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Persian dreams
Reinterpretations of Ghajar art
Paintings by Rose Ghajar
August 9, 1999
The Iranian
Rose Ghajar has been painting for almost 50 years. "My high school
friend dragged me here to paint one of the houses and that's where I made
my first watercolor," she recalled, as we drove through the streets
of Georgetown. "One of the neighbors came out and gave us some lemonade.
I'd love to live here one day."
Rose will soon exhbit her latest creations not far from Gerogetown --
at The Artists Museum in Washington, DC (October 1-31). She lives in Mexico
where she is collaborating with a local artist, Santana, to recreate Ghajar-style
paintings with a modern flavor ... GO
TO FIRST PAINTING
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