{"id":3554,"date":"2023-04-15T19:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T23:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2023-05-06T16:23:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T20:23:34","slug":"three-iranian-painters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/three-iranian-painters\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Iranian Painters"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Iranian artists are taking inspiration from the anti-government protests that swept Iran after the murder of Mahsa Amini last September. After more than four decades of authoritarian clerical rule, the protest movement, and its slogan \u201cJin Jiyan Azad\u00ee,\u201d changed the country, prompting young Iranians\u2014including artists\u2014to dream of a different future for their country. In the violent crackdown that followed, security forces killed some 500 people and detained more than 20,000, according to rights groups.<\/p>

In April The Washington Post <\/em>reported<\/a> on the work of three Iranian painters whose canvases express their hopes and fears about the popular uprising. All three spoke to reporter Miriam Berger on condition that they be identified only by their first names, for fear of government reprisal.<\/p>

Emad, in Tehran, told the Post<\/em> he paints \u201cfor all the amazing people they have taken away from us.\u201d His oil canvases chronicle the uprising, how it looked and felt. His figures are mostly female because women are at the forefront. He painted a birthday cake for those who were killed in the crackdown. \u00a0<\/p>

Negin, an artist in Kermanshah, Rojhelat, is Kurdish. She creates self-portraits \u201cfor my people all over Kurdistan,\u201d the birthplace of the protest movement. \u00a0\u201cThe sorrow born by the murder and massacre of my people, and especially children, is inexplicable with words,\u201d she told the Post<\/em>. \u201cI cannot describe it. I only feel it and suffer from it and try to express it in my artwork.\u201d Art is a \u201cshared language,\u201d she said. \u201cIt can blow through our bodies like a breeze and carry this message of pain.\u201d<\/p>

Farnoud, an artist in the northern city of Rasht, paints to remind himself of what he calls the uprising\u2019s inner light. \u201cWherever we look, there are bodies that do not have life anymore, and we feel death is swallowing us all,\u201d he told the Post<\/em>. \u201cBut finally in the darkest moment, life will show itself,\u201d representing for him \u201cthe light somewhere beyond all the ugliness.\u201d<\/p>

Although the streets of Iran are calmer now, many believe the movement will reemerge with another spark. \u201cWe have lost so many valuable friends. So much blood has been shed,\u201d Emad said, \u201cThe world needs to see that and be moved by it for action.\u201d<\/p>

Miriam Berger, \u201cOn Canvas,<\/a> Iranian Artists Capture the Hope and Turmoil of an Uprising,\u201d Washington Post, <\/em>April 8, 2023.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three Iranian Painters Iranian artists are taking inspiration from the anti-government protests that swept Iran after the murder of Mahsa Amini last September. After more than four decades of authoritarian clerical rule, the protest movement, and its slogan \u201cJin Jiyan Azad\u00ee,\u201d changed the country, prompting young Iranians\u2014including artists\u2014to dream of a different future for their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,90],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual-art","tag-painting","tag-rojhelat"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions\/3569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}