Shahla Rouzati interview with Parsforte Magazine’s reporter

Would you mind introducing yourself to Parsforte’s readers?

Salute to the dear friends and the good readers of Parsforte magazine. My name is Shahla Rouzati, designer, painter, and art mentor.

 

You have been educating in art, and please explain when did you explore your potentiality in art? How and when did you play an active role in art?

Some small events in my life made the way clear, and a gift flourished my talent. my brother bestowed a watercolor and a drawing notebook when I was a child. My hobby was painting and play-acting with friends and taking advantage of my watercolor to make up their faces. In high school, I chose science, but I couldn’t create a connection with books, so I decided to join the fine arts school. Artwork created immediate enthusiasm in my mind, and I was happy to continue painting to offer the best version of my abilities. Educating in Art School in 1985, I am occupied by painting.

 

What are the inspirational elements of your works due to the significance of the idea?

I believe that the artistic idea looks like a chain of different connotations. The idea in most artists’ works is inspired by personal life and the environment. each artist benefits from unique sensations and viewpoints toward life, social, financial, and political issues that affect the process of ideation and artwork creation.  What influences society to bring back the happiness of life is the mysterious power of art and the development of ideas and thoughts of an artist. Emotions, environment, personal life, and my investigation are four leading elements in my works.

 

What are the topics and events of your art?

My paintings illustrate my personal life, and the topics are not complicated in that they live along with my life. Some works explore social crisis, and some display my interest in the historical legacy, traditional art, arabesque traceries, flower, bird, calligraphy, and the Safavid and Qajar era’s ornamental painting. I believe they shine on the chest of Iranian art.

 

What is your style? Does it change over time?

Artistic style refers to a cluster of works with connections and aligned relationships repeated during history or a specific era and used by a significant number of artists. Every art style signifies a particular historical age. My works follow the exact alignments and inner connection; however, I cannot call them style. I am interested in many styles, including expressionism and social realism, while experiencing various styles and techniques.

 

What are your techniques and materials?

I pay significant attention to materials and technique selection; for instance, my feeling at the moment of painting and the practical techniques to depict my works benefit from high importance. Painters use visual elements like line, form, color, texture, atmosphere, light, and movements on a two-dimensional surface to display their feeling and intensify beauty, harmony, and alignment.

The chief techniques of my works are oil paint, color water, acrylic, pastel, collage, gouache, ink, and digital tools. I use acrylic to implement my works at present.

 

As a member of the assembly of Isfahan painters, please explain its role in the development of art and art-loving.

Human things are made of a union to be present in society, so gathering artists with similar goals and interests in the painters’ assembly could be efficient and pleasurable. The invention and creativity in artworks roots in the academies and art assemblies. The art value depends upon the cultural production aspects, so the assemblies play an undeniable role in this way. Art events by painters’ assembly guarantee the art’s power to create a unique legacy in human society. The activities and goals of the painters’ assembly include developing painting, supporting visual artists in Isfahan, ideation and invention, implementing advanced art workshops and art exhibitions. People are dealing with life issues and problems and suffer from monotony and rooting life. Although the financial crisis epidemic is tragic, the potential power of art can flourish talents. In such a society, artworks and art assemblies remind us of the beautiful life soul. Art and culture are soul food and save humans and humanity.

 

You have been teaching in many schools; please explain the encouraging and disappointing elements in artists and audiences, respectively.

An ungraceful society that does not appreciate art and artist will guide human beings into frightening darkness. The artists’ viewpoint will be more pleasant to the world and future provided to the presence of an active art current in life and caring about the artworks and artists’ sensitive mind. It encourages people to see artwork and artists as hardworking.

 

Finally, explain your new style and movement in painting. Is your fantastic painting on the carpet a technique or style? What are the motivational elements?

I appreciate your describing my works with impressive words and am glad to hear that. I practiced various techniques and styles before 2016, and I tried to create different works. Searching to find new styles took me toward investigating feminine clothing impressions in the Qajar era and its historical identity, which was repeatedly practiced in Iranian carpets. Iranian people have been utilizing carpets to cover the floor. Each house is decorated with these impressions, and the unconscious mind cleaves to our country’s handicrafts, particularly Iranian handmade carpet, which is known universally. My interest implied childhood when my father drew arabesque traceries and tazhib patterns on papers, and I was unbelievably tracing his mind-blowing hand movements. The final product was splendid and admirable to make me more interested in carpet designs and benefit from them in my works. Blending style with painting paved the way to creating a new and unique technique that attracted others’ admiration. Utilizing the traditional impressions with personal memories and life events helped express my viewpoints and create connections with audiences. The new style and the brilliant background of Iranian designs and contemporary events create a chance to develop a multidimensional and unique circumstance. So I acquired more creativity and freedom of speech in the creation of new works.

Thanks for the time provided by Parsforte Magazine to share my views.

Sincerely yours

Rouzati