Searching for liberty

Honestly I have very little taste for realistic paintings and I like the impressionist sort far far better. There is something in me which rebels at the whole concept of realism. May be I can’t stand the sight of order in a chaotic world.

















Also to me the real is subjective and is personal (in art), and there is no point in recreating the world with a paint brush when you can capture any number of versions of it on a camera. If you are skill full enough you can breathe life into them too. Anyway I would prefer Guernica every time to any of its realist versions.

Yet here are some realistic paintings that my brother forwarded to me. I haven’t seen the work of Iman Maleki before and do not know anything about him. He is an Iranian and maybe that’s the reason why he does only realistic paintings.

His figures seem to be in search of something. Who knows may be its freedom that they are searching for!