Hooshang khorasani biography definition

The opening reception for a solo exhibition by Ruston artist Hooshang Khorasani is set for 5-9 p.m. today, Aug. 3, at the Northeast Louisiana Arts Council as part of this month’s Downtown Gallery Crawl in Monroe and West Monroe.

Three genres of Khorasani’s work are on display: abstract, equine and floral. The exhibit will continue until Sept. 8.

Khorasani received additional recognition recently when Bayou Life magazine featured him as its Bayou Artist for July.

The current exhibit includes both acrylic and mixed media paintings, ranging from 6-by-6 inches to 48-by-48 inches.

Khorasani is an internationally exhibited artist whose paintings are displayed in private collections in Europe and across the United States as well as in several corporate collections. Museum collections include the American Saddlebred Museum and the International Museum of the Horse, both in Lexington, Kentucky; the Union Museum of History and Art, Farmerville; and Lake County Museum o

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Intellectual movements in Iran

Intellectual movements in Iran involve the Iranian experience of modernity and its associated art, science, literature, poetry, and political structures that have been changing since the 19th century.

History of Iranian modernity

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Long before the European Renaissance generated the radical ideas that eventually reshaped Europe and the United States, Persian statesmen, artists, and intellectuals had formulated ideas that strikingly anticipate those of modernity. Since more than thousand years ago there has been a conflict in Persia between the search for modernity and the forces of religious obscurantism.

Some twenty-five hundred years ago, when Herodotus was writing his Histories, Persia was the West's ultimate other.

It has been a common belief of scholars that modernity began in the West and is by its philosophical natur, economic underpinning, and cultural exigencies a uniquely western phenomenon. All other cultures, those w

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Bayou Artist | Hooshang Khorasani

article bygd Starla Gatson
photography by Kelly Moore Clark

It’s no secret that energy is a common theme of Hooshang Khorasani’s art. He declares it in the first line of his artist statement — “Energy in natur and the world around me, in moving colors that show power, in the inner life of my subjects,” he explains in the written explanation of his work — and mentions it several times in his conversation with us at BayouLife. 

Hooshang doesn’t have to announce energy’s presence, though. It’s something viewers of his art can see plainly.

“One of my clients wrote something that said, ‘Every time I look at my painting, I want to get out and uppstart running,’” he reveals. 

He laughs as he shares the memory, but Khorasani is serious about creating the energy his client felt. It’s a positive force, he explains. He acknowledges that art can evoke heavy, negative emotions, but he’s only interested in creatin