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.”
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Artist: Zahra Zeinali
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Acrylic paint on canvas
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Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint and charcoal on canvas
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
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Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
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By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
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Hand-signed by the artist
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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
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
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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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Mask #1 Zahra Zeinali Contemporary painting Iranian woman artist art colour pink
By Zahra Zeinali
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Acrylic paint on canvas
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Hand-signed by the artist
THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI
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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
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She closed her eyes #7 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting child world
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
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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
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By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
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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
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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
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings
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By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
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“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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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
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2010s Contemporary Zahra Zeinali Portrait Paintings
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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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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 ...
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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
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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
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Paper, Acrylic
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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
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
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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
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Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Signed on the back
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