All is Violent, All is Bright: Traumatism Painting

Rambod started art at the age of 12 in a rather mysterious way. He woke up one day and just picked a paper and color pencils he had, without any previous thought. Ideas kept coming to him, and he would just draw effortlessly. His drawings followed paths of complicated and untidy patterns, even though a strange unity can be glimpsed in the final works. Everything started to shift slowly when he started his journey in Australia as a student where his work and mindset began to change. Rambod understood the goal he wanted to accomplish is to understand art as a whole to be able to start an artistic revolution. He began to think what art means to him and what goal he needs to pursue and that is when he started his extensive research on Arthur C. Danto’s as he stated: “Art is Dead” after Andy Warhol's infamous exhibition. In spite of Warhol's ideas and Danto's declaration of the death of art, Rambod’s approach in art is very different. Rambod disagrees with Danto as he believes art is still alive and we only need to follow teachers such as Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo Da Vinci, Max Ernst,… in which he would later develop his mythology by elaborating on their genius elements. Rambod thinks that living in a multicultural society would help him understand various philosophies, beliefs and ideas which will allow him to communicate with people around the world more effectively through his art in order to eventually achieve his revolutionary and artistic goal. This is why his excitement pushed him to learn different beliefs and philosophies. It has since encouraged him to read more, and to learn how to live with people from different backgrounds in a multicultural society. Sharing his daily life with people from different ethnics and cultures has helped Rambod to understand diversity . Therefore, his drawings are now more colorful, however, he still is self-conflicted and fearful of losing his cultural background as he has been far from his home, Iran.