Aziz art March 2018

Dr. Reza Khodadadi
born Ardabil,lives and works in
Tehran. Iranian contemporary
artist, Academic, painter, sculptor,
Urban artist & Muralist Ph.d in Art
Reseauch and Professor of Art,
was born in 1961, Ardabil, Iran.
Faculty member of Tehran
University of Art.
Author of "Mural techniques"
book.
Author of eight books in the field
of Public art and murals Entitled
"Rules and Regulations Urban
Beautification".
Authored several articles and
essays.
Project study “ Murals of Tehran:
musts and musts no
Painting
Perplexity by Lines
The Works of Reza Khodadadi
present various of aspects of
assembling patterns and shapes
alongside each other in mixed
media. Continuity and colored
material play an integral part in
his art. His love for Rumi′s poetic
narrative to his paintings. in series
'Heyrani'(Perplexity) the viewers
face an abstract work which allows
them to make a literal 'Reading' of
visual expression.
The Perplexity series is Created
with carefully drawn overlapping
lines. These lines stand out in the
background even though they are
at times diluted, and their
resemblance to straw and hay gives
the painting the feel of a landscape.
These landscapes seem distant
from eastern landscapes yet during
his creative process Khodadadi
distances his work from these
familiar scenes. The over-stacking
and criss- crossing of lines confer
on the painting a feeling of pattern.
Straight lines begin to curl and give
a feel of wind and dishevelment
that can be fathomed as
tantamount to perplexity or
bewilderment. The Contrasting
lines play an integral part in the
aesthetics of this painting while the
colors are form the same group
(unless used for background
spacing). Line segments are the
simplest of visual ingredients yet
the artist,