Boundaries and limitations

Modern miniatures

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.
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Miniatures

by Pasadena (not verified) on

Great work, I love these, Do you have more work ? if yes where can we see it ?


yetanotherexmuslim

The human landscape really works

by yetanotherexmuslim on

This is very creative.

You should perhaps talk about what medium was used.


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art

by calarts (not verified) on

Very 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


Niki Tehranchi

Kiki

by Niki Tehranchi on

Sure, 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!


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Mr behrang...for sure he is

by n.zanincanadai1 (not verified) on

Mr behrang...for sure he is talented. The peices are amazing. But I think Dali is a stretch. You are right though.


behrang barzin

to n.zanin canadai

by behrang barzin on

I 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


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human landscape

by hp (not verified) on

Of 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


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Sure we can all be reminded

by n.zanincanadai1 (not verified) on

Sure 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.


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nice or substantiative

by kiki (not verified) on

I 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.


Niki Tehranchi

It REMINDS him of Dali

by Niki Tehranchi on

and 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.


n.zanincanadai

behrang barzin: Salvadore

by n.zanincanadai on

behrang 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.


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ugly?

by N (not verified) on

i 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 .


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brilliant

by Anonymous77 (not verified) on

about time someone did something with these and so well too.


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amateurish

by collector (not verified) on

it's tacky. have the balls not to resort to nude it's an amateurish gaudy collage art with no real thought behind it.


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bacon

by Scholar (not verified) on

Beautiful work, more like early works of francis bacon


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Kurthestaan

by Sheikh (not verified) on

A daareh doori del bi gharaara,
Nazanm chon pet blem mn chand tom khos awet!!( I cant explain how much i love you)


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creative

by Anonymjjhous (not verified) on

They are different for sure but pretty creative and nicely rendered. Kinds weird but amazingly beautiful. Good work


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It looks different, and I

by Anonymous (not verified) on

It looks different, and I like that aspect, however, I don't find beauty in it.


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He is talented, but it's ugly

by art student (not verified) on

He is talented,
But Dali?
I don't think so.
These painting remind me of naked dead bodies.


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He is talented, but it's ugly

by Art student (not verified) on

It reminds me of naked dead bodies.
Not interesting at all.


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Miniatures

by Jamsheeeed (not verified) on

These 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


behrang barzin

Iranian Salvador Dali!!!

by behrang barzin on

wow 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 ;)


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Nice job :)

by AA (not verified) on

Nice job :)


ramintork

Eastern Surrealism

by ramintork on

If 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.