[yorkie]

After reading Katouzian’s bio, I wanted to see what his work was like. His depression is very visible in many of his sketches and paintings. Some of his pieces remind me Salvador Dali’s work, others are so brutally painful, and some portray a very deep sadness. (There appears to be a touch of madness buried in his canvas.) Of course, that is just my opinion. Check for yourself:

http://www.persia.org/Images/Katouzian_art/artshort_new.html

[Lady Jag]

Gee, yuck. I agree.

[Cardhu]

What you see is correct, but almost all of them were painted during the Iran, Iraq War where more than a million soldiers and civilians died on both sides.

Perhaps he was depicting the plight of Iran then, not his personal angst.

Artists have always chronicled their times, he could not very well ignore the sadness, horror and futility of it all.

Morteza Katouzian

The Letter