June 2016
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Abolhassan Sadighi Georgia o'keeffe Kish IR A N
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1-Georgia o'keeffe 8-Competition 10-Abolhassan Sadighi 13-Competition 14-Asghar Bichareh 17-Kish Island
They smell your breath, lest you had uttered ‘I love you’. They smell your heart! Strange times are these my dear. They flog love at a roadblock corner. Love is better off hidden in a closet at home.
In this crooked dead-end of twisting chill they kindle their fire with our song and poetry. Director: Aziz Anzabi Editor and translator : Asra Yaghoubi Research: Zohreh Nazari
Do not risk thinking. Strange times are these my dear.
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. She is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism".
She attended Town Hall School in Sun Prairie.By age ten she had decided to become an artist,and she and her sister received art instruction from local watercolorist Sara Mann. O'Keeffe attended high school at Sacred Heart Academy in Madison, Wisconsin as a boarder between 1901 and 1902. In late 1902, the O'Keeffes moved from Wisconsin Early life and education to the close-knit neighborhood of Georgia O'Keeffe as a teaching Peacock Hill in Williamsburg, assistant to Alon Bement at the Virginia. O'Keeffe stayed in University of Virginia in 1915 Wisconsin with her aunt and Georgia O'Keeffe was born on attended Madison High School, November 15, 1887 in then joined her family in Virginia a farmhouse located in 1903. She completed high at 2405 Hwy T in the town of Sun school as a boarder at Chatham Prairie, Wisconsin.Her parents, Episcopal Institute in Virginia (now Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe and Ida Chatham Hall) and graduated in (Totto) O'Keeffe, were dairy 1905. She was a member of the farmers. Her father was of Irish Kappa Delta sorority. descent. Her maternal grandfather George Victor Totto, O'Keeffe studied at the School of for whom O'Keeffe was named, the Art Institute of Chicago from was a Hungarian count who came 1905 to 1906.In 1907, she to America in 1848. attended the Art Students League in New York City, where she O'Keeffe was the second studied under William Merritt of seven children and the first Chase. daughter. 1
In 1908, she won the League's William Merritt Chase still-life prize for her oil painting Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot.Her prize was a scholarship to attend the League's outdoor summer school in Lake George, New York. While in the city in 1908, O'Keeffe attended an exhibition of Rodin's watercolors at the gallery 291, owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Bement. Dow encouraged artists to express themselves using line, color, and shading harmoniously. From 1912-14, she taught art in the public schools in Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle.She attended Teachers College of Columbia University from 1914–15, where she took classes from Dow, who greatly influenced O'Keeffe's thinking about the process of making art.She served as a teaching assistant to Bement during the summers from 1913–16 and taught O'Keeffe abandoned the idea of at Columbia College, Columbia, pursuing a career as an artist South Carolina in late 1915, where in late 1908, claiming that she she completed a series of highly could never distinguish herself as innovative charcoal abstractions. an artist within the mimetic After further course work at tradition which had formed the Columbia in early 1916 and basis of her art training.She took a summer teaching for Bement, she job in Chicago as a commercial took a job as head of the art artist. She did not paint for four department at West Texas State years,and said that the smell of Normal College from late 1916 to turpentine made her sick. February 1918, the fledgling West She was inspired to paint again in Texas A&M University in Canyon 1912, when she attended a just south of Amarillo. While there, class at the University of Virginia she often visited the Palo Duro Summer School, where she was Canyon, making its forms a subject introduced to the innovative ideas in her work. of Arthur Wesley Dow by Alon
New York O'Keeffe had made some charcoal drawings in late 1915 which she had mailed from South Carolina to Anita Pollitzer. Pollitzer took them to Alfred Stieglitz at his 291 gallery early in 1916. Stieglitz told Pollitzer that the drawings were the "purest, finest, sincerest things that had entered 291 in a long while", and that he would like to show them. O'Keeffe had first visited 291 in 1908, but did not speak with Stieglitz then, although she came to have high regard for him and to know him in early 1916, when she was in New York at Teachers College. In April 1916, he exhibited ten of her drawings at 291. O'Keeffe knew that Stieglitz was planning to exhibit her work but he had not told her when, and she was surprised to learn that her work was on view; she confronted Stieglitz over the drawings but agreed to let them remain on exhibit. Stieglitz organized O'Keeffe's first solo show at 291 in April 1917, which included oil paintings and watercolors completed in Texas.
Stieglitz and O'Keeffe corresponded frequently beginning in 1916 and, in June 1918, she accepted his invitation to move to New York to devote all of her time to her work. The two were deeply in love and, shortly after her arrival, they began living together, even though Stieglitz was married and 23 years her senior. That year, Stieglitz first took O'Keeffe to his family home at the village of Lake George in New York's Adirondack Mountains, and they spent part of every year there until 1929, when O'Keeffe spent the first of many summers painting in New Mexico. In 1924, Stieglitz's divorce was approved by a judge and, within four months, he and O'Keeffe married. It was a small, private ceremony at John Marin's house, and afterward the couple went back home. There was no reception, festivities, or honeymoon. O'Keeffe said later that they married in order to help soothe the troubles of Stieglitz's daughter Kitty who was being treated in a sanatorium for depression and hallucinations at that time.
The marriage did not seem to a public sensation. She once made have any immediate effect on a remark to Pollitzer about the either Stieglitz or O'Keeffe; they nude photographs which may be both continued working on their the best indication of O'Keeffe's individual projects as they had ultimate reaction to being their before. For the rest of their lives subject: "I felt somehow that the together, their relationship was, photographs had nothing to do as biographer Benita Eisler with me personally." In 1978, she characterized it, wrote about how distant from a collusion ... a system them she had become: "When I of deals and trade-offs, tacitly look over the photographs Stieglitz agreed to and carried out, for the took of me-some of them more most part, without the than sixty years ago—I wonder who exchange of a word. Preferring that person is. It is as if in my one avoidance to confrontation on life I have lived many lives. If the most issues, O'Keeffe was the person in the photographs were principal agent of collusion in their living in this world today, she would union. be quite a different person—but it Stieglitz started photographing doesn't matter—Stieglitz O'Keeffe when she visited him in photographed her then." New York City to see her 1917 Beginning in 1918, O'Keeffe came exhibition. By 1937, when he to know the many early American retired from photography, he had modernists who were part of made more than 350 portraits of Stieglitz's circle of artists, including her. Most of the more erotic Charles Demuth, photographs were made in the 1910s and early 1920s. In February 1921, forty-five of Stieglitz's photographs were exhibited in a retrospective exhibition at the Anderson Galleries, including many of O'Keeffe, some of which depicted her in the nude. It created
Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Paul Strand, and Edward Steichen. Strand's photography, as well as that of Stieglitz and his many photographer friends, inspired O'Keeffe's work. Also around this time, O'Keeffe became sick during the 1918 flu pandemic, like so many others.Soon after 1918, she began working primarily in oil, a shift away from having worked primarily in watercolor in the earlier 1910s. By the mid-1920s, O'Keeffe began making large-scale paintings of natural forms at close range, as if seen through a magnifying lens. In 1924, she painted her first large-scale flower painting Petunia, No. 2, which was first exhibited in 1925. She also completed a significant body of paintings of New York buildings, such as City Night and New York— Night (1926) and Radiator Bldg— Night, New York (1927). O'Keeffe turned to working more representationally in the 1920s in an effort to move her critics away from Freudian interpretations. Her earlier work had been mostly abstract, but works such as Black Iris III (1926) evoke a veiled
representation of female genitalia while also accurately depicting the center of an iris. O'Keeffe consistently denied the validity of Freudian interpretations of her art, but fifty years after it had first been interpreted in that way, many prominent feminist artists assessed her work similarly; Judy Chicago, for example, gave O'Keeffe a prominent place in her The Dinner Party. Although 1970s feminists celebrated O'Keeffe as the originator of "female iconography", O'Keeffe rejected their celebration of her work and refused to cooperate with any of their projects. In 1922, the New York Sun published an article quoting O'Keeffe: "It is only by selection, by elimination, and by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things. Inspired by Precisionism, The Green Apple, completed in 1922, depicts her notion of simple, meaningful life. Beginning in 1923, Stieglitz organized annual exhibitions of O'Keeffe's work. By the mid-1920s, O'Keeffe had become known as one of the most important American artists.
Her work commanded high prices; in 1928, Stieglitz masterminded a sale of six of her calla lily paintings for US$25,000, which would have been the largest sum ever paid for a group of paintings by a living American artist. Although the sale fell through, Stieglitz's promotion of it drew extensive media attention. Later years and death In 1972, O'Keeffe's eyesight was compromised by macular degeneration, leading to the loss of central vision and leaving her with only peripheral vision. She stopped oil painting without assistance in 1972, but continued working in pencil and charcoal until 1984.Juan Hamilton, a young potter, appeared at her ranch house in 1973 looking for work. She hired him for a few odd jobs and soon employed him full-time. He became her closest confidant, companion, and business manager until her death. Hamilton taught O'Keeffe to work with clay and, working with assistance, she produced clay pots and a series of
works in watercolor. In 1976, she wrote a book about her art and allowed a film to be made about her in 1977. O'Keeffe became increasingly frail in her late 90s. She moved to Santa Fe in 1984, where she died on March 6, 1986 at the age of 98.In accordance with her wishes, her body was cremated and her ashes were scattered to the wind at the top of Pedernal Mountain, over her beloved "faraway". Awards In 1962, O'Keeffe was elected to the fifty-member American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1966, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.In 1977, President Gerald R. Ford presented O'Keeffe with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor awarded to American civilians.In 1985, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
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Abolhassan Sadighi 1894 – December 11, 1995 was one of the most prominent Iranian sculptors and painters and was known as Master Sadighi.
Molk. Abolhassan Khan Sadighi's innovative first sculpture was the beginning of a new movement in the art of sculpture in modern Iran.
After numerous experiences in Biography creating plaster sculptures, he He was born in Tehran in 1894.He made his first stone sculpture on a entered the Alliance school after stucco model of the Venus de Milo. finishing his primary education. The sculpture received so much There, he began painting and attention and praise that Kamal-aldrawing without any teaching or Molk took his apprentice and the guidance. Venus sculpture to the Imperial Court, and introduced him to His love for painting and drawing Ahmad Shah of the Qajar dynasty. led him to become the student of Then, after that meeting, Sadighi Master Kamal-al-Molk Ghaffari. was offered a monthly salary from He soon became one of the most the order of Ahmad Shah and then remarkable art students of the became the director of the School master. At the end of his of Delicate Crafts. Upon receiving educational time in the School of this honor, he totally devoted Fine Arts himself to sculpture and made Master Kamal-al-Molk appointed sculptures from both plaster and him as an instructor of painting stone. These sculptures include the and drawing at the school. bust of Ferdowsi on the Eagle's Wings, the full statue of Amir Kabir, Shortly after his employment he and the most memorable of all, Haji began to find himself attracted to Moqbel the Black Flute Player. sculpture. Without adequate means, he ventured to create his first stucco bust of a child and offered it to his master, Kamal-al10
In 1928 Kamal-al-Molk was exiled which played a major role in the to Hosseinabad of Nishapur, which development of sculpture in was deeply distressing to Sadighi; modern Iran. consequently, with a tiny amount of money that he had saved throughout the years, he left Iran for Europe. In Europe he visited many countries, and for four years he studied sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts in France. His teacher was Ange Albert, the skillful master of sculpture at the École. In Beaux-Arts he managed to prove himself more talented in competition with other art students at the École. During his stay in Europe, he created, in addition to sculptures, some works in oil and watercolour which showed the influence he received from the new European art movements of the time. In 1932, after returning to Iran, he accepted a request from his the exiled Kamal-al-Molk to re-open the School of Delicate Crafts and be its director. Once again, the school became a center of visual art,
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Asghar Bichareh photographic work for his film, 'The June 11, 1927 – June 11, 2016 Lor Girl'. was an Iranian photographer and Sepanta's 'The Lor Girl' was the first actor. Bichareh was a photographer talkie movie as well as one of the for the Iranian film and music first production in a Muslim country industries, as well as having a with a woman cast. He began studio and acting in over 23 films. production of 'The Lor Girl' at the Bichareh was known for his Imperial Film Co. in Bombay. The extensive collection of old cameras movie was screened in October and cinema and theater photos. 1933 in Tehran and was surprisingly Veteran Iranian cinema a major hit. photographer Asghar Bichareh He died of laryngeal cancer in 2016 passed away on June 12 at the age in Los Angeles, where he spent the of 89. last few years of his life. Since he lived the last years of his life in the US, Iranian officials asked his family to transfer his body to be buried alongside other artists in Iran. The actor, director and photographer, Bichareh, was born in 1927 in Tehran. He was responsible for compiling a large archive of photographic works which includes the first photographs taken by the Qajar king Nasser ad-Din Shah. He also wrote a three-volume book on Iran's cinematic history. He achieved world fame when film director Abdolhossein Sepanta invited him to Germany to develop
kish island
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Kish is a 91.5-square-kilometre (35.3 sq mi) resort island in the Persian Gulf. It is part of the HormozgÄ n Province of Iran. Due to its free trade zone status it is touted as a consumer's paradise, with numerous malls, shopping centres, tourist attractions, and resort hotels. It has an estimated population of 26,000 residents and about 1 million people visit the island annually. Kish Island was ranked among the world’s 10 most beautiful islands by The New York Times in 2010, and is the fourth most visited vacation destination in Southwest Asia after Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Sharm el-Sheikh.Foreign nationals wishing to enter Kish Free Zone from legal ports are not required to obtain visas prior to travel. Valid travel permits are stamped for 14 days by airport and Kish port police officials. History Kish Island has been mentioned in history variously as Kamtina, Arakia. Arakata, and Ghiss. Kish Island's strategic position
served as a way-station and link for the ancient Assyrian and Elamite civilizations when their primitive sailboats navigated from Susa through the Karun River into the Persian Gulf and along the southern coastline passing Kish, Qeshm and Hormoz islands. When these civilizations vanished, Kish Island's advantageous position was lost and for a period it was subjected to turmoil and the tyranny of local potentates and other vendors. With the establishment of the Achaemenid dynasty, the Persian Gulf was profoundly affected. Kish was, in particular, economically and politically linked with the civilization of the Medes, Persians when they were at the height of their power. In the shadow of the empire, the islands in the Gulf became prosperous, navigation in the Persian Gulf was expanded and better vessels were used to carry passengers and goods. Navigational signs, including lighthouses, were set up to facilitate navigation in the Persian Gulf.
In 325 BC, Alexander the Great 17 countries worldwide. As part of commissioned Nearchus to set off the Flower of the East project Kish on an expeditionary voyage to the will have an 18-hole championship Sea of Oman and the Persian Gulf. golf course based on PGA standards Nearchus's writings on Arakata and a 9-hole course for beginners. contain the first-known mention of Kish Island in antiquity.When Marco Polo visited the Imperial court in China, he commented on the Emperor's wife's pearls, he was told that they were from Kish. In the 1970s the last Shah of Iran turned the island into a luxury resort for the international elite, complete with a Grand Casino (now known as the Shayan International Hotel). Kish Airport was designed to handle the Concorde. After the Islamic Revolution, Kish Island became a duty-free shopping center. Sports Kish acts as the location for numerous international sporting events. Kish Island is part of the Professional Squash Association's annual tour, holding the Fajr International Squash Championship. Kish Island also holds Iran's Traditional and Heroic Games Contests annually attracting over
Equestrian Club hosts national Kish is home to a multi-purpose races and is capable of holding Olympic stadium seating 1,200 international competitions. spectators, it caters for 11 sports Kish has 3 international standard including volleyball, basketball, volleyball courts, Kish held the handball, futsal, gymnastics, 2006 Asian Beach Volleyball wrestling, taekwondo, judo, karate Championship. and chess. All of these are Kish Island has 1 professional supervised by professional and football team, Kish Air FC plays in international coaches. the Hormozgan Provincial League. It attracts top national football In 2015, the FlyboardKish Club teams and clubs who often use under Yeganeh Setareh Kish as summer training camp Kish,introduced the Zapata Racing with high quality facilities, good Products, to the list of water sports weather and a tranquille in the Kish Island, for Personal environment making it a good Water Craft (PWC) which supplies location. The Kish Karting Track is propulsion to drive the Flyboard one of the largest in Southwest through air and water to perform a Asia, and one of the sport known as flyboarding. first of its kind in Iran. A great array of water sports are also on offer in In 2016 Kish was the host to an Kish such as snorkeling and scuba officially sanctioned FIVB beach diving courses, jet skiing, diving volleyball event. Hosting the FIVB cruises, water skiing, sea skiffs, Kish Island Open from February 15 cruises to other islands around to 17. Kish, parasailing, jet boat rides, cruise fishing boats, pedal boating, banana boat rides, and windsurfing. Maryam Bowling Complex includes 16 bowling lanes, a health club with a fitness suite, and a jacuzzi. Kish
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