�This, the latest publication to depict his work, provides vivid testimony of his exceptional, indeed unique, qualities as an artist. Of one thing we can be certain: the art of Mahmoud Farshchian will endure.�

-- Koichiro Matsuura

�...the ordinary western art-lover can still feel and enjoy the aesthetic impact and admire the technical perfection of Mr. Farshchian�s paintings.�

-- Basil Robinson

�Once experienced, Farshchian�s pictures tend to linger in our minds, revealing new facets... Through his enticing, sometimes upsetting worlds, Farshchian�s brush dances to the rhythms of traditional vegetal arabesques.�

-- Stuart Cary Welch

�Mahmoud Farshchian�s painting represents the kind of works of art which shows a thorough affinity with the original Persian art, but more than that, it displays an art which belongs to the total humanity and the world as a whole and, it conveys to our generation the fact that his art is not only for a particular civilization, but it is also as much a part of the artistic and cultural heritage of the entire world�

--Bert Fragner

�...because of his devotion to the honored Iranian practice of the painter�s craft. Master Mahmoud Farshchian is not only a worthy heir to his tradition of many centuries but also a remarkable innovator in the 21st century�

-- Ernst J. Grube & Eleanor Sims

�Farshchian has no intention to represent that rose; rather he urges us on to sense its fragrance. He has now become a point of reference. His mysticism places him in the avant-garde. He tends to show us that which he sees already. Thus he probes through-colors and strives to acquaint the observer with the spirits mundi. Farshchian is an astounding phenomenon and a turning point in the history of the Iranian art of painting�

-- Umberto Baldini

	ACCOLADES - Click on a link to view
	Koichiro Matsuura Director General of UNESCO Professor Basil Robinson Fellow of British Academy, former curator of Victoria & Albert Museum, London Stuart Cary Welch Curator, Harvard University Art Museums, 1970 � 1995 Bert Fragner Chair, Professor of Iranian Studies, Language, History and Culture, University of Bamberg, Germany Ernst J. Grube & Eleanor Sims Professor Grube, formerly first curator of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum and now professor emeritus at the University of Venice Umberto Baldini Chair, Professor of History of Art and President, International University of Art, Florence, Italy