"La Vie in Blue," 24" x 24"

Acrylic and Pen on Canvas.

"La Vie in Blue" is a rich blue piece with many layers and textures to be seen and felt. The artist played with the title, it's a wink to the French expression "la vie en rose" which means life seen with a lens of happiness. The artist wanted to show and tell that life can be happy in any colors. The art is about diversity, happiness, and marriage between cultures; hence the half french and English title. The single house symbolizes our hopeful unity.

Manaz Raiszadeh is a self-taught French-Afghan artist located in San Diego, California. She is an intuitional abstract painter who has been exploring and discovering our world and herself through her art. Her primary mediums are acrylic paint, oil pastels, and paper collage. Her paintings tell the stories that her words cannot express. She is fascinated by the places we have been and the stories we are told. Manaz's art brings her stories into life and eternalizes them. She believes that the universe gifted her a French edge, a Californian dream, and some hot boiling Afghan blood- and that is her duty to share it with the world.