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Contents
1. Directors speech-Nim Yushij
2. Remedios Varo
5. Mars social
8. Sam Peacock
9. Reza Abbasi
15. Competition
16. Martin J Leighton
17. Competition
18.Aziz Anzabi
19.Constantin Brncui
23. Tabriz style

Director: Aziz Anzabi

Editor and translator : Asra
Yaghoubi
Research: Zohreh Nazari

http://www.aziz-anzabi.com

In The Cold Winter Night

In the cold winter night
The furnace of the sun too
Burns not like the hot
hearth of my lamp, And no
lamp is luminous as mine

Nim Yushij
Persian: November
12, 1895 January 6, 1960
also called Nim , born Ali
Esfandiri was a contemporary
Tabarian and Persian poet who
started the sher-e now
(", new poetry") also
known as sher-e nimaa'i
(", Nimaic poetry")
trend in Iran. He is considered
as the father of modern Persian
poetry.
He died of pneumonia in
Shemiran, in the northern part
of Tehran and was buried in his
native village of Yush, Nur
County, Mazandaran, as he had
willed.

The white dress of Winter is

closed.
The young and vibrant Spring
replaces the Winter.
Spring travels so fast in your
house that you don't even
realise,
when your thoughts are
frozen and trapped by the
Winters claws.
The happiness of the season
flows through the veins of
life.
The trees have woken up ,
The blossoms are greeting
you,
Your Spring be victorious and
blissful
Aziz Anzabi

Remedios Varo
Uranga (December 16, 1908 move to Paris with Pret
October 8, 1963) was a
ensured that she would never
Spanish-Mexican parabe able to return to Franco's
surrealist painter and
Spain. She was forced into exile
anarchist.
from Paris during the German
She was born Mara de los
occupation of France and moved
Remedios Alicia Rodrigo Varo y to Mexico City at the end of
Uranga in Angls, a small town 1941. She died at the height of
in the province of Girona, Spain her career from a heart attack in
in 1908.[1] Her birth helped her Mexico City in 1963
mother get over the death of
another daughter, which is the
reason behind the name. In
1924 she studied at the Real
Academia de Bellas Artes de San
Fernando, Madrid. During
the Spanish Civil War she fled to
Paris where she was greatly
influenced by the surrealist
movement. She met her second
husband (after her death it was
discovered that she had never
divorced her first husband,
painter Gerardo Lizarraga), the
French surrealist poet Benjamin
Pret, in Barcelona. There she
was a member of the art
group Logicophobiste.Due to
her Republican ties, her 1937
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Early life
promising to name her first
Varos father,
Rodrigo Varo y Zajalvo,
daughter after the saint.
was an intellectual man
Her father was a hydraulic
who had a strong
engineer and the family
influence on his
traveled the Iberian
daughters artistic
Peninsula and into North
development. Varo would Africa. To keep Remedios
copy the blueprints he
busy during these long
brought home from his job trips, her father had her
in construction and he
copy the technical drawings
helped her further develop of his work with their
her technical drawing
straight lines, radii and
abilities. He encouraged
perspectives, which she
independent thought and reproduced faithfully. As a
supplemented her
child she read much with
education with science and favorite authors including
adventure books, notably Jules Verne, Edgar Allan
the novels of Alexandre
Poe and Alexandre Dumas.
Dumas, Jules Verne, and She also read books about
Edgar Allan Poe. As she
oriental philosophy and
grew older he provided her mysticism. Those first few
with text on mysticism and years of her life left an
philosophy. Varos mother, impression on her that
Ignacia Uranga Bergareche, would later show up in
was born to Basque
motifs like machinery,
parents in Argentina. She furnishing, artifacts, and
was a devout Catholic and Romanesque and Gothic
commended herself to the architecture unique to
patron saint of Angls, the Angls.
Virgin of Los Remedios,

Varo was given the basic

arrived to Spain from France
education deemed proper for and she took an early interest
young ladies of a good
in it. While in Madrid, Varo
upbringing at a convent school had her initial introduction to
- an experience that fostered Surrealism through lectures,
her rebellious tendencies.
exhibitions, films and theater.
Varo took a critical view of
She was a regular visitor to the
religion and rejected the
Prado Museum and took
religious ideology of her
particular interest in the
childhood education and
paintings of Hieronymus
instead clung to the liberal and Bosch, most notably The
universalist ideas that her
Garden of Earthly Delights.
father instilled in her.
Formative years
In 1930 she married a young
The very first works of Varo's, painter named Gerardo
a self-portrait and several
Lizrraga. The couple left
portraits of family members, Spain for Paris, both to escape
date to 1923 when she was the rising political tensions as
studying for a baccalaureate well as to be nearer to where
at the School of Arts and
much of Europes art scene
Crafts. In 1924 (age 15) she
was.
enrolled in the San Fernando
Fine Arts Academy in Madrid,
the alma mater of Salvador
Dal and other renowned
artists. Varo got her diploma
as a drawing teacher in 1930.[
At school, surrealistic
elements were already
apparent in her work, as it had
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Sam Peacock is a London based

artist who work primarily with
steel. He is represented by the
Curious Duke Gallery in London
and has solo shows in London,
Europe and Australia.
At present, Peacock is focusing
his work on the Hydraulic
Fracturing industry and creating
artistic responses to this.

2011, Kerrie Lowe Gallery,

Sydney (Solo Show)
2012, Avantgarde Gallery, Berlin
(With artist Fabian Freese)
2013, Curious Duke,
London (Unseen Landscape Solo
Show)
2014, Timberyard, London (With
Roys People
2015, Curious Duke, London
(Fractured)
2015 Vess, Copenhagen (With
30/30cm, Copper, Plaster, Oils
Roys People)
on steel plate.

Reza
Abbasi

Reza Abbasi, in
Persian, usually Reza Abbasi
also Aqa Reza or q Ri
Kshn (c. 15651635) was the
leading Persian miniaturist of
the Isfahan School during the
later Safavid period, spending
most of his career working for
Shah Abbas I.
He is considered to be the last

great master of the Persian

miniature, best known for his
single miniatures for muraqqa
or albums, especially single
figures of beautiful youths.

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signatures that scholars now

reject. He may have worked on
Riza was possibly born in
Kashan, as q Ri Kshn is the ambitious, but incomplete
Shahnameh, now in the
one of the versions of his
Chester Beatty Library in
name; it has also been
suggested that he was born in Dublin. A much later copy of
Mashhad, where his father, the the work, from 1628, at the
miniature artist Ali Asghar, is end of Abbas' reign and
recorded as having worked in rendered in a very different
style, may also be his. It is now
the atelier of the governor,
in the British Library (MS
Prince Ibrahim Mirza. After
Ibrahim's murder, Ali Asghar Additional 27258). His first
dated drawing is from 1601, in
joined Shah Ismail II's
the Topkapi Palace. A book
workshop in the capital
Qazvin.Riza probably received miniature of 1601-2 in the
his training from his father and National Library of Russia has
joined the workshop of Shah been attributed to him; the
Abbas I at a young age. By this only other miniature in the
book is probably by his father.
date, the number of royal
He is generally attributed with
commissions for illustrated
books had diminished, and had the 19 miniatures in a Khusraw
and Shirin of 1631-32, although
been replaced by album
their quality has been
miniatures in terms of
criticised.
employment given to the
artists of the royal workshop.

Life and art

Unlike most earlier Persian

artists, he typically signed his
work, often giving dates and
other details as well, though
there are many pieces with
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His speciality, however, was the restrained, and lay more

single miniature for the albums emphasis on the fashions of the
or muraqqas of private
day, the rich textiles, the
collectors, typically showing one carelessly draped turban, the
or two figures with a lightly
European hat. Effete figures are
drawn garden background,
often presented standing in a
sometimes in gold, in the style curved posture which
formerly
accentuates their well-fed waists.
used for border paintings, with
individual plants dotted about on
a plain background. These vary
between pure pen drawings and
fully painted subjects with colour
throughout, with several
intermediate varieties. The most
typical have at least some colour
in the figures, though not in the
background; later works tend to
have less colour. His, or his
buyers', favourite subjects were
idealized figures of stylishly
dressed and beautiful young
men. According to Barbara
Brend:
The line of Riza's ink drawings
has an absolute mastery
conveying texture, form,
movement and even personality.
His coloured figures, which must
often be portraits, are more

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debate, mostly in German, as to

whether the later Aqa Risa and
Riza Abbasi were the same
figure. It is now accepted that
they were, although his style
shows a considerable shift in
mid-career.Riza Abbasi, the
The style he pioneered
painter, is also not to be
remained influential on
confused with his contemporary
subsequent generations of
Ali Riza Abbasi, Shah Abbas'
Persian painters; several pupils favourite calligrapher, who in
were prominent artists,
1598, was appointed to the
including Mu'in, who painted his important position of royal
portrait many decades later
librarian, and therefore in
(illustrated at top) as well as
charge of the royal atelier of
Riza's son, Muhammed Shafi
painters and calligraphers. Both
Abbasi.
Rizas accompanied the shah on
His earlier works were signed his campaign to Khurasan in
Aqa Risa (or Riza, Reza etc.,
1598 and followed him to the
depending on the
new capital he established in
transliteration used), which,
Isfahan from 1597-98. Soon
confusingly, is also the name of after, Riza Abbasi left the Shah's
a contemporary Persian artist employ in a "mid-life crisis",
who worked for the Mughal
apparently seeking greater
Emperor Jahangir in India. In
independence and freedom to
1603, at the age of about 38,
associate with Isfahan's "lowthe artist in Persia received
life" world, including athletes,
the honorific title of Abbasi
wrestlers and other
from his patron, the shah,
unrespectable types
associating him with his name.
In the early 20th century, there
was much scholarly
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In 1610, he returned to the

Sheila Canby's 1996 monograph
court, probably because he was accepts 128 miniatures and
short of money, and continued in drawings as by Riza, or probably
the employ of the Shah until his so, and lists as "Rejected" or
death.A series of drawings
"Uncertain Attributions" a
copying the miniatures
further 109 that have been
attributed to the great 15thascribed to him at some point
century artist Behzad, which
Today, his works can be found in
were in the library of the shrine Tehran in the Reza Abbasi
at Ardabil, strongly suggest that Museum and in the library at the
Riza had visited the city, probably Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. They
as part of the Shah's party and can also be found in several
perhaps on his visits in 1618 or western museums, such as the
1625.
Smithsonian, where the Freer
Gallery of Art has an album of
About the time of his return to works by him and pupils,[ the
court service, there is a
British Museum, Louvre and the
considerable change in his style. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"The primary colours and
virtuoso technique of his early
portraits give way in the 1620s to
darker, earthier colours and a
coarser, heavier line. New
subjects only partly compensate
for this disappointing stylistic
development". He painted many
older men, perhaps scholars, Sufi
divines, or shepherds, as well as
birds and Europeans, and in his
last years sometimes satirized his
subjects.
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OPEN CALL FOR SOLO

EXHIBITION IN NYC
Exhibition Dates: March 22 April 3, 2015
Entry Deadline: Thursday,
March 12, 2015 @ Midnight

Dacia Gallery invites

emerging and established
artists to submit artwork for
an opportunity to have a Solo
Exhibition at Dacia Gallery. We
are looking for new talented
artists to exhibit and to
possibly represent as well.
The gallery will advertise and
promote the selected artist
for the exhibition and host a

formal Opening Reception for

the exhibit, including an Artist
Talk during the opening
reception.

For more information and to

register please visit our
website:
www.daciagallery.com

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Martin J Leighton
I have been painting with oils on
canvas for the past 45years and
turned professional in 2003. I
work from my studio by the
beautiful harbour side in
Weymouth and am inspired by
the sea and landscape around
me. However, I really enjoy
painting the human form,
especially women, as it's a
constant challenge to capture
their sensuality, mood and the
atmosphere they can portray.
Portraits are a speciality which
can capture a moment in time of
your life and be a gift to last a
lifetime. My work is in private
collections throughout the UK
and in Australia and South Africa.

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Contemporary Art Gallery Online (CAGO)

presents:
March Art Competition and Exhibition:
Landscapes Theme
Call for Artists - Deadline: March 31st,
2015
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Opening of Online Art Exhibition: April
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The gallery announces an international Award Certificates Emailed to Artists:
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regardless of where they reside to apply Online Art Exhibition Closes & Archived:
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$15 for 1 to 3 images and $20 for all

A call to artists is announced for the

artists interpretation of the
Landscapes theme. Submissions
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outdoor scenery, geographical
environments and related landscape
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images up to 5
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It is not necessary to have a PayPal
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Eligibility:
Must be original work to the artist.
The artist must be willing to sell their
work (print or original piece).

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The World of the Angels

By Aziz Anzabi
Sculpture Clay, part of the world of the angels collection.
In this sculpture I tried to show that peace is like an angel and
these angels can protect earth if only the humans rather have
peace instead of evil.
Original
Clay
28cm x 23cm x 15cm

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Constantin Brncui
February 19, 1876 March 16,
1957 was a Romanian sculptor,
painter and photographer who
made his career in France.
Considered a pioneer of
modernism, one of the most
influential sculptors of the 20thcentury, Brncui is called the
patriarch of modern sculpture. As
a child he displayed an aptitude
for carving wooden farm tools.
Formal studies took him first to
Bucharest, then to Munich, then
to the cole des Beaux-Arts in
Paris from 1905 to 1907. His art
emphasizes clean geometrical
lines that balance forms inherent
in his materials with the symbolic
allusions of representational art.
Brncui sought inspiration in
non-European cultures as a
source of primitive exoticism, as
did Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso,
Andr Derain and others. But
other influences emerge from
Romanian folk art traceable
through Byzantine and Dionysian
traditions.
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Early years
Brncui grew up in the village
of Hobia, Gorj, near Trgu Jiu,
close to Romania's Carpathian
Mountains, an area known for
its rich tradition of folk crafts,
particularly woodcarving.
Geometric patterns of the
region are seen in his later
works.

Brncui created a violin by

hand with materials he found
around his workplace.
Impressed by Brncui's talent
for carving, an industrialist
entered him in the Craiova
School of Arts and Crafts (coala
de arte i meserii), where he
pursued his love for
woodworking, graduating with
honors in 1898.

His parents Nicolae and Maria

Brncui were poor peasants
who earned a meager living
through back-breaking labor;
from the age of seven,
Constantin herded the family's
flock of sheep. He showed
talent for carving objects out of
wood, and often ran away from
home to escape the bullying of
his father and older brothers.
At the age of nine, Brncui left
the village to work in the
nearest large town. At 11 he
went into the service of a grocer
in Slatina; and then he became
a domestic in a public house in
Craiova where he remained for
several years. When he was 18,
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Personal life
Brncui would cook his own
He then enrolled in the
food, traditional Romanian
Bucharest School of Fine Arts,
dishes, with which he would
where he received academic
treat his guests.
training in sculpture. He worked
hard, and quickly distinguished Brncui held a large spectrum of
himself as talented. One of his interests, from science to music.
earliest surviving works, under He was a good violinist and he
the guidance of his anatomy
would sing old Romanian folk
teacher, Dimitrie Gerota, is a
songs, often expressing by them
masterfully rendered corch
his feelings of homesickness.
(statue of a man with skin
After the installment of
removed to reveal the muscles communism, he never
underneath) which was
considered moving back to his
exhibited at the Romanian
native Romania, but he did visit it
Athenaeum in 1903. Though
eight times.
just an anatomical study, it
foreshadowed the sculptor's
His circle of friends included
later efforts to reveal essence artists and intellectuals in Paris
rather than merely copy
such as Amedeo Modigliani, Ezra
outward appearance.
Pound, Henri Pierre Roch,
Brncui always dressed in the Guillaume Apollinaire, Louise
simple ways the Romanian
Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Man
peasants did. His studio was
Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Henri
reminiscent of the houses of the Rousseau, and Fernand Lger. He
peasants from his native region: was an old friend of Romany
there was a big slab of rock as a Marie, who was also Romanian,
table and a primitive fireplace, and referred Isamu Noguchi to
similar to those found in
her caf in Greenwich Village.
traditional houses in his native
Oltenia, while the rest of the
furniture was made by him out of
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wood.

Although surrounded by the

Parisian avant-garde,
Brncuineverlostthe
contact with Romania
and had friends from the
community of Romanian
artists and intellectuals living
in Paris, including Benjamin
Fondane, George Enescu,
Theodor Pallady, Camil
Ressu,NicolaeDrscu,
Panait Istrati, Traian Vuia,
Eugne Ionesco, Emil Cioran

and Paul Celan.

Brncuiheldaparticular
interest in mythology,
especially Romanian
mythology, folk tales, and
traditional art (which also had
a strong influence on his
works), but he became
interested in African and
Mediterranean art as well.

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Tabriz style
First Tabriz style or Mogul
style (ages 7 and 8 AH..) Is
the first Iranian miniature
painting style founded in
Tabriz and because of this
they call it the Tabriz style.
This coincided with the
patriarch of the Mughal
empire (Eelkhanian)in Iran
Tabriz was the capital . This
style is when symbols of
Chinese paintings mixed
with Persian miniatures. The
impact of Chinese Painting
on Iranian painting is
obvious.
The style can benefit from
the work of Ibn Bukhtishu
Bio (695 AH),Jameh altawarikh Rashidi (714 AD)
and Dmvt Shahnameh
(Abusaeed)
(731-737 AD) refer to the
caliography of Naskh. Most
of the books were produced
in the Rob Rashidi.

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