Bahman Rezaei A Retrospective

Bahman Rezaei is a caricaturist, painter, illustrator and humorist poet, born in 1313. During his more than 6 decades of activity, he has always tried to turn caricature into a work of art and beyond depicting news and social issues. Rezaei, like other artists in this field, first started his collaboration with magazines and newspapers and his works were published in many prestigious publications, but his constant concern in the field of extending the possibilities of caricature to a work of art led to drawing a new path in life and his works. Hence, he has moved more towards painting styles in caricature. With his unceasing efforts in creating artwork and producing meaning, he was free from any framework and away from the historical stereotypes imposed on cartoonists, and he did not shy away from learning as much as possible at any point in time in response to the mental need to introduce new elements into his works. With special elegance, he brings what he has learned and added to his pen over the years, one after the other, in order to present a different world to the audience, and to complete his mission which is to develop cartoons into a work that goes beyond a Graphic Humor, based on news or a topic. His attention to humor in all elements has given dynamism and individuality to his works, and that is why Rezaei's field of imagination in his works is simple, thoughtful and thought-provoking at the same time. According to Rezaei, the satirist writes with humorous words and the cartoonist writes with lines - the difference between humor and seriousness is that humor is more serious and the goal of humor is to achieve social justice.