Bita Vakili

Many years ago I met Bita Vakili by accident. It was a typical story of Email writings and a one sided infatuation from my part. She lived in Tehran and I was in LA soon about to make my trip to there after a life time of living in the states. I do remember a terribly hot after noon sitting in her atelier sweating a river as she offered me refreshments. The infatuation died probably that very day in that basement where she painted.
Since then I see the name Bita Vakili everywhere I turn on the net and her paintings has become something of a trendy nature it seams. There are a few things that I have to point out because it seams to be a common denominator with all these so called Modern Artist.
I won’t really get into the philosophy of any of this simply because I’m tired of doing it and besides to understand logics and reasoning of art one first needs the educated listeners and with all due respect to today’s living folks there simply aren’t any left. Don’t feel too bad if you’re reading this. If it’s any consolation I can promise you with much confidence that you won’t ever find a professor of art or any so called connoisseurs of art that could define the meaning of the word Realism. Don’t act shocked! Look, it’s a simple thing. One who graduates in arts and in art history at the Sorbonne that’s probably one of the better places in the world to study art would not have a notion of what art is. That's because the very books they studied never thought them a thing. To write a book about different schools of art you first have to be a philosopher so you can understand the philosophy aspect of it. Then, you’d need to be a painter, so you can put it all down on canvas to be able to understand and to touch what you say or else none of it would come out right. Then, you need to be a psychologist to be able to understand the psychology of art otherwise art is meaningless to you. Now you need to be a sociologist. To not understand sociology one has nothing to put on canvas. There’s probably a few other things to be accomplished to be able to write a book on art but at the end one certainly needs to be a strong writer so all of which one has learned can be put to words. Now, I’d like to hear the name of a single book about art that the author was even half of what I just described. The truth of it is that you just won’t find a book like this. The truth is that no book about art, no university that teaches art has ever anything valuable to say about art mainly for the reason I just explained. Now since art just became something of an orphan just about anyone can stick anything on its forehead and give it any desired attributes to mould it to the purposes of their exploitations. Now rtists like Bita Vakili can simply grow like wild weeds from every little whole in our planet.
This is where flies like Bita Vakili and her kind of so called artists start flying around the rotten but ever suit fruit of art. Now all that it takes is a large basement under some expensive house in (shahrake gharb) paid for by daddy of course, a big enough ego, a semi nostalgic life, an expensive website with the longest biography and a bunch of none sense that most usually end in spirituality is what one needs to be an artist. Speaking of which, thank god for Dr HOLAKOOEE who came out of no where and told all Iranian women that their love affair with their so called spirituality really is their mental illness and nothing more. (Abe pAki ro ru daste hamashun rikht~!) It’s amazing though, you won’t ever find a single website of these modern artists that you won’t find piles and piles of these ridiculous poetic quotations. Well wall would they put there? Something has to create some diversion from the piece of shit that the poor viewer has to look at. Quotations for god’s sake! It’s amazing that any idiot that fails chemistry and get into a war with their parents now opens a site, wipes up something on canvas and types quotations after quotations. Seriously, go to Bita Vakili’s page and tell me if the paragraph she has there makes any sense at all. http://www.beyondpersia.org/index.php/artists/details/bita_vakili/
Here, take a look at another one parasite of art
http://www.rassouli.com/

You know,,,the emptier the inside of a bag, the more covered with glitter on the outside. All of that aside, for heaven's sake, the very reason we have art is so we won't have to pile shit loads of quotations around it. Helloo????????????????????? a painting is a whole BOOK! DUUUUUUHHH?! Oh yes,,,for poeple who know how to paint that is,..never mind!
It’s as if no one finds a shorter wall than the "Art Wall" to climb from. Any and every looser becomes an accomplished artist. Of course vultures like the art promoters also have a hand in this. You ever seen the face of one of these pests? Go and meet one and believe me when I say they won’t have to open their mouth for their true selves to come out. Oh mother Russia, where are your communist leaders to save us all by sending these parasites all to Siberia so they can repay their debts to society?
Well, these few lines were only typed for the one in ten thousand who can comprehend where I come from.
I think people like Bita Vakili are criminals. Hey,…you… you that one among ten thousand! You know know what I’m talking about I know. As for the rest of you ….. oh just shut up and go be an Artist~! Websites are cheap nowadays.

I won't expect for a none Iranian to make much ofthis photo but if you're Iranian and around my age (40) i I think this photo moves you the same way it moves me.

I'm not too sure just once every how often a new story of Tin Tin would come out, was it maybe once a month? What I do remember is how I would loose myself completly when my buddy our upstares neighbour would give me the news of the store carrying the new Tin Tin. How I would shake my father like a money tree telling him what I needed the money for. How we would run up the street to the store where they had stakes of the new arrived comic book piles up right on the floor next to the entry doors. How I can still remember the smell of the new covers. We would first sit and study the cover only for hours as if the covers gave away all its inner secrets.

I wish so much to get a hold of an other Tin Tin and jump right onto my bed laying on my tummy with my Tin Tin open in front of me. I really wonder if it would still feel the same. I wonder if I can once more loose myself into a much warm and secure place where the only worry would be weather to be done with the book before lunch or not. I eally would want to live just one more day of my life with nothing in my heart and mind but the exitment of flipping through yet an other page of Tin Tin and Milou.....

DAVOOD ROUSTAEI

Some time ago at a friend's house I met a charlatan by the name of Davood Roustaei. I remember having opened the door as the bell rang and here came this guy in a semi bull fighting costume with his hand on his tummy like Napoleon Bonaparte. He had pushed one eye brow up in the sky and almost walked in half way side ways. As he took these silly steps! Behind him, very much like a poodle dog walked some really cheap and sexy "Miss Tits on the Ritz" character called Shaghayegh. You know? the so called famous singer. I remember thinking to myself "Oh brother.." I don't want to go over how the crowd responded as the bull fighter and his female cow walked in, it was quit pathetic. Miss tits on the ritz Shaghayegh sat on the tip of some chair and perfected her sitting pose and froze there for a good 45 minutes or so, showing off her probably fake breasts to all the poor family members who were there for my friend's birthday. To my amazement the father of this poor being was also there at the party. He's some guy who supposedly owns an Iranian TV station or something. He had been invited with the other vultures that were officially the promoters of this Davood Roustaei character. One of the highlights of that party that stayed in my mind was the comments that the father was making about his appetite for "young chicks NOT OVER 18." I thought to myself, here,... he's the one to blame for the crumbled inner self of his poor sorry excuse of a daughter. As all the guys went GOOGOOGAAGAA over the loose chick What interested me was knowing just which whole had the crazy matador crawled out from. This is a guy who paints with his eyes closed and uses his fingers to paint. Ok, it only took 700 years for humanity to perfect the painting brush but never mind that insignificant fact. His pride and joy is the billions of photos that he's taken with any celebrity he could probably find and this it really shows in every photo. I encourage you to check it out. Oh yes, his works are for endless amounts of dollars and he paints for Vatican and the presidents! Get this please, KRIPTO REALISM,...yes you heard me right, KRIPTO realism is the new philosophy of painting that he has created. Right out of a superman movie in case you didn't get it. I can't help but to remember that famous event that took place in the old soviet union during Xruchev. for those of you who don't know it, there was a grand exhibition once made for the honour of Xruchev once. as he walked in, he noticed a statue that almost looked human but had a very modern crumbled face that didn't look anything like a face of a human being. He asked to see the artist that had made the statue. They brought this woman and introduced her to him. He asked the woman, what is this? She replied, this is me! Xruchev asks, do you look like this? or would you wish that you looked like this piece? she babbled on with her modern descriptive words and she hadn't finished her speech when suddenly Xruchev orders his officials to take her and sentence her to two years of hard work in Siberia so she can quickly repay that which her society had invested in her so she could produce art work for his nation. I have to say that as an artist I can understand that with my every fiber of being.
These days I think the Shaghayegh chick walks behind some other gay looking Iranian pop singer now making daddy proud I'm certain and she's moved on from the Bonaparte seen. As for the matador,...well,.... lets just say there was no one in the Iranian artistic community to feel offended and belittled at his presence. You want to see what he's up to these days,......

As an artist I don't concern myself much with the Shaghayegh "chick" as daddy would put it or miss "Claudia Lynx" ash she ridiculously calls herself since parasites like her are everywhere in every society but I do have entangled thoughts in regards to this other microbe Davood the stuge. As a great Iranian painter once said, Art is the symbol of the utmost manifestation of the human psyke. To stain it is to tarnish the very conciousness of the inner self.

MY RECENT PAINTING

HERE'S MY RECENT PAINTING. I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT.

My recent art show at Blick

I had a blast at Blick art store where I did a demo for some viewers.

Yek dAstAn az 1999.

hamun miz, hamun nassimeh bahareee ba hamun sedayeh ab va hamun ehssassehyakh kardaneh royeh muhayeh poshteh kenareh dast. asheh parvin khanumambehhamun ghaliziyeh, tanha cheezee keh hamun nist, hesseh khoshee hast kehba nigah kardaneh beh varaghehayeh naghasheem behem midad,......emroozhamaro roo computeram too mashinam gozashtam vakhtee piadeh shodam, umadamasstinamo ta konam beda bala keh hamun nassimeh bahareee zad zireh hameyehvaragheham va tu yeki az in khiabunayeh far-eeyeh westwood BLVD hamaropakhsho pala kard. duneh duneh yeh karamo nigah dashteh budam, masalan bayeh khodkareh talA zireh har kudumeshuno commentary neveshteh budam, dorostbeh sabkeh leonardo:0))) dussseshun dashtam, karayeh kucheek budand, bishtarzanhayeh lokht az rooyeh tarh hayeh mokhtalefi keh osstad peyman har ruuzbehem mideh. dusseshun dashtam yeh jurayee, mikhasstam yeh cheezee dorostkonam keh hamashuno nigah daram tush keh vakhtee keh bozorgshodam...:0)))))) betunam hanuz dashteh bashameshun,.......hamashraft,...beh ghadreee narahat shodam keh hatta bad az inkeh chand tashuno azru zamin vardashtam neshesstam dobareh too mashino beheshun negahkardam,...tA khordegeehayeh kuchulu,.......az hich cheezee bishtar az takhordegeehayeh kuchulu beezar nistam tu zendegi,....chera? mageh hameyehzendegiyeh mano ta khordegeehayeh kuchulu tashkil nemidand? pass chera inhameh vassvass? hamaro dobareh ba bee rahmeeyeh tamam rikhtam dobarehvassteh hamun khiabun! mesleh inkeh hame cheezamo azam gereftehbudan,.....hameh cheezam khob azam gerefteh shodeh bud,...ba yeh bad, ba yehbadeh bahari:0) pisheh khodam tA khodeh sandevich furusheeyeh attary fekrkardam, tamameh 4 daghigheh o nimesho! ta touleh rah, hbeh joz kharabshodegeeha sareh raham cheezee nadidam, mashinee keh kenaram park shodehbud, poshtesh cheghadr bad jur khordeh bud beh yeh masheeneh digeh,in,...un,...har chee keh dorovaram didam hmash sadameh khordegi ha bud, chehjaleb.......pisheh khodam fekr kardam,...cheh jaleb keh tu yeh lahzeh inhameh tarzeh dido fekram avaz shod va khod beh kkhod joz kharab shodegee hava az beyn raftegi ha cheezee digeh natunesstam bebeeenam. pisheh khodamsayee kardam keh yeh cheezeee tu hameyeh inha peyda konam beh behem energyyeh ino bedeh keh betunam faghat beram tu attary besheeenamo bar nagardamkhuneh.nemidunam khodamo akhar ghaneh kardam ya na,.....vali beh khodam goftam kehhameyeh ina tuyeh khodeh maneh, hameyeh ina az khodeh man miad,....chehruuzhayee keh nayumadeh hanuz va cheh karhayee keh hanuz tamum nashodeh. behroozeh ghablam tu studio fekr kardam,.......cheghadr khub keh injureehameyeh karayee keh kardeh budam az beyn raft, vahshatnak tareen kar barayehyeh naghash vakhteeyeh keh osstad beh hameyeh un rizekareehayee keh kardionakardee negahee mikoneo migeh pAkesh konid! hatta nemizareh khodet in karobekonee, dasstmaleh khasheneto var midareo hameyeh bumo dobareh sefisokassif mikoneh. az donia seer mishee,.......va barayeh man, cheh barehavaleh khuubi, cheh dassti behtar az dasteh yeh nassimeh baharee keh hameyehkaramo azam begeereh va begeh dobareh? khoshhal shodam,....yeho yeh shureebarayeh yeh cheezeee tu delam pyda kardam,.....kheyli khoshhal shodam.
do jaleseh pish avalin kareh rangeh roghanamo beh tamameh manA sh shurukardam. dafehateh pish, karhayeh khodam ham roghan bud, vali hameesheh bayeh rang, ghahveyeee yeh sukhteh. tarzo sheeveyeh khodam ro ham bekarmipordam, ba rangeh roghan tarahee mikardam jayeh rang zadan, layeh hayehkheyli raghigh, kheyli khoshk, khyli kam, rooyeh hamdigeh, yeki bad az yeki,engar keh medad kar mikonam jayeh rangeh roghan. sujeyee ro ham keh shuurukardam beh vahshatnakeeyeh khodeh sabk bud. yeh aksseh goldun ba yeh moshtgoleh rangarang. az in vahshatnaktaro bee mani tar mageh misheh naghasheee?az hamun sAateh avvalesh azA gerefteh budam. in ranga yeki bad az yeki digehmiraft rouyeh bumo har sanieh kAro vahshatnaktar mikard. adam mituneh inhameh rango bardareh bezareh ru ghalamo bemaleh beh bum? dastam ham mAlehkhodam nabud, digeh dashtam gereyh mikardam. har kee miumad yeh nigaheemindakht migoft,...ohhh, goooooodddd, gooood jobbb,......az in commenthavahshatnak tar? mikhasstam begam beheshun licheh kassifeh ko,ssteh madarehshoma ham bar labAneh khod va khAharetun! vali jash ba cheshmayeh geryun olabayeh nimeh khandun beheshun vahshatzadeh nigah mikardam. khodA ro shokrkeh hamisheh chanda az aksshayeh karhayeh khodam hamisheh pisham hasst.barghee beh har bahaneyee dareshun miaramo mizarameshunjeloshoooon,....complimAneh vagheyee vakkhtee hasst keh dahaneshun vamimuneh va beh khodeshun in ejazaro nemidan keh hatta began ohhh gooooooddd,gooodd joooobb,,.....unjasst keh labkhandeh vahshatnakam tabdil beh yeh nopusskhandeh Gag-i misheh:0)ruzeh avalesh vali vaghean ba cheshmayeh geryun raftam khuneh. bad az studioraftam ghanari neshesstamo ta tunesstam ba hamun medad ruu badanAyeh khodamkar kardam, kami behem aramesh dad. vali un rangayeh goh o karee keh engaryeh bacheyeh shish saleh anjam dadeh ta khodeh zireh lahafam donbalamumad!!!fekr konam hatta natunessstam un shab ba khodam var beram,...cheezeevasseh birun umadan nabud :)vali harfayeh in baba osstad peymad dar eyneh hal tu guusham bud. bavaretmisheh dafeh pish jayeh osstad behesh goftam uussstA?LLLOOOLLLbeh khoda,....akheh baram yekio ostad seda kardan kheyli sakhteh, ta halanakardam inkaro aslan tassalot beh in kalameh nadaram, shayad tu fekre samadbudam nemidunam vali yeho dad zadam vassateh studio goftam usssA yeh lahzehlotfan!!!!in uusssA yeh ma, ruzeh avval keh ma in naghasheero rangasho shuru kardeeem,vakhteh khuneh raftan keh ressid too daftaresh azam posssed keh nazaretcheeyeh? chee fekr mikoneee? manam aslan namardee nakardam, ta mitunesstamdelamo khali kardam. digeh nazdik bud Gagliostro ro unleash konamo bezaramaslan un sohbat koneh jayeh khodam,...bad bakhteeeo tensity_o assabani budanaz cheshmam birun mizad!!!!aval yeh labkhand zad, yeh labkhandeh kheyli ajibghareeeb, yeh jurayee engar ziadee khoshhal shod. bad khoshhalisho tashreehkard. goft keh kamtar kasssi bad az shuru-eh kareh avalesh hamcheen halateeebehesh dassst mideh. man khodam avalin karamo keh shuru kardam mareeezshodam,marizam kard, oftadam, dashtam az beyn miraftam,.......in neshunmideh keh shoma ba vujudetun kar mikoneeed, ba assAbetun kar mikoneeed, batak takeh selul hayeh badanetun,........in neshun dahandeyeh ineh keh shomahonarmandeh bessiar khubee khaheed shod!!!!!mikhasstam bezanam tusareshshshshs!!!!!!
ruzeh badesh keh diruz bud, kalleh sahar baz khodamo jeloyeh in bumehvahshatnak peyda kardam. ranga hanuz beh hamun vahsheee yee behhem nigahmikardano behem mikkhandidan. ba nahayateh beeesharmeee o bee khialeee vapor ruuuyeee baz neshesstam jelsoh. sepideh dokhtareh keh kenaram ruuyehziba tareen assbha kar mikard baz shuuru kard beh in bumeh lanati nigahkardan,.....ozA tense taram bud, chon dagheeghan rafteh bud khanum tukalleyeh shahin agha va saligheyeh ishun ro dozdideh bud va rafteh budkhareed va dagheeghan lebasseeero pusheedeh bud keh agha shahinkhoshkhoshanesh misheh vakhtee mibinatesh. yeh pirhaneh sefido sadeh,crisp,.....yeh damaneh khakesstaree, az un jensseh gangsterhayeh 1930,kehkhat khatayeh sefeeedtar ruuush kassst, ba jurab hayeh nyloniyeh siah kehazolehayeh poshteh payeh khanum ro hessabee gaz zadani kardeh budand!nemidunam vazeh in hamkelassiyeh ma tense tar kardeh bud halo ahvaleh maroya in bumeh madar beh khatA! khoda ro shokr keh in jakesh shohardareh,....digeh halam beham khodeh az zaneh shohar dar!!!!dardeh sareshun vamuzi gareeshun az har jakesheh digeyeee bishtareh,...manam beh andazeh kafeejayeh danduno gaz poshteh gusham daram keh do bar rajeh beh yeh cheezeeefekr konam!!!!!!ineh keh hessabee zadam poshtesho shuru kardam beh hamungohee keh jalesseh ghablesh mikhordam!!!!!yeh etefaghatee belekhareh bad azchand saat oftad!!!style, aslan style man nabud, vali kam kam aghallan dasstmaleh khodam shodeh bud, yeh jurayee hamun karayee ro mikardam keh khodambahashun un ashnayee yeh hezar salaro dashtam. badam nayumad akharesh azhamash. kar ziad dareh hanuz, valikollan badam nayumad!akhareh kellasss usssA baz umad vayssstad jeloyeh in kareh bacheguneyeh ma.kar hayeh digaran ro mididam, va beh khodam migoftam hishkudum az in olaghaaslan controli beh shiveyeh kareshun nadaran, hich kuduk karayee ro kehmistunam bekonamofekr nemikonam tavanayeesho dashteh bashand, vali ba inhal,...faghat kolayeh man passeh marekeh bud. faghat in bumeh naghasheeeyehman.nigash mikardam, zol zadeh budam tu cheshash, faghatzol mizad behnaghasheeeyeh man,....bad az chandee zol zadanash beh surateh manam yehdassti mizado dobareh mirafdt ru bum. porseed azam chee fekr mikonam,....taumadam javabesho bedam, yeh soal umad tu saram keh ba nahayateh bee adabijayeh javabesh azash porsseeedam. ostad,...chera mikhandddid?????????bedune talaf kardaneh vakhtee va ba nahayateh meyl, goft, tA behal kassironadashtam keh ba avvalin karesh hamcheen esstedadi ro neshun bedeh eh man,tu karesh nahayateh tassallot ro neshun bedeh. barikallah,....sad afarin!!!
khandam gerefteh bud,.....areh,...baz mikhasstam bezanam tu saresh!!!!

SHABUN BI MOKH AND MOSSADEGH

Here's a photo of the murderous child molester "Shabun Bi Mokh" and next to it a photo of what's left of the great Mossadegh in the Shah's court after nationalizing the Iranian oil "his crime".

What is realism?

What do you think of oil paintings that look like photographs? Leave me your comments.