Category: Painting

From 5th to 11th March 2019, more than 2 million passengers who pass through the Shibuya Station in Tokyo will see the detailed floral paintings of Lida Sherafatmand, who depicts identity, nationalism, and corruption as part of the main international social concerns of today. This Iranian-born artist with international recognition dissects with these pictorial works how a national identity is...

  Kahlil Gibran, The Divine World (1923), Illustration for The Prophet, Charcoal. Gibran Museum Antonia Pont, Deakin University Kahlil Gibran (original spelling at birth “Khalil”) is a strange phenomenon of 20th Century letters and publishing. After Shakespeare and the Chinese poet Laozi, Gibran’s work from 1923, The Prophet, has made him the third most-sold poet of all time. This slim...