The Promise of Future (2023) Painting by Bahram Berj Kafai
Seller Bahram Berj Kafai
Seller Bahram Berj Kafai
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Seller Bahram Berj Kafai
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Painting,
Oil
on Canvas
- Dimensions Height 22in, Width 28in
- Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Land Art Landscape
Bahram Berg Kafai is a Californian expressionist artist born in 1956. Kafai is a retired Aerospace Engineer, inventor, and artist. He began oil painting in 1964, graduated from Academy of fine art in Tehran. He moved to California in 1975.
When he started painting in the 1960’s, Kafai’s work was informed by political, social, and personal contents. Several years after, he found nature to be the guiding principle in his pieces. The rich scenery and landscapes he found in California inspired him to travel to the subject of his paintings. For Kafai, nature is serving as a conduit, a vehicle for visceral expression, the passage of thoughts.
My all time favorite quote:
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
-Albert Einstein
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Bahram Berj Kafai is an Iranian-American painter, retired Aerospace Engineer and inventor of several U.S. Patents in Nano-Technology, based in California for the past forty years. He is noted for expressionist paintings of the Golden State's rich landscapes and astronomy subjects.
Philosophy
My paintings interpret nature, its cyclical images of growth and renewal. I paint nature not as I see it, but as it ought to be. I want to be up close to the image, to have the sun low enough in the sky so that light reflects off surfaces in dynamic ways. I want trees to be the key compositional elements of each piece. Finished paintings are a synthesis of my imagination and my observations of nature.
My landscape pieces are either busy with tree branches, capturing the complexity and meticulous detail of nature, or simple and rough, conveying a sense of calm. The latter of these techniques happens and develops intuitively. The colors of the paint, the amount of light is not necessary. My internal reaction to the scenery is what I focus on; everything else is forgotten.
The more worked on paintings, the ones with webbed shadows and detailed reflections, are more dynamic: the calm of color and frantic lines show the peeking and falling of moods. Nature as a subject is never still. It always provides variations, new ways of seeing. This is what inspires me to paint; I want to capture nature as it constantly mends itself.
When I paint in the open air, I am living in my canvas, in my subject matter. I eat, sleep, and exist in what I will later capture in paint. I witness nature in all four of her seasons and may travel several times to the same location, paying heed to light, the movement of branches. I may visit the same site in rain, in the fall, or at the peek of summer to see how temperature and the seasons affect the same landscape and the way it is to be interpreted.
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
-Albert Einstein
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Nationality:
UNITED STATES
- Date of birth : 1956
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary American Artists
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