Boundaries and limitations
by
Pouya Afshar 03-Mar-2008
Pouya Afshar is born and raised in Tehran-Iran in 1984. He is a CalArts alumni in Film/Video's Character Animation department. Pouya is currently a graduate student at UCLA's Film/TV department focusing in Animation and Visual Effects as well as teaching creative thinking and visualization for CalArts' Community Arts Partnership. These drawings are a series of studies based on traditional Persian miniature through human figure exploring its boundaries and limitations. It is where two dimensional Persian miniature's delicacy of color and design meets the rough mass and depth of human figure and makes a human like landscape. Here is a
link to my animations on Youtube.
Miniatures
by Pasadena (not verified) on Fri Mar 07, 2008 06:13 PM PSTGreat work, I love these, Do you have more work ? if yes where can we see it ?
The human landscape really works
by yetanotherexmuslim on Tue Mar 04, 2008 04:16 PM PSTThis is very creative.
You should perhaps talk about what medium was used.
art
by calarts (not verified) on Tue Mar 04, 2008 03:52 PM PSTVery creative and nicely done. You have a really good sense of distortion. The bodies morph into themselves beautifully. I really want to c these animated or moved around
Kiki
by Niki Tehranchi on Tue Mar 04, 2008 01:19 PM PSTSure, it would be nice to elaborate beyond the first impression of it reminds me of "......" Also, it would be nice to elaborate on criticism beyond "Dali? Dali? He and Dali? Dude...Dali?" etc. making the poor guy feel like a douchebag for stating his opinion. Or maybe we are beyond help. Mahaa nemifahmim. Let's leave art to the elite.
Okay I will stop now or you will all think I am married to the guy! :o)
PS I LOVE that name, it reminds me...Just kidding!
Mr behrang...for sure he is
by n.zanincanadai1 (not verified) on Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:26 PM PSTMr behrang...for sure he is talented. The peices are amazing. But I think Dali is a stretch. You are right though.
to n.zanin canadai
by behrang barzin on Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:47 AM PSTI guess other people wrote what I was gonne say...but let me
elaborate a little more to clearup any confusion...when "I"
look at his work it reminds "me" of Dali’s work.
Each person might have his/her own interpretation as he/she looks at a
certain art piece. When NazaninCanada
looks at Mr. Afshars work it may not reminds her of Dali’s work and that’s
fine. I think this is a wrong argument to begin with because I believe every
artist should be appreciated for his own style and work not because his/her
work resembles someone famous or not… I
think this is good art and I believe this guy is a talented artists and I think
majority of people who look at his art agree with me…that’s all I have to say
human landscape
by hp (not verified) on Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:16 AM PSTOf course the distortion of the figure and mass in these pieces are disturbing for some reason, but thats what makes good art work, to bring out feelings out of us. There are beautifully rendered and very amusing to look at. Love the mixture of miniature with figure and as it says in the description, it makes a human landscape from the miniature world. good work
Sure we can all be reminded
by n.zanincanadai1 (not verified) on Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:02 AM PSTSure we can all be reminded of things. You are right. It's funny. Actually, I was reading Dilbert yesterday and some how, no clue why, it reminded me Snoop.
nice or substantiative
by kiki (not verified) on Tue Mar 04, 2008 09:29 AM PSTI agree with Niki up to a point, since an artwork can be viewed objectively and/or subjectively. However, without elaborating on reasons why a certain artwork reminds you of some famous artist, it might just appear as if giving complementents, for the sake of being nice.
It REMINDS him of Dali
by Niki Tehranchi on Tue Mar 04, 2008 08:30 AM PSTand why shouldn't it? It could remind him of Monet, Aghdashloo, or Dilbert cartoons for that matter. It's his point of reference. No one is trying to take the crown away from Dali and proclaim Mr. Afhsar king of all surrealist paintings from now on. The beauty of art is that it means something different for each person who sees it, whether he/she is a PhD in art history, a housewife in her 50s, or a 5 year old kid who likes shiny things. That's when artists truly achieve success, IMHO.
behrang barzin: Salvadore
by n.zanincanadai on Tue Mar 04, 2008 07:00 AM PSTbehrang barzin: Salvadore Dali? Do you even know anything about Dali? How in the world could you compare this to Dali? Dali? The same Dali that all of us know???? I went to an exhibition of his art work and a sale of his prints in UCLA and touched a few of his works. DALI? this and Dali? Dude....DALI??????? AKHEH COME THE HECK ON. This is a good start but very primitive. I wish the artist much luck but freaking DALI???? mano sare kar gozashti? oh ok. Thanks for clearing it up.
PS...avaleh sobi...get a life captcha challenge.
ugly?
by N (not verified) on Tue Mar 04, 2008 06:57 AM PSTi love the fact that suddenly flowers and clouds and.... miniatures appear in your work !
and you know what...be happy that some people say these are ugly...!
cuase in my opinion,your thought is beautiful !!!
good luck .
brilliant
by Anonymous77 (not verified) on Tue Mar 04, 2008 06:55 AM PSTabout time someone did something with these and so well too.
amateurish
by collector (not verified) on Tue Mar 04, 2008 05:33 AM PSTit's tacky. have the balls not to resort to nude it's an amateurish gaudy collage art with no real thought behind it.
bacon
by Scholar (not verified) on Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:50 AM PSTBeautiful work, more like early works of francis bacon
Kurthestaan
by Sheikh (not verified) on Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:50 AM PSTA daareh doori del bi gharaara,
Nazanm chon pet blem mn chand tom khos awet!!( I cant explain how much i love you)
creative
by Anonymjjhous (not verified) on Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:25 AM PSTThey are different for sure but pretty creative and nicely rendered. Kinds weird but amazingly beautiful. Good work
It looks different, and I
by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon Mar 03, 2008 09:38 PM PSTIt looks different, and I like that aspect, however, I don't find beauty in it.
He is talented, but it's ugly
by art student (not verified) on Mon Mar 03, 2008 07:36 PM PSTHe is talented,
But Dali?
I don't think so.
These painting remind me of naked dead bodies.
He is talented, but it's ugly
by Art student (not verified) on Mon Mar 03, 2008 07:31 PM PSTIt reminds me of naked dead bodies.
Not interesting at all.
Miniatures
by Jamsheeeed (not verified) on Mon Mar 03, 2008 05:59 PM PSTThese paintings are pretty nice, and they remind me of well known surreal artists such as Dali and Bacon as well, good job keep it up
Iranian Salvador Dali!!!
by behrang barzin on Mon Mar 03, 2008 05:44 PM PSTwow this guy Pouya is a very talented artist, his work
reminds me of Dali’s work... but I heard he needs great deal of improvement in
soccer and ping pong ;)
Nice job :)
by AA (not verified) on Mon Mar 03, 2008 04:34 PM PSTNice job :)
Eastern Surrealism
by ramintork on Mon Mar 03, 2008 03:36 PM PSTIf I'm not mistaken there is a degree of Surrealism in this series of works.
I enjoyed it.
I also enjoyed your Youtube videos, they looked very impressive.