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Bulls Series (Ghav-ha)
Oil on cardboard · 70 × 100 cm · 2019
- Title
- Bulls Series (Ghav-ha)
- Series
- Bulls Series
- Year
- 2019
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 70 × 100 cm
- Artist
- Jalaleddin Mashmooli
- Provenance
- Directly from the artist's studio
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The Work
Ghav-ha · 2015–2019
The bull is the oldest working body of the Iranian village: labour, wealth, sacrifice and companionship compressed into one animal. Mashmooli paints it not as symbol but as presence — mass first, contour later.
Oil is pushed across cardboard and paper with palette knife and hand, leaving a hide of pigment that behaves like the animal's own. The smaller watercolour studies of the Yellow Cow trace the same subject at the speed of a sketch.
