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Graceful Paintings Portraits by Iranian Artist Bahman

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Saatchi Art

Self-taught artist, my work is influenced by various Schools, from the encaustic paintings of the antiquity ( the Fayum portraits) to the more refined works of the Quattrocento. It combines disparate elements and artifacts from past civilisations.

“I find my inspiration in mysticism and esotericism with borrowed elements from various Schools of thought.”

There are many sources of inspirations. Icons, illuminated miniatures, ancient artifacts from the Etruscan to the Byzantine era. The work is based upon contrasts between the mat paper and the golden parts which come with different textures and degrees of reflection. It goes from mat to very glossy .

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Don Bachardy

Portrait of John Sonsini by Don Bachardy – c. 1985

John Sonsini

Byron – 2008

Byron – 2009

John Sonsini

Ruben, Pedro, Miguel – 2004

Luis, Nelson, Adolfo, Geovani, Ramiro  – 2005

Daniel, Rudy, José and Gabriel – 2004

 

John Sonsini

Francisco – 2018

Miguel – 2018

John Sonsini

Gabriel Barajas – 2002

Gabriel – 2003

Gabriel

John Sonsini

John Sonsini and Gabriel Barajas – 2004

When John Sonsini began painting Latino day laborers in Los Angeles, California, around 2001, his intentions weren’t quite political. They were practical. The subjects were available and abundant. Sonsini first noticed a man cleaning up outside the building that housed his studio. They struck up a conversation. Sonsini, upon learning that the man spent his days looking for work on Olympic Boulevard, offered him a job: artistic subject. “The ‘concept’ is really all wrapped up in the need to find guys who would be available to model daily at the studio, It was my partner Gabriel’s idea to approach the guys gathering for work in the neighborhood of our studio. So the notion of painting dayworkers grew entirely out of my need to have sitters who were available to work daily in the studio.” Sonsini, born in 1950 in Rome, New York, previously compared his painting practice to street photography, emphasizing its spontaneity and intense interest in quotidian detail. He’s previously painted individuals he met on the street in L.A., and spent over six years painting no one but his partner Gabriel. Sonsini also recognizes similarities between his painting practice and the craft-based tasks his subjects are often hired to complete, as both manually create an object from nothing.

Isidor Kaufmann

Isidor Kaufmann (Hungarian: Kaufman(n) Izidor, Hebrew: איזידור קאופמן‎; March 22, 1853 in Arad – 1921 in Vienna) was an Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes. Having devoted his career to genre painting, he traveled throughout Eastern Europe in search of scenes of Jewish, often Hasidic life.

Isidor Kaufmann

Rabbi in front of the Wooden Synagogue Jablonow