Iranian modern and contemporary art

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History of Persian Art
Pre-modern   Safavid art 1781–1925 Qajar art 1501–1722 / 1736   Modern Iranian Modern Art

A cursory glance at the history of art reveals that social, political and economic conditions have always played a major role in the emergence of new artistic currents and styles. In Iran, the social and political developments of the 1940s radically altered the evolution of this country’s plastic arts and entirely altering its natural path.

The modern art movement in Iran had its genesis in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This was the period after the death of famous Persian painter, Kamal-ol-molk (1852–1940) and thus symbolically the end of a rigid adherence to academic painting.^[1]

The 1949 opening of the Apadana gallery in Tehran, and the emergence of artists like Marcos Grigorian in the 1950s, signaled a commitment to the creation of a form of modern art grounded in Iran.^[2]

In 1977, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art opened, boasting an important collection of both Western and Iranian artists.

[edit] Figures in Iranian modern art

[edit] Notable figures from the Iranian cultural continent

The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art has a sculpture Garden adjacent to Tehran's Laleh Park.

Iranian art is shared among people of Iranian cultural continent and is not limited to modern Iran. Modern art is emerging in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Iraqi Kurdistan. In Afghanistan, Rahraw Omarzad, founded Center for Contemporary Art Afghanistan (CCAA) in 2004. Also, a museum of modern art is under construction in Iraqi Kurdistan. Here is a list of notable figures of Iranian modern art throughout the Iranian cultural continent:

• Lida Abdul (Afghanistan)
• Sabzaly Sharif (Tajikistan)
• Mirshakarov Akmal (Tajikistan)
• Bekasien Anushervon (Tajikistan)
• Dilorom Shermatova (Tajikistan)
• Hamidova Nargis (Tajikistan)

[edit] See also

• Persian art
• Persian culture
• Intellectual Movements in Iran
• Iranian cinema
• Afsaneh Art and Culture Society

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Metropolitan Museum information
2. ^ Article
3. ^ Iran Daily information

[edit] External links

• On Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
• Crossing Museum: the construction of the Sulaimany Modern Art Museum
• Iranian Graffiti and street Art Movement
• Introduction on Iranian on Contemporary art
• Iranian Underground Art Basement
• The Axis of Art and Culture
• Iran makes bow at Madrid contemporary art fest
• Directory of Iranian General Artists and Persian Art
• Rice opens Iranian art show in US (BBC)

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• Iranian Academy of the Arts