August 2016

C o m p e ti ti H o e n

n ri M a ti s s e World of the Angel

AZIZ ART August 2016

Mohammad Ehsai

Gorgan Iran

A R T C o ur se s

1-Henri Matisse 10-Competition 11-Mohammad Ehsai 14- Competition 15-World of the Angel 17-Gorgan -Iran 21- ART Courses

Director: Aziz Anzabi Editor and translator : Asra Yaghoubi Research: Zohreh Nazari

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Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse 31 prosperous grain merchant.

December 1869 – 3 November He grew up in Bohain-en1954was a French artist, known Vermandois, Picardie, France. In for both his use of colour and his 1887 he went to Paris to study law, fluid and original draughtsmanship. working as a court administrator in He was a draughtsman, printmaker, Le Cateau-Cambrésis after gaining and sculptor, but is his qualification. He first started to known primarily as a painter. paint in 1889, after his mother Matisse is commonly regarded, brought him art supplies during a along with Pablo Picasso and period of convalescence following Marcel Duchamp, as one of the an attack of appendicitis. He three artists who helped to define discovered "a kind of paradise" as the revolutionary developments in he later described it,and decided to the plastic arts throughout the become an artist, deeply opening decades of the twentieth disappointing his father. century, responsible for significant In 1891 he returned to Paris to developments in painting and study art at the Académie Julian sculpture.Although he was initially and became a student of Williamlabelled a Fauve (wild beast), Adolphe Bouguereau and Gustave by the 1920s he was increasingly Moreau. Initially he painted still hailed lifes and landscapes in a traditional as an upholder of the classical style, at which he achieved tradition in French painting.His reasonable proficiency. Matisse was mastery of the expressive language influenced by the works of earlier of colour and drawing, displayed in masters such as Jean-Baptistea body of work spanning over a Siméon Chardin, Nicolas Poussin, half-century, won him recognition and Antoine Watteau, as well as by as a leading figure in modern art. modern artists, such as Édouard Early life and education Manet, and by Japanese art.

Matisse was born in Le CateauChardin was one of the painters Cambrésis, in the Matisse most admired; as an art Nord department in northern student he made copies of four of France, the oldest son of a Chardin's paintings in the Louvre.

In 1896 and 1897, Matisse visited the Australian painter John Peter Russell on the island Belle Île off the coast of Brittany. Russell introduced him to Impressionism and to the work of van Gogh, who had been a friend of Russell but was completely unknown at the time. Matisse's style changed completely. He later said "Russell was my teacher, and Russell explained colour theory to me."In 1896 Matisse exhibited five paintings in the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, two of which were purchased by the state.

With the model Caroline Joblau, he had a daughter, Marguerite, born in 1894. In 1898 he married Amélie Noellie Parayre; the two raised Marguerite together and had two sons, Jean (born 1899) and Pierre (born 1900). Marguerite and Amélie often served as models for Matisse.

In 1898, on the advice of Camille Pissarro, he went to London to study the paintings of J. M. W. Turner and then went on a trip to Corsica.Upon his return to Paris in

February 1899, he worked beside Albert Marquet and met André Derain, Jean Puy,[16] and Jules Flandrin.Matisse immersed himself in the work of others and went into debt from buying work from painters he admired. The work he hung and displayed in his home included a plaster bust by Rodin, a painting by Gauguin, a drawing by van Gogh, and Cézanne's Three Bathers. In Cézanne's sense of pictorial structure and colour, Matisse found his main inspiration.

Many of Matisse's paintings from 1898 to 1901 make use of a Divisionist technique he adopted after reading Paul Signac's essay, "D'Eugène Delacroix au Néoimpressionisme". His paintings of 1902–03, a period of material hardship for the artist, are comparatively somber and reveal a preoccupation with form. Having made his first attempt at sculpture, a copy after Antoine-Louis Barye, in 1899, he devoted much of his energy to working in clay, completing The Slave in 1903.

Around April 1906 he met Pablo Picasso, who was 11 years younger than Matisse.The two became lifelong friends as well as rivals and are often compared. One key difference between them is that Matisse drew and painted from nature, while Picasso was much more inclined to work from imagination. The subjects painted most frequently by both artists were women and still life, with Matisse more likely to place his figures in fully realised interiors.

Matisse and Picasso were first brought together at the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas. During the first decade of the twentieth century, the Americans in Paris— Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo Stein, Michael Stein and Michael's wife Sarah—were important collectors and supporters of Matisse's paintings. In addition Gertrude Stein's two American friends from Baltimore, the Cone sisters Claribel and Etta, became major patrons of Matisse and Picasso, collecting hundreds of their paintings and drawings. The Cone collection is now exhibited in

the Baltimore Museum of Art. Henri Matisse, The Moroccans, 1915-16, oil on canvas, 181.3 x 279.4 cm, Museum of Modern Art While numerous artists visited the Stein salon, many of these artists were not represented among the paintings on the walls at 27 rue de Fleurus. Where the works of Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso dominated Leo and Gertrude Stein's collection, Sarah Stein's collection particularly emphasised Matisse.

Contemporaries of Leo and Gertrude Stein, Matisse and Picasso became part of their social circle and routinely joined the gatherings that took place on Saturday evenings at 27 rue de Fleurus.

Gertrude attributed the beginnings of the Saturday evening salons to Matisse, remarking: "More and more frequently, people began visiting to see the Matisse paintings—and the Cézannes: Matisse brought people, everybody brought somebody, and they came at any time and it began to be a nuisance, and it was in this way that Saturday evenings began."

Among Pablo Picasso's acquaintances who also frequented the Saturday evenings were: Fernande Olivier (Picasso's mistress), Georges Braque, AndrĂŠ Derain, the poets Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire, Marie Laurencin (Apollinaire's mistress and an artist in her own right), and Henri Rousseau.

His friends organised and financed the AcadĂŠmie Matisse in Paris, a private and non-commercial school in which Matisse instructed

young artists. It operated from 1907 until 1911. The initiative for the academy came from the Steins and the DĂ´miers, with the involvement of Hans Purrmann, Patrick Henry Bruce and Sarah Stein.

Matisse spent seven months in Morocco from 1912 to 1913, producing about 24 paintings and numerous drawings. His frequent orientalist topics of later paintings, such as odalisques, can be traced to this period.

Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910.

The movement as such lasted only a few years, 1904–1908, and had three exhibitions.The leaders of the movement were Matisse and André Derain. Matisse's first solo exhibition was at Ambroise Vollard's gallery in 1904, without much success. His fondness for bright and expressive colour became more pronounced after he spent the summer of 1904 painting in St. Tropez with the neo-Impressionists Signac and Henri-Edmond Cross.In that year he painted the most important of his works in the neo-Impressionist style, Luxe, Calme et Volupté.In 1905 he travelled southwards again to work with André Derain at Collioure. His paintings of this period are characterised by flat shapes and controlled lines, using pointillism in a less rigorous way than before.

Matisse and a group of artists now known as "Fauves" exhibited together in a room at the Salon d'Automne in 1905. The paintings expressed emotion with

wild, often dissonant colours, without regard for the subject's natural colours. Matisse showed Open Window and Woman with the Hat at the Salon. Critic Louis Vauxcelles described the work with the phrase "Donatello parmi les fauves!" (Donatello among the wild beasts), referring to a Renaissancetype sculpture that shared the room with them. His comment was printed on 17 October 1905 in Gil Blas, a daily newspaper, and passed into popular usage. The exhibition garnered harsh criticism—"A pot of paint has been flung in the face of the public", said the critic Camille Mauclair—but also some favourable attention.When the painting that was singled out for special condemnation, Matisse's Woman with a Hat, was bought by Gertrude and Leo Stein, the embattled artist's morale improved considerably.

Les toits de Collioure, 1905, oil on canvas, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia Matisse was recognised as a leader of the Fauves, along with André Derain; the two were friendly rivals, each with his own followers.

Other members were Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, and Maurice de Vlaminck. The Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau (1826– 1898) was the movement's inspirational teacher.

As a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he pushed his students to think outside of the lines of formality and to follow their visions.

In 1907 Guillaume Apollinaire, commenting about Matisse in an article published in La Falange, wrote, "We are not here in the presence of an extravagant or an extremist undertaking: Matisse's art is eminently reasonable."But Matisse's work of the time also encountered vehement criticism, and it was difficult for him to provide for his family.His painting Nu bleu (1907) was burned in effigy at the Armory Show in Chicago in 1913.

The decline of the Fauvist movement after 1906 did not affect the career of Matisse; many of his finest works were created between 1906 and 1917, when he was an active part of the

great gathering of artistic talent in Montparnasse, even though he did not quite fit in, with his conservative appearance and strict bourgeois work habits. He continued to absorb new influences. He travelled to Algeria in 1906 studying African art and Primitivism. After viewing a large exhibition of Islamic art in Munich in 1910, he spent two months in Spain studying Moorish art. He visited Morocco in 1912 and again in 1913 and while painting in Tangiers he made several changes to his work, including his use of black as a colour.The effect on Matisse's art was a new boldness in the use of intense, unmodulated colour, as in L'Atelier Rouge (1911).

Matisse had a long association with the Russian art collector Sergei Shchukin. He created one of his major works La Danse specially for Shchukin as part of a two painting commission, the other painting being Music, 1910. An earlier version of La Danse (1909) is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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Mohammad Ehsai

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Mohammad Ehsai was born in 1939, Ghazvin - Iran is a master calligrapher turned artist who uses dense, interlaced texts to provide a contemplative space for language that does not rely on direct translation. He graduated from Faculty of fine arts, Tehran university. His works are inspired

by Western abstraction and Chinese brush painting. Large in scale and often brightly colored upon black backgrounds, his compositions require perceptive silence rather than reading skills, and seek to convey the heavenly power that calligraphy has traditionally possessed. By toying with proportion, ratio, and scale, these works visualize a distinct mysticism in their interpretation and take on the utopian ideals of Modernism. The artist has created

illustrious murals and private commissions, using his own unique style to transform the ways in which this seemingly rigid text might be distilled.

Ehsai’s murals can be found on the Iranian Embassy in Abu Dhabi and the Natural Museum of Iran. He has exhibited extensively in Tehran and has had work in institutions such as the British Museum, London, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Leighton House Museum, London, and Beirut Exhibition Center, among others.

He received the National Award or Art and Culture in Iran in 2005.

Time line 1986 to 2001, Member of Syndicate of Iranian Graphic Designers Art consultant of Contemporary Art Museum 1997, Member of Foundation Committee of Iranian Painters 1996 to 2001, Member of Scientific Committee of Tehran University Member of Iranian Calligraphy Board 1958 to 1963, Teaching in Tehran Schools 1964 Experienced Persian Script (Calligraphy) in Graphics and Decorative Calligraphy (PaintCalligraphy) 1965 to 1974, Calligrapher, Editor, Art Expert and Editor of Art Books in Iran Education Books Organization 1966 to 2001, Collaboration in Art and Culture activities and also had Individual and Group exhibitions 1970 to 1988, traveled to Asian, American and European countries to Study, Research and

Collaboration in Art Meetings and also for his Individual and Group exhibitions 1972 First Selected Painter in Iran Selected Painter in Iran and France 1975 Commenced with TechniProcess N.Y. (New York, USA) 1975 to 1978, Performance of 450 sq. m Paint-Calligraphy for Tehran University 1980 to 1983, Performance of 5 Calligraphy inscriptions for a Mosque in Tehran 1985 Calligraphy and Pottery of Iran Bastan Museum's Entry Inscription 1988 to 1991, Performance of 230 sq. m Pottery inscriptions for Iran Embassy in UAE 2000 Encouraged in 5th Iranian Contemporary Painters by Judjment Committee 2001 Jahannama Gallery - Niavaran Palace, Tehran.

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World of the Angel by Aziz Anzabi 15

Sculpture Clay, part of a world of the angels collection: This work is very delicate with a great amount on the dresses of the angels.

The spiral shape causes it to have a beautiful .unique look to it. Aziz has tried to use the lines of Persian miniatures and shapes . The angels look very concentrated in what they are doing and while some of them look happy some of the angels don't. There is a force in this sculpture that places the viewer in a middle eastern atmosphere. Even though there are no colours on the sculpture when you look at the different flowers placed on the angel's dresses the audience feels like they are in a garden and this relates straight to the angels which gives a metaphysic feeling. The lines are very intricate and every where but the eyes can easily recognize the details even though it's complicated and this is a plus for this sculpture. The angels are all women suggesting that the femininity of the angels can cause them to want to protect the humans from a far. Because of all the violence and wars that are going around the world the angels are grieving for the innocent .The complicating shape of the angels can suggest just how complicated life is. The fact that they don't have any colour also makes the audience feel as if they are not real because they seem more fictional and this could also refer to people's beliefs on whether angels exist or not.

Clay 28cm x 23cm x 15cm By:Asra

Gorgan Iran 17

Gorgan About this sound pronunciation is the capital of Golestan Province, Iran. It lies approximately 400 kilometres to the north east of Tehran, some 30 km (19 mi) away from the Caspian Sea. In the 2006 census, its population was 269,226, in 73,702 families History There are several archaeological sites near Gorgan, including Tureng Tepe and Shah Tepe, in which there are remains dating to the Neolithic and Chalcolithic eras.

According to the Greek historian Arrian, Zadracarta was the largest city of Hyrcania and site of the "royal palace". The term means "the yellow city", and it was given to it from the great number of oranges, lemons, and other fruit trees which grew in the outskirts of that city.

Hyrcania became part of the Achaemenid Empire during the reign of Cyrus the Great (559-530 BC), its founder, or his successor Cambyses (530-522 BC).

The Great Wall of Gorgan, the

second biggest defensive wall in world, was built in the Parthian and Sassanian periods.

At the time of the Sassanids, "Gurgan" appeared as the name of a city, province capital, and province.

Gurgan maintained its independence as a Zoroastrian state even after Persia was conquered by the invading Arab Muslims in 8th century.

In 1210, the city was invaded and sacked by the army of Kingdom of Georgia under command of the brothers Mkhargrdzeli.

The "Old Gorgan" was destroyed during the Mongol invasion in the 13th century, and the center of the region was moved to what was called "Astarabad", which is currently called "Gorgan".

Gurgan and its surrounding regions was sometimes considered as part of the Parthia (the Greater Khorasan) or the Tabaristan regions.

Astarabad was an important political and religious city during the Qajar dynasty.

Geography and climate The wide Dasht-e Gorgan (Plains of Gorgan) are located north of the city and geographically bounded by 37°00' - 37°30' north latitude and 54°00' - 54°30' east longitude, covering an area of about 1,700 square kilometres (660 sq mi).

Some 150 km (93 mi) east of Gorgan is the Golestan National Park, home to a big portion of the fauna of Iran.

In general, Golestan has a moderate and humid climate known as "the moderate Caspian climate." The effective factors behind such a climate are: Alborz mountain range, direction of the mountains, height of the area, neighborhood to the sea, vegetation surface, local winds, altitude and weather fronts. As a result of the above factors, three different climates exist in the region: plain moderate, mountainous, and semiarid. Gorgan valley has a semi-arid climate. The average annual temperature is 18.2 °C (64.8 °F) and the annual rainfall is 600 millimetres (24 in).

Ziarat Village

Demographics The population of the city has been 329,536 as of 2011.

Majority of people of Gorgan speak Persian. A big portion of the city are migrants from nearby regions, including Mazanderanis, Azeris, people from Semnan and Khorasan provinces, as well as some Turkmens, and a small population of Kazakhs.

Gorgani, a dialect of Mazanderani language, was formerly spoken in the city, but it is extinct now, and only several of its words have remained in the accent of the Persian-speakers of the city.

London Art Meetup

Comparative Persian/Iranian and European Art Each session lasts 90 minutes, once a week on Tuesday starting from 5:30 pm. Fee is ÂŁ10 per session to be paid in batches of 4 sessions in advance (ÂŁ40).

Term 1 - will focus on the traditional Persian art of making and painting Pen Boxes.

Tue Sep 6 - 5:30 PM Price: GBP40.00 per person Meritage Centre Church End, Hendon, NW4 4JT, London

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