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IRAN
Farah Seyed Abolghasem
The Orange Point 1998
mixed media on canvas with applied painted papers 98.5 x 68.6 cm

Farah Seyed Abolghasem was born in 1960 and studied art at the Alzahra University, Iran. She works as a painter, designer, jeweller, and university art teacher. The painting shows the setting sun about to pass the line of a hill. The landscape has been lifted up to the picture plane, so that perspective is lost and the scene abstracted. Fields, walls, buildings, and roads seem to dissolve in hazy light. The brilliance of the orange is strengthened by the complementary blues, while painted tissue papers, delicately drawn lines, and films of colour disclose a fragility. The artist comments: ‘When I create any work, my mind and heart express my real feeling. It springs from deep inside me and has to do with finding an equilibrium with nature’.