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Thank you all for your kind

Thank you all for your kind and encouraging comments. No art work is ever complete without being shared. 

Thanks Ramin. I am looking

Thanks Ramin. I am looking forward to some of your work. A

Dear Afsoon

It is always a pleasure to see your work.

So delightful indeed... ♥ ♥ ♥

Dear Afsoon, Your fairytales and dreams must be so beautiful that your artwork is so delightful! Many thanks for sharing... :)

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I like all the background artwork! Very artistic and appealing!

دستهایم را در باغچه میکارم، سبز خواهم شد، میدانم.

دستهایم را در باغچه میکارم
سبز خواهم شد ، میدانم ، میدانم ، میدانم
و پرستوها در گودی انگشتان جوهریم
تخم خواهند گذاشت

Dear Afsoon:

Your art is so beautiful! Somehow they reminds me of Andy Warhol's works, with a very unique, special, and meaningful Iranian touch. I loved looking at every one of them. My favorite is No. 8. Thank you for the nostalgic art.

Great compositions

I love them all. It's easy to be grabbed by those iconic images. But the hard part is turn them into works of art. Really beautifully done. My favorites:

Forough:
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Takhti:
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Nasserdin Shah:
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Stalin:
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I picked the green Forough for the front-page image to match the current movement in Iran.

Asfaoon jan, thanks for your explanantion

Dear Afsoon, thanks for writing about your vision. I guess, since for me the people that your artwork is about were never fairytale, I come from a different place. Most people in your series had difficult lives and were under harsh criticism at one time or another or maybe at most times. Take case of Forough who was a divorcee at the time that there were not so many divorces and she also wrote about Taboo subjects.

Some of the people had a bit more fairytale life which makes me think of Googoosh since she started as a young girl singing for adults in cafes and ended up being a super star. So Gogoosh maybe one that you can really call fairytale icon.

The concept of this series

The concept of this series goes back to the ending of any fairy tales yo read as a child: AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER. All I want to do is to question that line. Obviously, Forough or indeed any of the other icons ARE/WERE real people whose lives had a huge impact(Positive or negative) on the lives of many others. Iconic people reach a point were the reality and the image can change place and become each other. My question was these icons started a life that could be like a fairytale but did they live happily ever after?

I hope I managed to explain myself. This is a hard thing to do in a paragraph or two but at the end the art needs to speak to the viewer without the words of the artist.

Thank you for taking time to read and look at my work.

Afsoon 

Dear Afsoon, I am confused. Are you calling Forough fairytale?

Afsoon jan, in the text of your blog, you write:"As a child I was told many fairy tales of beautiful princesses and brave heroes. They faced life's challenges and always emerged happy and victorious. I believed in fairy tales. My chosen icons lived expectantly. hoping, wishing, dreaming. They were loved and admired and they fulfilled many of their hopes and dreams. But what happened to them in the end? Did these fairytale icons really live happily ever after?" But then in you artwork, I see Forough, Gogoosh, Mossadegh and other real people. I hope you are not calling icons like Forough a fairytale icon. People like Forough were no fairy tale. Their life story is there for us to read. I am not going to continue discussing why Forough is not fairytale since I am not sure that is what you meant. May you clarify?

Nice art work.

Everything is sacred

Thank you

Afsoon for sharing your work.
Cheers,
Sean