Buddhas of Bamiyan
Aaron Tarin
Fine Arts
About this Item
- Title
- Buddhas of Bamiyan
- Date
- 2025
- Summary
- This series was an assignment for my printmaking class for a reduction project under the prompt “what remains and what is cast away”. I decided to base my prints on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, two statues of Buddha located in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan. Starting in 1998 the statues would be periodically attacked by the Taliban until the complete destruction of them in 2001. I decided to print on both sides of each print. The back is one of the statues in their intact state or “what is cast away”. The front is the product of me carrying out my own destruction on the linoleum replicating the statue in its destroyed state or “what remains".
- Format
- Reductive linoleum print on paper
- Dimensions
- 10 x 14 inches
- Description
- Course: FA 272 - Relief Printmaking
- Semester: Spring 2025, Semester 4
- Professor: Nate Flagg
- Program Degree: Fine Arts AAS
- Rights
- In Copyright
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- Identifier
- FIT Repository ID: fa_000333
Citation
Tarin, A. (2025). Buddhas of Bamiyan. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/618590
Tarin, Aaron. Buddhas of Bamiyan. 2025. FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/618590
Tarin, Aaron. "Buddhas of Bamiyan." FIT Digital Repository, 2025. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/618590