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Pencil on paper of Real Illusions I – The Presence of the Society, by AbulQasem Foushanji, Kabul, Afghanistan
By Rachel Schausfor suite101.comAugust 21, 2009 Part of Afghanistan’s culture preservation is to inform the world of the modern history of fine art in Afghanistan. With the destruction of…
AbulQasem Foushanji is an Afghan painter who was born in Kabul in 1987. He paints around the theme of “weakness and failure of the human body”.
Knife on paper and calligraphy of Looking for Light!, by Hamid Hemat, Kabul, Afghanistan
Oil color on paper of Fallen Tree in Jungle, by Hamid Hemat, Kabul, Afghanistan
It’s a tree so withered and broken that only a single scarred branch is still struggling heavenwards. Yet all life has not gone: a tiny leaf, green against the cerulean blue of the sky, stubbornly clings to a twig.