Word: musavvir
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...serve any purpose beyond pleasing the eye. The taut elegance of Sadiqi Bek's Lion Tamer and the grace of Riza's A Young Man in a Blue Cloak prove that these two were artists of the first rank. And the drawings of Mu'in Musavvir, Riza's most gifted student, are delightful. His Squatting Camel is not to be missed...
...obviously the work of a young prodigy. Later, toward the end of Shah Abbas's reign, his touch coarsens and he no longer draws graceful, languid young men. Instead, he caricatures raunchy, dope-smoking soldiers like Nashmi the Archer--an archetype of social decay. Riza's protege, Mu'in Musavvir, did original work in the traditional Persian style throughout his long life, in the face of many of his contemporaries's adoption of a European manner. Muhammad Zaman, for example, based his Return from the Flight Into Egypt on a Flemish engraving after Rubens. By the time he died, just...
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