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Seda va Sima set designers felt disco lighting would enhance the presidential debate scene. Here is Ahamadinejad as Tony in Saturday Night Fever.
Memorable debate lines from that movie:
Tony: Oh fuck the future.
Fusco: No Tony, you can’t fuck the future. The future fucks you.”
“Shut Up!” by Bozorgmehr Hosseinipour. Mousavi has said, “The paint brush will never take the place of the communal struggle for freedom.” Better to have said, “The paint brush is part of the communal struggle for freedom.” This politician needs a good speechwriter to become more inspiring.
Compare this design with the Mousavi portico in the previous image. The architect/politician doesn’t seem to be trying too hard to suppress the memory of ancient Iran.
Mousavi is somewhat of a painter himself. Date of this painting is unknown ('70s?). The blobs are probably not balloons, but musical notes—Mousavi had a “musical note” period. I think the red note is supposed to be “standing out in the crowd.” Sterile, monotonous, flat, boring, and derivative. This artist should hang up his brush and try politics instead.
Balloon flying, like graffiti, is another anonymous way of publicizing an image or idea. I hope those balloons aren’t trash-bags. Wrong message! Green paint has been in high demand in Iran, so they say. I wonder about the demand for helium.
Here’s another Mousavi work done in 1972, titled “Queen’s Park.” There’s nothing about this painting to suggest recreation. Third Reich colors along with the broken lines feel like an architectural plan for a prison camp—fences, guard towers, sentries, the works.
This photograph captures the idea of popular support for Mousavi being overridden by the Ahamadinejad faction. “Whitewash” is not a Farsi idiom, but “rang kardan” is.
Pro-Mousavi graffiti. Rendered in print-shop colors, the images look like separations about to be run in an industrial printing press. As a result, the work has a “mass media” feel, even though it is humble graffiti.
But outside of Iran, strong feelings for and against shir o khorshid started a hot debate. In response, Iranian-Canadian artist Azadeh Azad created this inspiring image.
Where’s the guy with the green paint? This impactful but disheartening work is not graffiti, but suggests it.
Sand sculpture with “marg bar” comment. The use of sticks, pebbles or shells for alphabet dots proposes that the writing is raised (instead of dug), harmonizing the writing with the bas-relief victory hand.
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