User:Teamworks1/Kazarian Painter

Little is known about the artist known as Kazarian. His birthdate is unknown. He was originally born in Armenia but emigrated to (Persia what is now known as Iran) in the early 1960's. He sold his works in the capital of Iran, Tehran. Kazarian started his career poor selling his art on the streets of Tehran. His early art was painted on a cardboard like substance. As he became more well known and earned money he began painting on canvas. The majority of his work was of middle eastern men as well as floral scenes. Occasionally he painted scenes of middle eastern celebrations although these are quite uncommon. Kazarian's work stood out from other Middle Eastern Artists because of the realism of the faces of the Iranian men he painted. Kazarian captured the men acting as they normally would with incredible attention to detail. Such as an elderly man smoking a pipe oblivious to anything but enjoying the smoke. In other paintings he managed to capture to color in a mans beard changing as he grew older or show an off kilter turban or a turban that was not properly done. This attention to detail gained Kazarian a small level of fame mostly among foreigners as he displayed his work close to the United States Embassy

LATER LIFE AND END OF CAREER: When the Ayatollah Khomeini came to power during the Iranian Revolution In the early 1980's Kazarians work stopped and it is believed he may have been killed in the revolution fighting for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.

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