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<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/noscript><\/strong><\/p>\nWhen did you first start making art and what lead you to start?\u00a0 <\/strong>I got into graffiti when I was around 14 years old. To get better at graffiti I took an art class and immediately fell in love.<\/li>\nBest advice you ever received in regards to your art?<\/strong>\u00a0 Work harder than everyone else and stay curious.<\/li>\nWhat influences you as an artist?\u00a0 <\/strong>I\u2019m influenced by everything. It\u2019s a generic answer but it\u2019s true. I\u2019ve recently fell in love with architectural shapes in Victorian and Craftsman homes that I\u2019d come across in my neighborhood. I started noticing them during my daily walks with my dog and now they\u2019ve worked their way into my paintings.<\/li>\nYour art reminds me of street art, what is the origin of your paintings?<\/strong>\u00a0 There is a lot of subtle references to graffiti in my work that was leftover from my younger years of sneaking around at night.<\/li>\nDo you start with a mock-up?\u00a0 <\/strong>Each painting is based on a photograph that is edited on the computer. These images are then used as a sketch for the paintings. I often veer away from the original sketch but the photograph gives me the basic structure for each painting.<\/li>\nYour pieces are extremely intricate, and time consuming, what is the longest you have spent on a piece?\u00a0 <\/strong>Around 3 months. I would love to spend a year on one painting. It sounds like a painful task but I\u2019d love to see what a years worth of work on one piece would look like.<\/li>\nHow would you like to be seen as an artist years from now?\u00a0 <\/strong>As someone who contributed to the history of art. Lofty goal but why bother if you don\u2019t aim high.<\/li>\nDo you have a place\/person\/thing that you visit for inspiration? <\/strong>Inspiration is a hoax. I go into the studio everyday and work. Sometimes something happens and sometimes I waste the entire day. That\u2019s just how it goes.<\/li>\nIf you could have dinner with 3 artists living\/dead who would be at your table?\u00a0 <\/strong>Henri Rousseau, Chris Ofili, Francis Bacon.<\/li>\nName three things you can\u2019t live without in your studio?\u00a0 <\/strong>Paint, canvas, brushes.<\/li>\nAre you active on social media and if so where can one find you?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> I\u2019m on Instagram and twitter @amirhfallah .<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10093,"template":"","categories":[14],"class_list":["post-2003","artists","type-artists","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artists"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}