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Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Iranian, b. 1975
Zahra ZEINALI was born in 1975 in Tehran, Iran. From 2001 to 2004, she studied Fine arts at the Art and Architecture University in Tehran. At the same time, she taught visual arts to children during 15 years. Passionate about photography, she trained in photography in 2007 at the House of Photography in Tehran. In 2012, she moved to France. Confronted with her new life, her vision of the world changed. Since 2020, she has resumed training in photography at the EFET School in Paris. The Doll’s House “What can a true artistic temperament aspire to after a youth spent in Iran today? To flee the hassles, prejudices, restrictions, to open wide a window of freedom rich in potentialities that were believed for a long time inaccessible. Zahra Zeinali became a visual arts teacher for fifteen years. Her pupils are 6 to 12 years old. Drawing, sculpture, painting, model design, she taught them a great diversity of techniques, but above all to think and design freely by themselves, in an atmosphere of joyful creative disorder which, surprisingly, is tolerated by a careful hierarchy. Then she studied four years at the University of Art and Architecture in Tehran. When she arrived in France, after a brief abstract period inspired by the rhythms of nature, it was at the time of the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan attacks, which marked her deeply, to the point of lastingly darkening the ideal of emancipation and autonomy that she had projected on her stay in Paris. "There is no paradise on earth" she concluded with a melancholy smile. An old doll, bought for 1 euro in a storage room, triggers a click in her. The bitter imprint left by the Iranian confinement, the memory of her fifteen years of teaching visual arts to children, the loneliness of her Parisian exile, all this sentimental nebula found a plastic metaphor in the image of the doll. This is what these delicate earthenware faces evoke, often abused, abandoned, the childish innocence of their ingenuous gazes, a sort of strange absence from the world of the living, as if their attenuated life took place behind the mystery of a theater curtain, in the backcountry behind the scenes, on the fringes, on the borders of society and life. In each painting, the same little girl returns with a recurring dream, lost in an unfamiliar and hostile environment. The staging of the canvas or the drawing is subject to a learned disorder, slightly theatrical, evoking the happy chances of the bric-a-brac of the second-hand shops. Her unconditional admiration for Goya probably inspires her taste for chiaroscuro, for a vibrant and eventful material. Painting that touches the human and the sensitive. Memory of life and pictorial passion intertwine inextricably in an almost organic synthesis. She is a real painter.” Xavier Bureau
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Artist: Zahra Zeinali
Lost #1 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting portrait woman pink
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed on the back
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

White frogs Zahra Zeinali Contemporary painting Iranian woman artist art animal
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint and charcoal on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI “Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly ...
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Metamorphosis #10 Zahra Zeinali Contemporary art portrait Iranian artist black
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal and acrylic paint on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Intimate Zahra Zeinali 21st Century art Contemporary Iranian art yellow portrait
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right by the artist THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI “Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly according to ...
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

I had a dream Zahra Zeinali Contemporary art painting woman portrait Iranian art
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint and charcoal on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Untitled Zahra Zeinali Contemporary painting Iranian art woman doll red pink
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

The dark haired girl Zahra Zeinali 21st Century art Contemporary art Iranian art
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right by the artist THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI “Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly according to ...
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

We play roles Zahra Zeinali Contemporary painting Iranian artist circus clown
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI “Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly according to ...
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mask #1 Zahra Zeinali Contemporary painting Iranian woman artist art colour pink
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI “Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly according to ...
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Lost #6 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting child world doll pink
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed on the back
Category

2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

She closed her eyes #7 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting child world
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed on the back Zahra ZEINALI was born in 1975 in Tehran, Iran. From 2001 to 2004, she studied Fine arts at the Art and Architecture University in Tehran. At the same time, she taught visual arts to children during 15 years. Passionate about photography, she trained in photography in 2007 at the House of Photography in Tehran. In 2012, she moved to France. Confronted with her new life, her vision of the world changed. Since 2020, she has resumed training in photography at the EFET School in Paris. Zahra ZEINALI The Doll’s House “What can a true artistic temperament aspire to after a youth spent in Iran today? To flee the hassles, prejudices, restrictions, to open wide a window of freedom rich in potentialities that were believed for a long time inaccessible. Zahra Zeinali became a visual arts teacher for fifteen years. Her pupils are 6 to 12 years old. Drawing, sculpture, painting, model design, she taught them a great diversity of techniques, but above all to think and design freely by themselves, in an atmosphere of joyful creative disorder which, surprisingly, is tolerated by a careful hierarchy. Then she studied four years at the University of Art and Architecture in Tehran. When she arrived in France, after a brief abstract period inspired by the rhythms of nature, it was at the time of the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan attacks, which marked her deeply, to the point of lastingly darkening the ideal of emancipation and autonomy that she had projected on her stay in Paris. "There is no paradise on earth" she concluded with a melancholy smile. An old doll, bought for 1 euro in a storage room, triggers a click in her. The bitter imprint left by the Iranian confinement, the memory of her fifteen years of teaching visual arts to children, the loneliness of her Parisian exile, all this sentimental nebula found a plastic metaphor in the image of the doll. This is what these delicate earthenware faces evoke, often abused, abandoned, the childish innocence of their ingenuous gazes, a sort of strange absence from the world of the living, as if their attenuated life took place behind the mystery of a theater curtain...
Category

2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Rakhsh Zahra Zeinali 21st Century art Contemporary art Iranian artist girl
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right by the artist THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI “Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly according to ...
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Silent #2 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting child world doll
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed on the back
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Queen Zahra Zeinali 21st Century art Contemporary art portrait pink woman
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right by the artist THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI “Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly according to ...
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Adaptation #5 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century art Contemporary art Iranian art girl
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right by the artist THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI “Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly according to ...
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Shahrzad Zahra Zeinali 21st Century art Contemporary art Iranian art pink girl
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right by the artist THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI “Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly according to ...
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Small window in a black box Zahra Zeinali 21st Century art Contemporary art Iran
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right by the artist THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI “Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly according to ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

She closed her eyes Zahra Zeinali 21st Century art Contemporary art girl doll
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right by the artist THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI “Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly according to ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Lost #2 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting child world doll pink
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed on the back
Category

2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

REM #6 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting child world doll pink
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed on the back
Category

2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Lost #5 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting child world doll pink
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed on the back
Category

2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Mask #2 Zahra Zeinali Contemporary painting Iranian artist art animal pig blue
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint and charcoal on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI “Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Adaptation #4 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century art Contemporary art Iranian art girl
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right by the artist THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI “Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly according to ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Lost #3 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting child world doll pink
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed on the back
Category

2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Silent #4 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century iranian painting child world doll
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed on the back
Category

2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Waiting Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting child world doll
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed on the back
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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