Pure Poetry: Artist Parviz Payghamy's Poetic Voice Shines through in His Abstract Landscape Works

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The art of Parviz Payghamy is poetry, woven in vibrant color and melodic composition, rather than verses and words. The rhythmic curves and rich patterns of the Iranian artist"s abstract landscapes tell the story of life's fleeting beauty in a form of visual poetry that speaks to viewers of all walks of life.

"I do with paintings what poets do with words," Payghamy explains. "My paintings are visualizations of life's happiness and sadness, and all of these emotions are translated by means of lines, shape, color and form. A picture is made, and that is how the artist communicates his inner self with the viewer."

So inspired are his abstract landscapes with the rhythmic art form that Payghamy was dubbed "the poet painter" by his friends and colleagues at Tehran University, where he received his …