This contemporary artwork features a minimalist and geometric composition. The dominant colors are various shades of blue, gray, and beige, creating a serene and muted atmosphere. The painting depicts a simple interior scene with a hanging lamp illuminating an object on a table, presumably a book or document. The overall style is characterized by clean lines, flat shapes, and a reduced palette, suggesting a focus on formal elements rather than detailed realism. The artist's intention may be to evoke a sense of calm introspection or to explore the interplay of light and shadow within a domestic setting. ...
Sofia Pashaei works with oils on linen to create incredibly atmospheric domestic scenes. With a confidence in use of colour which parallels the work of the Expressionists and The Blue Rider Group, Pashaei wields her brush to each canvas with immense precision. What has shifted however, is that the figures in her pieces are women enjoying other women’s company, contrasting the male lens seen in Degas’s paintings of women bathing. The mood is one of total adoration for female intimacy and companionship. Her painting style is illustrative and graphic, crafting enticing tableaux in bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens. A spotlight might highlight the passing of a lemon, or the reaching for a glass of wine between friends. Functioning like candid photographs, each painting brings about a peaceful moment in time which has been carefully distilled by Pashaei. Absurdist details make their way onto the canvas, for example, a bathtub may split into a table the scale of limbs might be slightly out of kilter, or a goose may wander from outside in one painting, into a room of another work. This humour imbues each painting with a charm that is seen cohesively as they operate as an ode to female friendship.
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