Thursday 13 January 2011
The question of women....
My mother struggled with the depiction of female figure in public after the islamic revolution. She ridicules unification and islamification of female clothing in these drawings.
People's artist
Pari always chose to work for the neediest of the society. She decided to serve those who could not afford to pay for their medical care. I think it all returns to an incident I heard from my grandmother. Pari was only a little girl and was badly ill with fever. My grandmother rushed her to the only doctor in town who refused to see her because my grandmother didn't have enough money with her. Somehow this incident determined Pari's future. It was my grandmother who tells her this story as she was growing up. When finally she becomes a doctor in Tehran (the capital), she returns to the very same people in the south of Iran and works there for nearly a decade. Her art also reflects her love for ordinary people.
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