A couple of months ago I first posted on DD some paintings of William Bouguereau as well as a Prize winning painting of the Iranian artist, Iman Malaki, who won the Bouguereau Prize and the Chairman's´s Choice at the ARC International competition.
Last week a friend sent me a PPP of Iman Maleki's work - I am not sure who the author of the Presentation is but it does give a link to the artist´s web site at the end.
Instead of posting just the one Presentation, which I translated, I made one of William Bougereau's´s work in a similar vein as a form of comparison.
"Bouguereau achieves emotional power in his work second to none, and for the themes he loved, beyond any other in art history. He was especially sensitive to the difficulties in growing up, and all through childhood he manages to capture the most exquisite subtle nuances of insecurity, self consciousness, the search for identity, the struggle with budding sensuality and the conflict between the need to mature and the joy of wanting to stay immersed in childhood."
Through the amazing paintings of the Iranian artist Iman Maleki (born on 1976 in Tehran, and Bouguereau we can see the young women of the early 1800´s in France and the young women of Iran in the early 21st century.
Both have music, the first is auto advance, and the second is manual - keep the speakers low for mine. :)
In the first PP, I was surprised to see all the children were shoe-less (but for the little boy sleeping.) His perfection in their hands and feet is perhaps the best I have ever seen. (Most artists make the hands and feet less obvious, as they are extremely difficult to capture with paints and a brush on canvas.)
And, one more thing - Wm. Bouguereau was a very handsome man, IMHO.
Now, off to see the second one - Thank you, Sir Cardhu!
Just beautiful, Cardy! As impressive as they are on my computer, I’ll bet they’re even more awesome in person.
I notice that Maleki is just a young man. Wow! Can’t wait to see more from him, he’s amazing!