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Lost in the " Blue Mosque " Painting

Badri Valian

United States

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 72 W x 48 H x 5 D in

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Originally listed for $8,500

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

A few years ago , I traveled to Turkey/Istanbul to spend more time in ancient palaces, churchs and mosques to absorb the emotion and feeling of the fascinating Christianity and Islam both together and its combination and its influence of the modern architectural . I remember it was noon time and I was sited in the Blue Mosque and it was the pray time and people were walking around , washing their face , cleaning up , tiding up and being prepared for pray, all together.... I was so moved and fascinated by them . the image of human bodies and the gold shiny sun in the sky with the brilliant turquoise color made me committed to paint that image very soon. This painting belongs to the “ Life size painting “ category was done in 2017 and were been noticed by a lot of visitors came to my open house studio . ( “Lost in the Blue Mosque” is the only available from “ Life Size Project “. )

DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:

Acrylic on Canvas

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

72 W x 48 H x 5 D in

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Human body and its movements are the most intricate, sophisticated structures our eyes are exposed to. The fluidness and continuity of human movements along with the shapes the body takes during these movements, create a picture in our eyes full of smooth curves musically related to each other. This is what I try to capture in my work blending the body and its motions with music I hear and the rapture I feel in my mind . "Family Dreams" Project's statement : Today’s society is a conglomeration of children of yesterday. The children who witness the interactions and relations between their parents and other family members. The child’s memory is full of colors juxtaposing patterns shaped by the surrounding characters and deformed by their personalities. Reminiscing those memories bring tears to her eyes instead of smiles to her face. She finds her soul crushing under the pressure of pain, watching her mother’s detestable and odious treatment of her father. She sees her father desperately trying to bond the family together and to prevent its disintegration while the mother is ripping it apart with her unbearable sorrow, extreme anxieties, and hate. The mother’s shape is warped and distorted. The father is a collection of soft curves that do not belong to their rightful place and seem scattered and disoriented. The rest of the family fills gaps of the palette wherever the mother leaves them spaces to be and to breathe. And mother’s agitations force the children to swarm to any gaps they find in the palette where they can find some peace. Today, these children have grown to be adults. They see themselves as the harvest of what was sown years ago by those who touched their life. Recognizing the edicts of color and form, they try to portray on every palette, the story of a day of life, more sad than happy, long gone but still fresh in their mid and soul.

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