A new style in the world of art

Art Business News, Feb, 2005

A Critical Praise On Kamran Khavarani's paintings By Albert Boime, professor of Art History at UCLA October 2003

Exalted by the love poems of the thirteenth-century Persian poet, Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, Kamran Khavarani seeks to translate his ecstatic feelings into visual harmonies that celebrate the idea of Presence ... the loving, creative sense expressing potentially in everything and everyone.

With broad sweeping gestures rippling horizontally across the surface in brilliant hues of blue-greens, purples, yellow-greens and oranges, Khavarani visually reflects his inner response to Rumi, evoking the oceanic and cosmic metaphors of the Sufi mystic.

Kamran defines his style as Momentism, bringing love and beauty into the here and now with a maximum of energy and spontaneity that manifests fulfillment of joy in the eternal present. This is an apt term to describe his layered, billowing striations of dazzling color that suggest sunset and cloud effects, the blending of heaven and earth, the living sea washing over us, rejuvenating and elevating the mind to that state of creative union in which the ego ceases to dictate and consciousness merges with the universe of the Beloved.

Kamran Khavarani was born into an artistic family in Iran in 1941. He completed his education with a Master's degree in Architecture and a Ph.D. in Urban Design. His architectural studies were done under the guidance of his mentor Mr. Hooshang Seyhoon, the internationally renowned Iranian authority in art and architecture.

During over forty years of his architectural practice, Khavarani has won international recognition as well as numerous awards including California's highest building award of excellence in single family category, national design award for special events, and the City of Beverly Hills design award in commercial category.

Mr. Khavarani began painting at the age of three. His classical and formal training in arts and architecture influenced his earlier paintings. Since his recent encounters with the philosophy of Rumi and other great teachers, both the artist and his art have been transformed and his current paintings carry subtle mystical messages. Many of Khavarani's paintings are housed in private art collections.

Professor Boime is a world-renowned art scholar and author of many books and texts including "The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century', and 'The Art in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1800- and many others.

A Critical Praise On Kamran Khavarani's paintings By Roshan Hubbard, Art and Film Historian and Lecturer BFA--Painting and Art History CAGS--Visual Communication November 2004

The Romantic principles of spontaneous expression, intuition, mystery and inner truth guided William Blake (1757-1827) (also an important poet), whose paintings illustrated his complex prophetic vision, and William Turner (1775-1851), who painted intense, dramatic landscapes which became his path to create pure forms of oceanic scenes making him the father of Abstract Figurative art in the first half of the 19th century.

Kamran Khavarani is the heir to Blake and Turner as a painter of a new artistic outlook that should be known as Abstract Romanticism. This resembles the declarations of art critics in the mid 20th century that described the art of the New York School Artists Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) as Abstract Expressionism. They shared an emphasis on the non-representational physicality of the painting and emotional engagement with the viewers. Khavarani's massive array of light and colors mixed with myth and poetic current bears the trace of motion and emotions. He often prefers bare hands to traditional instruments (brush, sticks or palette knife) to incorporate the art of painting into the work itself. He forms highly expressive movements and dimensional values to communicate inner impulses and the obscurity of mythology and poetry to the viewers of his art.