Artist Lecture 1 Mahsan Ghazianzad

I went to lecture by the artist Mahsan Ghazianzad, she was a candidate for Master of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada. Her Thesis Exhibition was titled Ocean in A Drop, it was of her paintings that I would have classified as Modern. The artist is originally from Tehran, Iran she moved to the U.S. five years ago. She had always been an artist at a young age doing drawing she drew flowers with bleeding hands when she was 6 after she saw political drawings on the side of buildings, her parents embraced her artworks. Since Iran has a very strict culture, she wanted to stand out under her Hijab, when she was an in grade school, she would wear a different color barrette and show her hair, her teachers would not be happy. When she Came to the U.S. She enjoyed painting, she decided to practice ungiven freedom in an area where she could stay away from a constant monitoring government. In her paintings, she wanted to rebel against the repression of Women and faith. Her Influences were German Expressionism, such as artists, Kollwitz, Munch, Kirchner and Schile. In her many paintings there is an aspect of flying Airplanes Which symbolized Freedom and moving freely with the aspect of more concern on journey then destination. Her other influences were Abstract Expressionism, Cubism, and Symbolism. The symbols she also included was discovery, loss, and being forgotten. The other artists that were influences to her Motherwell, Rothko, Beuys, and Pollock. Mahsan wants the viewer to feel what she feels in a way there is a strong Psychological and Emotional aspect her work in the way she conveys certain ideas into them.