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In the name of God

My goals to create his website:

        My name is M. Ali Amoukarami I was born in Tehran (the Capital of IRAN.) My interest in art goes back to my childhood. I have my M.D. and I have been working as a medical doctor since I graduated. I love all kind of arts and I believe the most valuable thing in life is found in art. They said: “Art was created on top of pearl.” I know treatment as a kind of art.

        In 1984, I started drawing course at Kamal-lol-molk art school, while I was in grade 11 at Alborz high school. The art school was directed by deceased artist Hossein Sheikh, one of the students of famous artist “Mohammad Ghaffari” who has been called Kamal-lol-molk, and I learned drawing with artist Saeed Broumand. In 1986, I got the admission for medical school and of course I continued artistic works beside my studies.

        In 1986, I got to know calligraphy under the care of Mr. Mohammad-Zaman Farasat in the township of Babol, North city of IRAN. In 1987, I attended in art exhibition for medical student – painting section – and got to know two of the most well-known calligraphers of Babol, Mr. Mehdi Pourvatan and Mr. Kamran Kouhestani, and later they became of my best friends. Since calligraphy is involved with literature, poem and painting, it makes me feel a deep tendency to the poems of famous poets of my territory, IRAN. So I read most of the complete works of these poets in my leisure time. The effects of these poems and my own interest came together and makes me compose poems. I read my first poem in the “Night of poem” for students in Babol city in front of Mr. Mehrdad Avesta and Mr. Hamid Mosadegh (Two famous poets.)

        Then later the deep connection between poem and music, guided me to another kind of art in IRAN which was music. I started listening to the heavenly voices of honourable Artists like, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Gholam-hossein Banan, Adib Khansari, Mahmoudi Khansari, Abdolvahab Shahidi, Akbar Golpaygani, Shahram Nazeri and other Masters of noble and traditional music of IRAN and it makes me fall in love with music and I felt I need to play myself. So I learned playing Setar (a kind of traditional music instrument) with my dear friend Mr. Mehrdad Zarini who is a skilled artist in playing Tanbour. Then I was learning water-color painting in a private institute and also Mr. Enayatolah Nazari nouri (sometimes) and In the meantime I started to learn calligraphy with Mr. Esmaeel Nikbakht at the Iranian Calligraphers Committee. Later on through my friend I got to know one of the musical groups of choir at Arasbaran Academy and I learned Solfege, for 2 years. We had a group concert for ten nights at that academy. I remember a period of time that I spent 5 days a week on art works, each day for one art and that is one of my best period of time that I enjoy remembering it. I put on some artistic works of my teachers :

Calligraphy : Mr. Esmaeel Nikbakht

 

 

Water Color : Mr. Enayatolah Nazari Nouri  

 What I mentioned above is to show some of my extreme attachment to art and that’s why I decided to design this website. I have to say that another art I really like is computer science. I tried to learn web designing on my own (HTML) and spent enough time to design this website in a simple way.

        What motivated me design this website for Mr. Mohammad Karami :

        As I mentioned before my extreme interest to art since childhood made me go for it and the first person who I found to impress me a lot was Mr. Mohammad Karami. Since my childhood any time I was ready to accompany my dad going to artist’s place and staring at his works.

 

 

 

  

 

I believe that the artistic characteristic of Mr. Karami, his generosity and his artistic works are all factors which motivated me.

        Since my childhood I always called him dear uncle because my father called him the same way. Gradually, an extreme connection was created between me and him. Although, believed far from each other but I always felt him close in my heart. For a couple of years I intended to appreciate this valuable and dear artist who has spent his life on art and serving his people. I wanted to introduce his artistic works to my compatriots.

        My ever dream has been to have a shear in taking a good care of his valuable art works. I loved to have a shear in serving the art of my territory in this way. Whenever I have a short trip to the artist’s place I took advantage of that occasion to visit him, on one hand because of spiritual environment and on the other hand, because of curiosity and tendency to see his new paintings. Each time I meet this valuable artist I am surprised because of his strong intention. I had the chance to take some films from his works or painting but that was never what really wanted till the Nowrooz (Iranian New Year) of 2005 that I had a trip to his place. Time was short and I had 2 days to take films and photos of all his painting for the website you are visiting now. He has about 1000 paintings but unfortunately I couldn’t take photo of all of them because of short time.  I have been tried to do my best for taking photo and framing them (about 500 frames.) Due to my busy time for my studying and working, I need more time to finish and complete the website. I hope to finish as soon as possible.

        He has been always so generous to me and he always encourages me for art. I hope with this website I can make up a small part of his generosity.

I also put a page on the same website for my artistic works whish is available to visitors from the following link.