01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #6

Vik Muniz, B.1961

NYMPHEAS, AFTER CLAUDE MONET (PICTURES OF MAGAZINES 2), c. 2013

c-print, in two parts

221 by 309.9 cm.; 87 by 122in.

Private collection

“With photographs you can see history through your own eyes and you can make your own judgments and interpretations… When people look at one of my pictures, I don’t want them to actually see something represented. I prefer for them to see how something gets to represent something else.” Vik Muniz

Ali Banisadr is an Iranian-born artist from New York City working primarily with oil painting  and also with printmaking. Banisadr was ranked #1 in Flash Art's Top 100 Artists of 2011

Originally, from Tehran, Banisadr moved with his family to San Diego, in the United States. He moved to New York in 2000 to study a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts, and for a Master of Fine Arts at the New York Academy of Art.

According to an interview with The Met, New York Banisadr states he is influenced by his childhood memories of growing up in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war and the Islamic Revolution. He compares his work to Hieronymus Bosch and other figurative artists, whose work revolve around dynamism and conflict. Banisadr states he experiences the neurological condition synthesia, which greatly affects his paintings, imbuing a sense of sound and vitriol. More on Ali Banisadr

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