Farah Ossouli Explained

Farah Ossouli
Native Name:فرح اصولی
Native Name Lang:fa
Other Names:Farahnaz Ossouli
Birth Date:10 August 1953
Birth Place:Zanjan, Iran
Children:2
Website:Official website
Occupation:Painter

Farah Ossouli (Persian: فرح اصولی, born 10 August 1953 in Zanjan, Iran) is an Iranian painter, based in Tehran.[1] She is known for her modern interpretation of Persian miniature. Often her work draws on issues related to women's life, Persian poetry, and classical western art.

Biography

Ossouli graduated in 1971 from the Girls' School of Fine Arts, Tehran.[2] Ossouli graduated in 1977 with a B.A. degree in graphic design from University of Tehran. In 1975, Ossouli married Khosrow Sinai.[3]

Her work is often created in gouache and watercolor and features subjects found in Persian miniature painting set in contemporary themes, subjects may include women, men, grapes, birds, flowers, grapes, among other things.[4] [5] Her work replaced the text often found in traditional miniature painting with blocks of color and the scale of the figures is manipulated.[6]

She has chaired the 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, held in 2003.[7]

Her work has been collected in many public art collections including, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[8] Art Gallery of Western Australia, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[9] among others. She has held solo exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Iran, and participated in group exhibition in many other countries.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Farah Ossouli on Instagram . registration . 27 October 2022 . Instagram . en.
  2. Web site: Farah Ossouli Biography. Artnet.com. 2019-12-13.
  3. Web site: Kav . Fatemeh . 14 January 2011 . A family affair: The story of the Sinai family . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210117090618/https://www.mashallahnews.com/its-a-family-affair/ . 17 January 2021 . 13 December 2019 . Mashallah News . en-US . their dad, film maker Khosrow Sinai, and his two wives, Farah Ossouli and Gizella Varga-Sinai,.
  4. Web site: Rezapoor . Manijeh . 6 July 2019 . "The Moon and the Sun" up at Tehran gallery reflects mesmerizing prints of Ossouli paintings . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190707171939/https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/437791/The-Moon-and-the-Sun-up-at-Tehran-gallery-reflects-mesmerizing . 7 July 2019 . 13 December 2019 . Tehran Times . en.
  5. Web site: Art Gallery in Perth Acquires Farah Ossouli's Miniature Paintings. 2018-08-05. Financial Tribune. En. 2019-12-13.
  6. Web site: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Modern and Contemporary Art in Iran. Ekhtiar. Maryam. Sardar. Marika. October 2004. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2019-12-13. artists like Farah Ossouli (born 1953) working in Iran. She has chosen the medium of Persian miniature painting as the point of departure for her art. In her paintings, Ossuli replaces the spaces for text with fields of color and manipulates the scale of the figures, many of which are women..
  7. Web site: 6th Contemporary Painting Biennial in December. 2003-07-19. Tehran Times. en. 2019-12-13.
  8. Web site: Collection: Rival, 2011, Farah Ossouli . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200630085616/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/457790 . 30 June 2020 . 27 October 2022 . The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  9. Web site: Collection search: Michelangelo, Ahmad and I . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20181110042042/https://collections.lacma.org/node/2114810 . 10 November 2018 . 27 October 2022 . Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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