To begin this project, I will examine the most influential Iranian women, including Shirin Ebadi, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003; Neda Agha-Soltan, an Iconic martyr of the Green movement and a symbol of the Persian woman rebellion; Forough Farokhzad, a forerunner of Persian feminist poets; Farah Diba, Queen of Persia; Simin Daneshvar, first female author in Iran; and Simin Behbahani, an iconic Iranian contemporary poet, lyricist, and activist, nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in literature, among twenty-four other figures that will make my first series of Orientalist artwork. This collection of Persian and Arab women will be published as a book. The title of this book/art series is “Orientalism”. Zaha Hadddid, the world most …show more content…
Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer and a former judge and human rights activists, founder of the defenders of the Human Rights Centre in Iran. Shirin Ebadi was awarded the Rafto and Nobel Peace prizes in 2003. She is an eminent figure, a female pioneer of democracy and human rights, and she has inspired millions of people all over the world.
In the present artwork, I have incorporated the real image of Shirin Ebadi in the centre of the artwork. In this image, Ebadi symbolizes all Iranian/Middle Eastern women. The image is also larger in size and brighter than the rest of the elements in the painting. The large size of the image and the centralization of Ebadi in the artwork places her as the focus of the artwork. Ebadi’s image is the first element to be seen in the artwork. The significance in size of Ebadi’s image suggests the importance and immense value of the female sitting behind her desk in the artwork. Ebadi’s image is a printed image of a real photo of her. The utilization of Ebadi’s image allows the viewer to realize that it is confronting reality, not fantasy. This real image stands in opposition to the European fantasy depicted of Orientals. Ebadi’s image suggests a distinguished quality and a strong identity in opposition to the image of Oriental women as represented in the Oriental European paintings. Women are shown as intelligent, knowledgeable, dignified, and strong and
Shahzia Skinder, a critically praise Asian American artists, whose contemporary paintings and murals combine the traditional art of Indo-Persian Miniature painting, and her own life experience into the rich and colorful layers of her works. I have found her art to be breathtakingly beautiful and meticulously stylized. Her elaborate and vivid compositions, using miniature art and symbols from India and Pakistan help me connect with aspects of Hindu and Miuslim mythology and the history between the two countries that I had not thought of for a long while now.
As part of “Dance Houston 2013”, the “Ndani” was performed on April sixth of the year two thousands and thirteen at the Wortham center. The dance executed by a group of eight young dancers, among which Otis Berry, was choreographed by Shaté Edwards. Miss Edwards has an engaged, skillful, and powerful style. Her background includes jazz, tap, stepping, modern and more. She is a Houston, Texas native, who attended college in Atlanta, Georgia, and has performed a lot in the U.S and China and has participated in numerous productions.
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When we look at this piece, we tend to see the differences in ways a subject can be organized and displayed. This assemblage by Betye Saar shows us how using different pieces of medium can bring about the wholeness of the point of view in which the artist is trying to portray. So in part, this piece speaks about stereotyping and how it is seen through the eyes of an artist.
Sattareh Farman-Farmaian paints a vivid picture of her journey from childhood to her adult life and her encounters of the Islamic Revolution as they unfold in her home country of Iran. Even when she is studying or working in the United States, Farman-Farmaian is in constant contact with her relatives back home as well as constantly reading the news of the area as it unfolds, allowing her to give the best reactions to these events as they impacted her and her family directly. Her close relation to these events throughout the story Daughter of Persia allows Farman-Farmaian to give one of the best accounts of someone who lived through the Islamic Revolution.
The Iranian author of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, narrates a Bildungsroman showing her growth and development in Iran, as well as a memoir, showing the historical events in Iran. She discusses historical events like the Islamic revolution in 1979, which made it compulsory for the Iranian females to wear veils. Satrapi’s life story is mainly set in Iran, where she shows readers the strict, controlling and oppressive government the Iranians live under as well as the importance of clothing and body ornamentation after the Islamic revolution. To show this, she makes use of characters like her mother, Taji Satrapi, who is strongly against the Islamic Revolution in Iran and herself, who disagrees with the Iranian regime and is more modern like
This painting represents the love of an woman towards her husband. Wife was pleading her husband not to go at war because she care about husband’s life. Which show that female women at that age till now cares about their husband.
In The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the genre choice of the graphic novel vividly portrays the life-experience that Satrapi herself gone through as a youth growing up in Iran back in the 1980s. Satrapi utilizes a unique drawing style to emphasize the influence that the Islamic Republic has brought to her. The recurring action of teachers implanting Islamic values in children throughout Marjane’s education in Iran is demonstrated through a set of related images, which implicitly reflect on the destruction of childhood that is caused by a totalitarian regime. For instance, the teachers force the girls to wear veils on page1 and tells the parents that “either [girls] obey the law, or [they are] expelled” (Satrapi, 98) later on. Also, the background of these images takes place where Iran is involved in both revolution and war; it contributes to children’ miserable situation even more.
Transnationality is a theme not often brought up in the art world. Many feminist artists use transnational themes to convey their messages. Both Shirin Neshat and Mona Hatoum often show their transnational experiences through their art. Hatoum’s “Doormat II” and “Speechless” by Shirin Neshat convey the transnational experience in different ways but are in conversation with each other. Shirin Neshat plays with western stereotypes that have been thrust upon her by living in the United States. She illustrates the image of the “Muslim woman” and pokes and prods at the expectations of this intersectional persona. Mona Hatoum uses themes of home and borders in her works. These subjects convey her experiences of being a mestiza in a world that doesn’t understand that word.
Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis, makes important strides toward altering how Western audiences perceive Iranian women. Satrapi endeavors to display the intersection of the lives of some Westerners with her life as an Iranian, who spent some time in the West. Satrapi, dissatisfied with representations she saw of Iranian women in France, decided to challenge them. In her words, “From the time I came to France in 1994, I was always telling stories about life in Iran to my friends. We’d see pieces about Iran on television, but they didn’t represent my experience at all. I had to keep saying, ‘No, it’s not like that there.’ I’ve been justifying why it isn’t negative to be an Iranian for almost twenty years. How strange when it isn’t
Throughout the novel The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, many examples of what women are supposed to be are presented during and after the Iranian Revolution. The Iranian Revolution changed the way women were viewed in Iran and greatly influenced women during this time. Marjane’s character is influenced by the roles that the women in her life play around her, as well as her surrounding especially including the revolution. In 1980 a cultural revolution took place in Iran. Women were forced to wear veils and not show any hair.
The graphic novel Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, explores her childhood years in the middle of the Islamic Revolution. Situated in the commotion of the overthrowing of the Shah's regime, and the war with Iraq, the reader learns how secularists, nationalists and even Muslims marginalized, excluded and silenced the modernists in Iran during the Islamic
The world stereotypes different types of culture, but real identity can be only defined by a person who has experienced the specific way of life. In Persepolis The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi, the author creates a graphic memoir representing her childhood growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Satrapi evokes perfectly regarding her childhood, her reaction towards the Islamic Revolution. She is rebellious to the Islamic revolution’s new regulations and enforcement and decides to take a secular approach to defend her rights. In Persepolis, the narrator illustrates the opposition against the Islamic Revolution and Shah’s reign and as well as her pursuit in a secular culture. Her opposition and desire allow the readers to reconsider on past stereotypes about the Middle Eastern culture.
“I wanted to be an educated, liberated woman. And if the pursuit of knowledge meant getting cancer, so be it. (73)” This quote signifies just how challenging it is to be a woman in 1980’s Iran and this is the exact situation main character, Marji is facing. She has dreams of being a independent women, yet society and gender roles around her make success for women a challenging feat. Gender roles are forced on Marji and Iranian women through the hijab and women’s roles in both society and war.
This book, “Iran Awakening”, is a novel written by Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi. Ebadi weaves the story of her life in a very personal and unique way, telling the account of the overthrow of the shah and the establishment of a new, religious fundamentalist regime in which opposition to the government are imprisoned, tortured, and murdered. By simply reading the Prologue, one can see the love Ebadi has for Iran and her people. This love that Ebadi has for the oppressed of Iran is a theme that appears throughout the book and seems to be a large factor behind her drive to stand up for those who cannot stand up for