Trachoma Acrylic Painting

This acrylic painting from the Trachoma series evokes distorted vision through dense texture and conceptual abstraction

Artwork Description

 about this acrylic painting

Trachoma by Yahya Gomar is part of a visually arresting series that explores themes of perception, blindness, and cultural memory. This large-scale acrylic on canvas painting features densely layered surfaces with subtle tonal shifts and abstract formations.

The composition appears almost clouded, evoking the blurred vision associated with the eye disease trachoma, from which the title draws inspiration. Through painterly textures and abstraction, Gomar creates a visual metaphor for emotional and cultural distortion.
The work invites introspection, not only of what is seen but how and why we see it.

Colors shift across a restrained yet powerful palette, creating a rhythmic surface full of light and silence. The texture reveals Gomar’s commitment to both materiality and metaphor, blending visual experience with philosophical inquiry. Like much of his work, this piece is rooted in Persian literary and mythological references, abstracted beyond recognition.

The artist challenges the viewer’s gaze, asking them to reflect on clarity, ignorance, and the fragility of understanding. Gomar’s Trachoma series has received critical recognition and features in major contemporary auctions and exhibitions across Iran. It exemplifies his ability to turn abstraction into a deep cultural meditation through scale, texture, and conceptual intensity.

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Copyright

This acrylic on canvas painting is one of a kind original therefore, all copyrights and reproduction rights are reserved by the artist.