The Seven Trials of Esfandiar / Haft Khan-e Esfandiar Painting

Born in 1966 Tabriz, Iran . I’m teaching Persian literature and poetry. I like beautiful stories especially epics and enjoy the stories that are told so sweet. As a 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 his students, I happen to create Shahnameh projects in which I can teach ancient Persian literature in two forms: pictures and short stories. Each project i create include a book of Persian legend stories and a collection of Paintings related to the stories. I started to paint when decided to create the very first project called Minimal Shahnameh (the book and the paintings) with zero experience in painting. I painted 67 pieces all the same size and technique. It took me 2 years to finish the collection. Each painting related to a story. I display some of them here in Saatchiart. The book of “Minimal Shahnameh” which is Farsi/English edition contains all stories of the entire Shahnameh plus the images of the paintings. It is available on Amazon. I like the idea to link the paintings with the written content since it can help readers of any level review the short stories in less time while enjoying the vivid scenes of the stories and experiencing their epic, mythical atmosphere. This will continue in my next projects as well. At the moment I am busy with the second project which includes some very sweet stories about Rostam lineage and Aryans and the paintings related to them.