Umesh Shebe

Persepolis

2011-02-15T02:26:00.000-08:00

Best Graphic Novel written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi.

Marjane Satrapi
1969-
Satrapi is a Iranian and French graphic novelist, illustrator, children’s book author and an Academy Award-nominated animated film director. She lived in Tehran until the age of 14, when her parents sent her to Vienna to escape the Iranian regime. Her most famous work is her autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis, which describe her childhood in Iran and her adolescence in Europe. The graphic novel won the Angouleme Coup de Coeur Award and in 2007 a film adaptation was released. This, in turn, won the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival and the Award for Most Valuable Movie of the Year from the Cinema for Peace. She has contributed several articles and comics to the Op-Ed section of The New York Times. Following the Iranian elections in 2009, Marjane Satrapi and Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf appeared before Green Party members of the European Parliament to present a document that suggested Mir Hossein Mousavi had actually won the election. Although not all of her work has been translated into english there has been a growing interest in her writing.

Themes: Politics, Revolution, Family, Identity, Sex, Love, Monsters, Childhood, Music, Religion

Non-Fiction (In English)

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Embroideries
Chicken with Plums

OBAMA the ROCK STAR

2008-06-24T03:55:00.000-07:00

The artist (Umesh Shebe) captured the spirit of Obama, the rock star of American politics with this painting. An art lover described this 2000 painting as "Oh Ba Ma", and Shebe agrees that there's an uncanny resemblance and was surprised that he painted it way back then. He today wants to dedicate this painting to Obama and wishes him all the best for the Presidential elections in November.

When quizzed about why it shows the candidate as a black tribal singing hysterically, he said it’s an artistic representation and not a visual thought to connect the candidate to any backwardness. The true spirit of the painting is in the expression and the energy which is the essence of the character and reflects the ever growing charm of Obama.

U.Shebe is an artist from Bangalore, India. To read more about the artist visit www.umeshshebe.com

Pratibimb - Reflections of Life

2008-01-16T08:36:00.000-08:00

This is my first solo painting exhibition, if you have visited the exhibition or came here through my site, please leave me a comment on your thoughts.

My website: http://www.umeshshebe.com/

Pratibimb - Exhibition (Feb 1st and 2nd 2008)
Alliance Francaise Bangalore
No.108, Thimmaiah Road, Vasanthnagar,
Bangalore- 560052.

Tel: (00 91 80 ) 41231340/44