movement Cubism, SurrealismSpouse(s)Olga Khokhlova(1918–55)

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Jacqueline Roque (1961–73)Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also knownas Pablo Picasso (/pɪˈkɑːsoʊ, -ˈkæsoʊ/;Spanish:[ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the Bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War.

Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are regarded as the three

artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.

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Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His work is often categorised into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period

(1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919).

Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.

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Nami PetgarNami Petgar was born in Tehran Iran 1945 -2009. Initially, his paintings followed the realistic traditions of his father, and master, Ali Asghar Petgar.

In 1965, he established his own painting and drawing academy in Tehran. He still continues to instruct a few select, and highly talented, individuals in his private classes.

Shortly after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the realistic styles of his landscapes tended away from the lyrical naturalization towards more abstract compositions and his figurative works diverted towards symbolic expressions symbolic expressions along oriental and lyrical moods. These characteristics features distinguish his oil paintings from western figurative styles.Nami has traveled extensively throughout his country and his works have been influenced by both the geographic diversity and the harmony of pure colors

evident in the country’s handicrafts. He also learnt a great deal about classical and modern European art from his travels to Rome, the Vatican, Florence and Paris in 1978. Despite these influences, Nami never lost his Persian experiential perspective and sensual perceptive style.

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He has drawn upon his experiences of lecturing at various universities and teaching at his own academy to express the validity of images of humanistic and spiritualistic vision as expressed through art and has published a number of articles on this subject.

Nami has also presented a number of television programs regarding the interpretation of the history of art, where he has explored the subject from novel perspectives.

Nami has participated in most of his country’s art exhibitions and his own private exhibitions continue to attract large numbers of visitors representing many different social strata. Some of the many significant exhibitions in which Nami has taken part include the following.

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ELLA PRAKASHElla born and brought up in Bahrain, She had a passion of art from childhoodand has dedicated herself in the artistic mission and challenge, the risk andrealities of the royal profession.Ella Prakash explains the meaning behind heresies: “When you start paintingmore importantly allow yourself to prepare as many as alterations of yourbase idea. Simply because once your mind has decided to steer your thoughts,you start to unravel emotions and strokes that you never thought you couldexpress.In regards to her colourful compositions she Mentions: ” My spirit is mirrored in mywork. I believe that every work of art must carry a message.”With the current abstract series, Ella challenges herself to unlearn the pattern ofcontrol she seeks in representation; thus, reinventing the language of anatomy, chiaroscuro, and storytelling.

Ella paintings are distinctive fortheir bold brush strokes and vibrant colours. Ella creates our own past rom fragments of reality in a process that combines the wilful aspects ofremembering and forgetting with the coincidental and unconscious. On a high level, she aims to illustrate this process that forms our innerlandscape Thus, a figure in motion , a lady moving out other shadows, can become a window into an alternate world, much like lived realitybecomes its alternate in remembered experience.

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They record on both micro- and macroscopic dimensions in her exploration with a newlanguage that frees her and welcomes viewers' contemplation. Ella signature is clearly legible in these works. In a very loose form, they showthe visual codes that she has developed in her painting oeuvre over the past years. The works are immediate, expressive and at the same time

The end result is a direct and spontaneous gesture on canvas that, in turn, is based on insight gained in previous work and which gives thesepaintings their inescapable explosiveness. No doubt, that her expression and passion for painting inspire viewers to see, feel, and enjoy inELLA PRAKASHtheir unique ways.

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RESIDENCY DATESSession I: August 17 - 28, 2015Session II: November 1 - 14, 2015REGISTRATION DEADLINEThursday, April 9, 2015Dacia Gallery invites artists to participate in an exciting Artist Residency program in New York City. Dacia's Artist Residency provides an academic program to inspire, refine and redefine the creative direction of artists in a painting intensive two-week program. Art classes will alternate between figurative painting and drawing, cityscape and plein air painting, the business of art, guest speakers and lecturers.

We will explore the contemporary art galleries of Chelsea and the Lower East Side and visit the great museums of New York. Additionally, an exhibition and opening reception will be held for the participating resident artists at Dacia Gallery. This is a wonderful opportunity to study, paint and exhibit in NYC.

For more information and to register please visit our website:www.daciagallery.com

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Khwāja Shams-ud-DīnMuhammad Hāfez-i Shīrāzī(Persian: خواجه شمس الدین محمد حافظ

‎شیرازی )‎, known by his pen name Hāfez ( ;‎حافظ also Hāfiz; 1325/26–1389/90), was a Persian poet who "laud[ed] the joys of love and wine [but] also targeted religious hypocrisy".His collected works are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature and are to be found in the homes of most people in Iran, who learn his poems by heart and use them as proverbs and sayings to this day. His life and poems have been the subject of much analysis, commentary and interpretation, influencing post-fourteenth century Persian writing more than any other author.Themes of his ghazals are the beloved, faith, and exposing hypocrisy. His influence in the lives of Persian speakers can be found in "Hafez readings" (fāl-e hāfez, Persian: فال حافظ‎‎)and the frequent use of his poems in Persian traditional music, visual art, and Persian calligraphy. His tomb is visited often.

Adaptations, imitations and translations of Hafez' poems exist in all major languages.

painting ( Mohammad tajvidi)

Hafez Tomb

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LegendsMany semi-miraculous mythical tales were woven around Hāfezafter his death. It is said that by listening to his father's recitations, Hāfez had accomplished the task of learning the Qur'an by heart at an early age (that is in fact the meaning of the word Hafez). At the same time, Hāfez is said to have known by heart the works of Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi), Saadi, Farid ud-Din, and Nizami.

According to one tradition, before meeting his patron Hajji Zayn al-Attar Hāfez had been working in a bakery, delivering bread to a wealthy quarter of the town.There, he first saw Shakh-e Nabat, a woman of great beauty, to whom some of his poems are addressed. Ravished by her beauty, but knowing that his love for her would not be requited, he allegedly held his first mystic vigil in his desire to realize this union. During this, he encountered a being of surpassing beauty who identified himself as an angel, and his further attempts at union became mystic; a pursuit of

spiritual union with the divine. A Western parallel is that of Dante and Beatrice.

At age 60, he is said to have begun a Chilla-nashini, a 40-day-and-night vigil by sitting in a circle which he had drawn for himself. On the 40th day, he once again met with Zaynal-Attar on what is known to be their fortieth anniversary and was offered a cup of wine. It was there where he is said to have attained "Cosmic Consciousness". Hāfezhints at this episode in one of his verses in which he advises the reader to attain "clarity of wine" by letting it "sit for 40 days".

Although Hafez hardly ever traveledoutside Shiraz, in one tale Tamerlane (Timur) angrily summoned Hāfez to account for one of his verses:

If that Shirazi Turk would take my heart in hand

I would remit Samarkand and Bukhārā for her black mole.Samarkand was Timur's capital and Bokhara was his kingdom's finest city. "With the blows of my lustrous sword", Timur complained, "I have subjugated most of the habitable globe...to embellish Samarkand and Bokhara, the seats of my government; and you would sell them for the black mole of some girl in Shiraz!" Hāfez, so the tale goes, bowed deeply and replied, "Alas, O Prince, it is this prodigality which is the cause of the misery in which you find me". So surprised and pleased was Timur with this response that he dismissed Hafez with handsome gifts

painting ( ali asghar tajvidi)

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LifeHafez was born in Shiraz, Iran.His parents were from Kazerun, Fars Province. Despite his profound effect on Persian life and culture and his enduring popularity and influence, few details of his life are known. Accounts of his early life rely upon traditional anecdotes. Early tazkiras (biographical sketches) mentioning Hafez are generally considered unreliable. At an early age he memorized the Quran and was given thetitle of Hafez, which he later utilized as his pen name. The preface of his Divān, in which his early life is discussed, was written by an unknown contemporary whose name may have been MoḥammadGolandām. Two of the most highly regarded modern editions of Hafez's Divān are compiled by Moḥammad Qazvini and QāsemḠani (495 ghazals) and by ParvizNatil Khanlari (486 ghazals).

Modern scholars generally agree that Hafez was born either in

1315 or 1317; following an account by Jami 1390 is considered the year in which he died. Hafez was supported by patronage from several successive local regimes: Shah Abu Ishaq, who came to power while Hafez was in his teens; Timur at the end of his life; and even the strict ruler Shah Mubariz ud-Din Muhammad (Mubariz Muzaffar). Though his work flourished most under the twenty-seven year reign of Jalalud-Din Shah Shuja (Shah Shuja), it is claimed Hāfez briefly fell out of favor with Shah Shuja for mocking inferior poets (Shah Shuja wrote poetry himself and may have taken the comments personally), forcing Hāfez to flee from Shiraz to Isfahan and Yazd, although no historical evidence of this is available. His mausoleum, Hāfezieh, is located in the Musalla Gardens of Shiraz.

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The Annual Open Exhibition 2015

This prestigious annual exhibition shows over 200 portraits by over 100 artists and celebrates the diversity of this fascinating genre.The selection of work on display, both from its members and the open submission, is a fascinating barometer of current trends and holds a mirror up to society by reflecting life in contemporary Britain.

Many of the works are available to Browse & Buy online now.

This year we have a number of interesting elements added to the Annual Exhibition format:

Celebrating 15 years of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters' permanent collection 'People's Portraits'. Usually housed at Girton College, Cambridge, a selection of the works will be on display during the Annual Exhibition.

Two previous Bulldog Bursary winners, Sarah Jane Moon and Emma Hopkins, have been invited back for a mini-residency, ‘Inside Portraits’. Taking place in the Learning Centre from 16 to 19 April, both artists will be on hand to talk about their work.

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Jonathan Newey is an award winning artist who lives and works in Reading, England. He comes from a strong artistic background and is believed to be the 4th generation artist in his family. He works in a variety of mediums and subjects but specialises in pencil drawings and paintings withacrylic. He is an active campaigner of environmental issues and a member of The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation. “I am lucky to have been brought up in an artistic environment and was taught to draw from an early age. As my confidence in my drawing ability grew I began to draw and paint wildlife and have progressed into producing realistic drawings and paintings of wildlife. I mainly use my own photographs taken in zoos and wildlife parks around the UK. I use the internet and printed material as reference and have developed a unique drawing and painting style concentrating on the animal as the main subject of the picture”. He has work in collections both in the UK and abroad and has

exhibited at a number of open exhibition venues including The Mall Galleries, London, West of England Academy, Bristol, Royal Society of Birmingham Artists and The Morphi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus.

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David TrumanBased in Lincolnshire, I became a full time artist in 2009, following a career path of many of the disciplines of Graphic Design working for Advertising Agencies and Art studio’s.

I specialise in bringing my subjects to life using watercolour and acrylic mix paintings andalso graphite drawings. As far as I can remember, I have always shown an interest in Art, andArt works, and encouraged at an early age by an Uncle, who was an excellent Equine Artist, it seemed a high possibility that I too would become an artist.

I attended Lincoln College of Art, where I studied Fine Art and History of Art. and then went on to graduate as a Graphic

Designer, Visualiser, and Illustrator.

I draw inspiration from everyday life, past and present, and have been described as an eclectic artist.

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peace nestle in my houseThe patterns that go throughout the gun make the gun seem at rest and this represents how peace has won over war. Peace is created when humans take the set of human rights seriously. The hands are obligated to spread peace to every one .This piece of work makes the watcher feel at peace and eased. The helmet that has now been abandoned by its own owner same as the gun seems nothing but a clothing on its own and doesn’t anymore make others feel at risk or danger from what might be coming next . The butterflies are another sign to show peace and calm . If you concentrate on this painting you can see that a gun and a war helmet are harmless on

their own without being in the wrong hands and don’t symbolise neither peace nor war.

Chosen by the judges for the competition of human rights!

By : Aziz Anzabi

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52nd ANNUAL BLUFF PARK ART SHOW

October 3, 2015 - HOOVER, ALABAMAApplication Deadline: May 1, 2015 Application Fee: $40 Late Application Deadline:May 15, 2015 (Additional $30 to apply)The Bluff Park Art Association consists of a diverse group of people, all volunteers, who are interested in promoting the arts. For 51 years, we have been bringing visual artists to the Hoover/Birmingham metropolitan area (2010 Census Birmingham-Hoover Metro Statistical Area - 1.82 million). The funds earned from this one-day event enable us to continually work toward our goal of promoting the Arts in the community, the schools and in the home.The object and purpose of the Bluff Park Art Association is to promote

or originate projects, coordinate activities with, or participate in, any organization or program which will further the purpose of the education and/or appreciation of Art on the part of the public, primarily in the Hoover/Birmingham metropolitan area of Alabama.The Bluff Park Art Association invites artists and craftsmen to apply to exhibit and sell their original work at the 52nd Annual Bluff Park Art Show.Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale at the National Western Stock ShowJanuary 9 - January 24, 2016 -Denver, COApplication Deadline:April 30, 2015 Application Fee: $25

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