When I was in Vienna I did a post about the details in Bosch’s Last Judgment, and so here I’m doing a post about the details in
@simorgh3 (Ali Banisadr)’s recent series of painting which were on view at
@olneygleason in a wonderful show that closed yesterday called “Noble/Savage.” I’m pretty sure Ali is a bit tired of the comparisons, but both he and Bosch play with a concept of composition in which the small moralistic/mythological figures are largely divorced from the overall composition of the larger painting—they form little nodes of activity that are narratives in their own right, and if they are incorporated into the wider painting, it’s as part of an abstract composition—I’d posit this as in distinction to Bruegel the Elder for example, or Poussin. Anyways. I had a wonderful time finding these figurative little collections of brushstrokes within the wider maelstrom that Ali creates.
