Wild Flowers – 1972 Oil Painting Artist M. Niazi
Manuchehr Niazi – Born in 1936, Tabriz, Iran – started painting in 1953, producing a whole range of works during these years, in Iran and abroad, as master painter in national and international levels.
All along his career, there was no moment of separation between him and art of painting. The objective, according to the painter, was the achievement of professionalism in the art, which artist continues to seek for his life and doesn’t see any end to it. To him, artist’s thought and imagination go through stages comparable to the conception and growth of an embryo and birth of infant.
Niazi is loyal to his particular technique and tries to create independence and without limiting himself to it. Working outside of the boundaries of limited technique is considered as keeping pace with the nature and the times.
Naturalism is the most prominent aspect of Niazi’s works and artistic creativity. He looks for and selects his art from forms among the natural forms. To complete some of his works, he use collage as supplementary technique and going into undisturbed nature when in tranquility, and adopting collage when in moments of eruption and creation. In his works, nature is simplified to the extent that looking at one of his landscapes means surrendering oneself totally to the fantasy.
A number of his works have been created under direct inspiration from classic musicians as Beethoven, Verdi, Mozart and Johannes Straus.
This painting originally came from the collection of Elton Weston. who died in 2011. We have 2 other paintings from the same collection.
Elton Lawrence Weston was born January 25, 1932 in Gibbon, Nebraska. He was a fighter pilot. He was first stationed at Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Next, he went to Thule Airbase in northern Greenland. He was in the Air Defense Command and flying interceptor planes over the frozen arctic North Pole region. While in Greenland he lived in a well insulated ice house and flew the F-89 known as the “Lead Sled.” Elton returned to the States and was then stationed at Paine Field near Seattle, Washington. In the 1960″s he was stationed at Hahn Airbase, Germany, with the 496th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. At the age of 37, he volunteered to go to Vietnam. He joined the 559th Tactical Fighter Squadron, known as the “Billy Goat Squadron” at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. Elton flew the newest USAF fighter bombers, the F-4’s in 176 combat missions for close air support with Army and Marine soldiers such as “Troops in contact, friendly forces being overrun, or supply convoys spotted by friendly forces.” After Elton’s tour in Vietnam, he was an instructor for 9 months teaching about close air support at Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Elton was selected to be the Air Attaché to Afghanistan and piloted a twin engine airplane, the C-131 Embassy airplane out of Kabul, Afghanistan. He worked for the Ambassador and flew missions throughout central Asia from June 1972 to July 1974. In 1975, Elton retired at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel after 22 years in the Air Force and moved back to Nebraska, close to his family. His awards include the Air Force Commendation Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 10 Oak Clusters and the Vietnam Vietnamese Service medal with a Bronze Star. His hobbies included flying, painting and writing of his experiences in the Air Force.
Wild Flowers – Floral Still life- Oil Painting by listed artist M. Niazi
Large Nature Winter Scene Oil Painting – Artist Manuchehr Niazi
