About
Minimal Shahnameh, Combination of literature and visual art.
This project include: A book plus collection of 67 pieces of paintings, by Persian author and painter, Jabbar Farshbaf.
The book of Minimal Shahnameh, include short stories of the entire Persian Shahname Ferdowsi along with images of Shahnameh paintings. Each story visualized by a painting. Linking images with the written content makes readers enjoying the vivid scenes of the stories while reading.
The paintings are titled as each story of the book. The artist’s exceptional drawing technique and his uses of naive colors and writing the name of some special characters on the canvas makes each piece of painting more story telling style and at the same time completely modern and unique in this genre and category.
The painting are all the same size and technique, 100×120 cm, Acrylic on canvas.
What artist says
I am Jabbar Farshbaf. I’m teaching Persian literature and poetry. I like beautiful stories especially epics and enjoy the stories that are told so sweet.
As an Iranian researcher who is interested in Persian ancients and legends and as a teacher who wants to make difficult long and old texts, short and easy to understand for students, I happen to create Shahnameh Projects in which I can teach ancient Iranian literature in two forms: pictures and short stories. Each project i created include a book of Persian legend stories and a collection of paintings related to the stories.
I am also a self-taught painter, I started to paint when decided to create the very first project called Minimal Shahnameh.
At the moment I am busy with the second project which includes some very sweet stories about Rostam lineage and Aryans.