“For me, Van Gogh is not only a famous artist and a genius but a way of life. He is not a frustrated and distressed model but a symbol of love, humanity, and altruism.”

-------Alireza Karimi Moghaddam



Born in 1975, Alireza Karimi Moghaddam earned a master’s degree in Graphic Arts from Azad University in Iran and now lives in Lisbon, Portugal. He works with the art faculty of the University of Lisbon and the National Society of Fine Arts.



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Since he was a teenager, Mohadam has immersed himself in Vincent Van Gogh’s life and art. Over the past thirty years, he has won numerous awards, cartoons, and illustrations that convey Van Gogh’s life as “a symbol of beauty and love, and inspiration for the future.”



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He uses van Gogh’s painting style and divides his creative ideas into different elements and recombines them, most notably symbolizing Van Gogh himself as the main character in the paintings full of Van Gogh elements, which add refreshing touches.



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The modern poet Bian Zhilin’s classic line in Fragment


When you watch the scenery from the bridge,
The sightseer watches you from the balcony.
The bright moon adorns your window,
While you adorn another’s dream.


（translated by Yang Xianyi and Dai Naidie）


It is full of poetic beauty and philosophy, but it is also true.



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Vincent Van Gogh, who has painted numerous famous paintings, has unexpectedly become the source of creative inspiration for many artists in recent years. Van Gogh and his famous artworks have also become classic creative symbols, which seem to echo the Fragment in an artful way.



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Illustrations in Van Gogh style touches, are also many before, painting for van Gogh deliberately. Instead, in Ali Reza’s works, he intimates feeling with a surprise, surprise with a little moved, as if living in the same starry sky with van Gogh, which is wonderful!


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