Word: rakhsh
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...beholder in Tehran, the movie is transformed into an Iranian epic. When Gandalf's white steed strides into the frame, local viewers see Rakhsh, the mythical horse of the Rostam, the great champion of the Shahnameh, the thousand-year-old national epic. "Bah, bah ... Rakhsh! Rakhsham amad!" someone says...
...utter vividness, precision of detail and fantasticated, rhythm ical design breathes from nearly all the miniatures, but especially from the work of the Safavid court artist Sultan-Muham mad, for whom this show is in effect a retrospective. In one image of a legendary Persian hero, Rustam Sleeping While Rakhsh Fights the Lion, there is a dazzling play between abstraction and observation...
...landscape, almost subaqueous, in malachite green, pink and blue, woven to gether by the twisting trees. A tense springiness seems to run through every shape, visible in the arabesques of a bush no less than in the lashing tail of the lion or the trampling feet of the horse Rakhsh...
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