Aziz Art A li A k b a r S a n a ti
Jan 2016
Iran S h i r a z
Tamara de Lempicka Michael McEvoy
Competition poem
2.Ali Akbar Sanati 5. Competition 7. Tamara de Lempicka 16.Shiras 22. Michael McEvoy
Director: Aziz Anzabi Editor and translator : Asra Yaghoubi Research: Zohreh Nazari
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation. Saadi
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Shah Abbas sculpture by Ali Akbar Sanati
Ali Akbar Sanati Master Sanatizadeh was born in 1916 in Kerman. He was only six month old when his father passed away ,since his mother wasn't able to take care of him late Haj Ali Akbar Sanati the founder of" Sanati" orphanage took care of him. Seyed Ali Akbar found his talent of painting when he was eight years old .After he finished his primary education Haj Ali Akbar sent him to Tehran so that he could go to Kamalolmolk school which had the best masters in art such as: Abol Hossein Khan Sedighi, Hossein Khan Sheikhi and ALi Rokhsaz.He got his Bachelor of Art in 1940 in the feild of Art then he returned to Kerman to pay his debt to the orphanage he was raised in there for he selected 40 orphans to teach . In 1945 he went to Tehran and with the help of Abdol Hossein Sanati he opened a museum in
Toopkhooneh square and donated it to Shir khorshid. In 1946 he opened the first anthropology museum which was welcomed by a lot of people .In 1951 he opened an other museum in college street which had all his artwork but some of them were transfered to Kermsn in 1977. In 1978 some people broke into the museum and perished some of his artwork and stoled the rest ,the only things left from the museum were some pictures of his house. By the age of 80 he created the number of 6000 paintings of oil color,water color and hundreds of statues of stone,marbel and bronze 2
What we can say about him is that about poor people or prisoners he understood poeple of his time likeThe tablet of a prisoner in very well and tried to show the life prison which was made in 1950. of poor in his artwork . In 1973 The rest of his subjects were about Abol Hossein Sanatizadeh passed other Iranian and foreign artists away after four years with the help such as : Malekoshoaraye Bahar, of Haj Ali Akbar's grand son Dehkhoda,Amir Homayoon Sanatizadeh he built a Kabir,Ferdosi,Gandi, ... . new building by the name of "Sanati Museum " in the center of Art work made with mosaic and the orphanage which had some of stone: his The artwork made from tile and paintings , statutes and some of marbel were put flat next to each other artists such as Kamamolmolk. other .Most of them were stones What is understood from his with different veins and textures artwork is his relationship with the and were put togetheter in a nice poeple of his time .He always way.His tablets were made of remembered the life of the orphans natural stones .The tablet of the of the orphanage and tried to show retsing place of Shah Nemat allah it in his artwork so we can call his vali in Mahan which was made in work mystic. The subject of his 1976 or the tablet of the "shepherd work was about poele of society or and his fold " which was made in the ones who tried to help others 1942 from colored stones or the .The subject that he cared about tablet of the "blacksmith" which alot and maybe was about his past was made in 1946 from mosaic and was the feeling and love of a stone are good examples of his mother who held her child in her work. arms which was painted in 1982. Statues: Most of his statues were about anthropology which tried to show the history. Some subjects were
Jailers by Ali Akbar Sanati
The CDS Documentary Essay Prize honors the best in documentary photography and writing in alternating years: one year, photos; one year, writing. The focus is on current or recently completed work (within the last two years) from a long-term project. The upcoming prize competition will be for photography. The winner of the competition will receive $3,000 and will have his or her work featured in Document, a periodical published by the Center for Documentary Studies, as well as on the Center's website. The winner's work will also be placed in the Archive of Documentary Arts at the Rubenstein Library, Duke University.
The 2014 prize, for photography, was given to Iveta Vaivode for "Somewhere on a Disappearing Path," in which she explores the rural landscape and, perhaps, the last inhabitants, of Pilcene, Latvia, to create a new family album, one full of images of memories she's imagined. Submissions for the CDS Documentary Essay Prize in Photography will be accepted from November 2, 2015, to February 16, 2016. See How to Enter and FAQ's. The winner will be publicly announced in June 2016. More Information: http://documentarystudies.duke.edu/awards
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Tamara de Lempicka 16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980 was a Polish Art Deco painter and "the first woman artist to be a glamour star". Influenced by Cubism, Lempicka became the leading representative of the Art Deco style across two continents, a favorite artist of many Hollywood stars, referred to as 'the baroness with a brush'. She was the most fashionable portrait painter of her generation among the haute bourgeoisie and aristocracy, painting duchesses and grand dukes and socialites. Through her network of friends, she was also able to display her paintings in the most elite salons of the era. Lempicka was criticized as well as admired for her 'perverse Ingram', referring to her modern restatement of the master Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, as displayed in her work Group of Four Nudes (1925) among other studies. Life She was born Maria Górska in Warsaw,Congress Poland under the rulership of the Russian Empire, into a wealthy and prominent family. Lempicka was
the daughter of Boris GurwikGórski, a Russian Jewish attorney for a French trading company,and Malwina Dekler, a Polish socialite who met him at one of the European spas. Maria had two siblings and was the middle child. She attended a boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and spent the winter of 1911 with her grandmother in Italy and on the French Riviera, where she was treated to her first taste of the Great Masters of Italian painting. In 1912, her parents divorced, and Maria went to live with her rich Aunt Stefa in St. Petersburg, Russia. When her mother remarried, she became determined to break away to make a life of her own. In 1913, at the age of fifteen, while attending the opera, Maria spotted the man she became determined to marry. She promoted her campaign through her well-connected uncle, and in 1916 she married Tadeusz Łempicki (1888–1951) in St. Petersburg—a well-known ladies' man, gadabout, and lawyer by title, who was tempted by the significant dowry. 7
In 1917, during the Russian Revolution, Tadeusz Ĺ empicki was arrested in the dead of night by the Bolsheviks. Maria searched the prisons for him and after several weeks, with the help of the Swedish consul, she secured his release. They traveled to Copenhagen then to London and finally to Paris, to where Maria's family had also escaped. Paris and painting In Paris, the Lempickis lived for a while from the sale of family jewels. Tadeusz proved unwilling or unable to find suitable work, which added to the domestic strain, while Maria gave birth to Kizette Lempicka. Her sister, the designer Adrienne Gorska, made furniture for her Paris apartment and studio in the Art Deco style, complete with chrome-plated furniture.The flat at 7 Rue Mechain was built by the architect Robert Mallet-Stevens known for his clean lines. "The Musician" (1929), oil on canvas by Tamara de Lempicka Lempicka's distinctive and bold artistic style developed quickly, influenced by what AndrĂŠ Lhote sometimes referred to as "soft
cubism" and by the "synthetic cubism" of Maurice Denis, epitomizing the cool yet sensual side of the Art Deco movement. For her, Picasso "embodied the novelty of destruction".She thought that many of the Impressionists drew badly and employed "dirty" colors. Lempicka's technique would be novel, clean, precise, and elegant. For her first major show, in Milan, Italy in 1925, under the sponsorship of Count Emmanuele Castelbarco, Lempicka painted 28 new works in six months. A portrait would take three weeks of work, allowing for the nuisance of dealing with a difficult sitter; by 1927, Lempicka could charge 50,000 French francs for a portrait, a sum equal to about US$2,000 then and more than ten times as much today. Through Castelbarco, she was introduced to Italy's great man of letters and notorious lover, Gabriele d'Annunzio. She visited the poet twice at his villa on Lake Garda, seeking to paint his portrait; he in turn was set on seduction.
. After her unsuccessful attempts were conducted in ways that were to secure the commission, considered scandalous at the time. she went away angry, while She often used formal and d'Annunzio also remained narrative elements in her portraits, unsatisfied. and her nude studies produced In 1925, Lempicka painted her overpowering effects of desire and iconic work Auto-Portrait (Tamara seduction.In the 1920s she became in the Green Bugatti) for the cover closely associated with lesbian and of the German fashion magazine bisexual women in writing and Die Dame. As summed up by the artistic circles, such as Violet magazine Auto-Journal in 1974, Trefusis, Vita Sackville-West, and "the self-portrait of Tamara de Colette. She also became involved Lempicka is a real image of the with Suzy Solidor, a night club independent woman who asserts singer at the Boîte de Nuit, whose herself. Her hands are gloved, portrait she later painted.Her she is helmeted, husband eventually tired of their and inaccessible; a cold and arrangement and abandoned her in disturbing beauty pierces a 1927. They were divorced in 1931 formidable being—this woman is in Paris. free!" In 1927 Lempicka won her first major award, the first prize at Lempicka rarely saw her daughter. the Exposition Internationale des When Kizette was not away at Beaux Arts in Bordeaux, France, boarding school (France or for her portrait of Kizette on the England), the girl was often with Balcony her grandmother Malvina. When The Roaring Twenties Lempicka informed her mother and In Paris during the Roaring daughter that she would not be Twenties, Tamara de Lempicka returning from America for became part of the bohemian life: Christmas in 1929, Malvina was so she knew Pablo Picasso, Jean angry that she burned Lempicka's Cocteau, and André Gide. Famous enormous collection of designer for her libido, she was bisexual. Her hats; Kizette watched them burn, affairs with both men and women one by one.
Kizette rarely saw her mother, but was immortalized in her paintings. Lempicka painted her only child repeatedly, leaving a striking portrait series: Kizette in Pink, 1926; Kizette on the Balcony, 1927; Kizette Sleeping, 1934; Portrait of Baroness Kizette, 1954–5, etc. In other paintings, the women depicted tend to resemble Kizette.
Depression had little effect on her; in the early 1930s she was painting King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Queen Elizabeth of Greece. Museums began to collect her works. In 1933 she traveled to Chicago where she worked with Georgia O'Keeffe, Santiago Martínez Delgado and Willem de Kooning. Her social position was cemented when she married her In 1928, her longtime patron the lover, Baron Kuffner, on 3 February Baron Raoul Kuffner von Diószeg 1934 in Zurich (his wife had died (1886–1961) visited her studio the year before). The Baron took and commissioned her to paint her out of her quasi-bohemian life his mistress. Lempicka finished and finally secured her place in the portrait, then took high society again, with a title to the mistress' place in the Baron's boot. She repaid him by convincing life. She travelled to the United him to sell many of his estates in States for the first time in 1929, to Eastern Europe and move his paint a commissioned portrait for money to Switzerland. She saw the Rufus T. Bush and to arrange a coming of World War II from a long show of her work at the Carnegie way off, much sooner than most of Institute in Pittsburgh. The show her contemporaries. She did make went well a few concessions to the changing but the money she earned was times as the decade passed; her art lost when the bank she used featured a few refugees and collapsed following the Stock common people, and even a Market Crash of 1929. Christian saint or two, as well as the usual aristocrats and cold nudes. Lempicka continued both her heavy workload and her frenetic social life through the next decade. The Great
Later life Hungarian refugee work. In the winter of 1939, Lempicka For a while, she continued to paint and her husband started an in her trademark style, although "extended vacation" in the United her range of subject matter States. She immediately arranged expanded to include still lifes, and for a show of her work in even some abstracts. Yet eventually New York, though the Baron and she adopted a new style, using Baroness chose to settle in Beverly palette knife instead of brushes. Hills, California, living in the former Her new work was not well residence of Hollywood director received when she exhibited in King Vidor. She cultivated a 1962 at the Iolas Gallery. Lempicka Garboesque manner. determined never to show her The Baroness would visit the work again, and retired from active Hollywood stars on their studio life as a professional artist. sets, such as Tyrone Power, Walter Insofar as she still painted at all, Pidgeon, and George Sanders and Lempicka sometimes reworked they would come to her studio to earlier pieces in her new style. The see her at work. She did war relief crisp and direct Amethyste (1946), work, like many others at the time; for example, became the pink and and she managed to get Kizette out fuzzy Girl with Guitar (1963). She of Nazi-occupied Paris, via Lisbon, showcased at the Ror Volmar in 1941. Some of her paintings of Gallery in Paris from 30 May to 17 this time had a Salvador Dalí June 1961. quality, as displayed in Key and In memoriam bust of Tamara Hand, 1941. In 1943, the couple Łempicka, bronze. City of Kielce, relocated to New York City. Even Poland. though she continued to live in After Baron Kuffner's death from a style, socializing continuously, her heart attack on 3 November 1961 popularity as a society painter had on the ocean liner Liberté en route diminished greatly. to New York,she sold most of her They traveled to Europe frequently possessions and made three to visit fashionable spas and so around-the-world trips by ship. that the Baron could attend to
Finally Lempicka moved to her Mexican friend Victor Manuel Houston, Texas to be with Kizette Contreras and her daughter Kizette. and her family. (Kizette had Lempicka lived long enough for the married a man named Harold wheel of fashion to turn a full Foxhall, who was then chief circle: before she died a new geologist for the Dow Chemical generation had discovered her art Company; they had two daughters.) and greeted it with enthusiasm. A There she began her difficult and retrospective in 1973 drew positive disagreeable later years. Kizette reviews. At the time of her death, served as Tamara's business her early Art Deco paintings were manager, social secretary, and being shown and purchased once factotum, and suffered under her again. A stage play, Tamara, was mother's controlling domination inspired by her meeting with and petulant behavior. Tamara Gabriele D'Annunzio and was first complained that not only were the staged in Toronto; it then ran in Los paints and other artists' materials Angeles for eleven years (1984– now inferior to the "old days" but 1995) at the VFW Post, making it that people in the 1970s lacked the the longest running play in Los special qualities and "breeding" Angeles, and some 240 actors were that inspired her art. The artistry employed over the years. The play and craftsmanship of her glory days was also subsequently produced at were unrecoverable. In 1978 the Seventh Regiment Armory in Tamara moved to Cuernavaca, New York City.In 2005, the actress Mexico, to live among an aging and artist Kara Wilson performed international set and some of the Deco Diva, a one-woman stage play younger aristocrats. After Kizette's based on Lempicka's life. Her life husband died of cancer, she and her relationship with one of attended her mother for three her models is fictionalized in Ellis months until Tamara died in her Avery's novel The Last Nude,which sleep on March 18, 1980. She was won the American Library cremated and her ashes were Association Stonewall Book Awards scattered over the volcano of Barbara Gittings Literature Award Popocatepetl on 27 March 1980 by for 2013.
Shiraz About this sound pronunciation is also considered by many Iranians to the sixth most populous be the city of gardens, city of Iran and the capital of Fars due to the many gardens and fruit Province . At the 2011 census, the trees that can be seen in the city. population of the city was Shiraz has had major Jewish and 1,460,665 and its built-up area Christian communities. The crafts with Shahr-e Jadid-e Sadra was of Shiraz consist of inlaid mosaic home to 1,500,644 inhabitants. work of triangular design; silverShiraz is located in the southwest ware; pile carpet-weaving and of Iran on the Roodkhaneye weaving of kilim, called gilim and Khoshk seasonal river. It has a jajim in the villages and among the moderate climate and has been a tribes. In Shiraz industries such as regional trade center for over a cement production, sugar, thousand years. It is regarded as fertilizers, textile products, wood one of the oldest cities of ancient products, metalwork and rugs Persia. dominate.ShirÄ z also has a major oil The earliest reference to the city, refinery and is also a major center as TiraziĹĄ, is on Elamite clay for Iran's electronic industries: 53% tablets dated to 2000 BC.In the of Iran's electronic investment has 13th century, Shiraz became a been centered in Shiraz.Shiraz is leading center of the arts and home to Iran's first solar power letters, due to the encouragement plant.Recently the city's first wind of its ruler and the presence of turbine has been installed above many Persian scholars and artists. Babakoohi mountain near the city. It was the capital of Persia during Etymology the Zand dynasty from 1750 until Shiraz, Iran is pictured in this 1781, as well as briefly during the handout photo courtesy of Col. Saffarid period. Two famous poets Chris Hadfield of the Canadian of Iran, Hafez and Saadi, are from Space Agency, who is Shiraz. photographing Earth from the Shiraz is known as the city of poets, International Space Station, taken 16 literature, wine and flowers. It is on March 20, 2013 .
The earliest reference to the city is on Elamite clay tablets dated to 2000 BCE, found in June 1970, while digging to make a kiln for a brick factory in the south western corner of the city. The tablets written in ancient Elamite name a city called Tiraziš.Phonetically, this is interpreted as . This name became Old Persian /širājiš/; through regular sound change comes the modern Persian name Shirāz. The name Shiraz also appears on clay sealings found at a 2nd-century CE Sassanid ruin, east of the city. By some of the native writers, the name Shiraz has derived from a son of Tahmuras, the third Shāh (King) of the world according to Ferdowsi's Shāhnāma Pre-Islamic Shiraz is most likely more than 4,000 years old. The name Shiraz is mentioned in cuneiform inscriptions from around 2000 BCE found in southwestern corner of the city.According to some Iranian mythological traditions, it was originally erected by Tahmuras Dive Band, and afterward fell to ruin. The oldest sample of wine in the world, dating to approximately 7,000 years ago, was discovered on
clay jars recovered outside of Shiraz In the Achaemenian era, Shiraz was on the way from Susa to Persepolis and Pasargadae. In Ferdowsi's Shāhnāma it has been said that Artabanus V, the Parthian Emperor of Iran, expanded his control over Shiraz. Ghasre Abu-Nasr which is originally from Parthian era is situated in this area. During the Sassanid era, Shiraz was in between the way which was connecting Bishapur and Gur to Istakhr. Shiraz was an important regional center under the Sassanians. Islamic period The city became a provincial capital in 693, after Arab invaders conquered Istakhr, the nearby Sassanian capital. As Istakhr fell into decline, Shiraz grew in importance under the Arabs and several local dynasties.The Buwayhid empire (945–1055) made it their capital, building mosques, palaces, a library and an extended city wall. It was also ruled by the Seljuks and the Khwarezmians before the Mongol conquest.
The city was spared destruction by forces of Ismail I, the founder of the the invading Mongols, when its Safavid dynasty. Throughout the local ruler offered tributes and Safavid empire (1501–1722) Shiraz submission to Genghis Khan. remained a provincial capital and Shiraz was again spared by Emam Qoli Khan, the governor of Tamerlane, when in 1382 the local Fars under Shah Abbas I, monarch, Shah Shoja agreed to constructed many palaces and submit to the invader. In the 13th ornate buildings in the same style century, Shiraz became a leading as those built during the same center of the arts and letters, period in Isfahan, the capital of the thanks to the encouragement of its Empire.After the fall of the ruler and the presence of many Safavids, Shiraz suffered a period of Persian scholars and artists. For this decline, worsened by the raids of reason the city was named by the Afghans and the rebellion of its classical geographers Dar al-‘Elm, governor against Nader Shah; the the House of Knowledge.Among latter sent troops to suppress the the Iranian poets, mystics and revolt. The city was besieged for philosophers born in Shiraz were many months and eventually the poets Sa'di and Hafiz,the sacked. At the time of Nader Shah's mystic Roozbehan, and the murder in 1747, most of the philosopher Mulla Sadra. Thus historical buildings of the city were Shiraz has been nicknamed "The damaged or ruined, and its Athens of Iran".As early as the population fell to 50,000, one11th century, several hundred quarter of that during the 16th thousand people inhabited Shiraz. century. In the 14th century Shiraz had sixty thousand inhabitants. During the Shiraz soon returned to prosperity 16th century it had a population under the rule of Karim Khan Zand, of 200,000 people, which by the who made it his capital in 1762. mid-18th century had decreased Employing more than 12,000 to only 50,000. workers, he constructed a royal district with a fortress, many In 1504, Shiraz was captured by the administrative buildings,
a mosque and one of the finest covered bazaars in Iran. He had a moat built around the city, constructed an irrigation and drainage system, and rebuilt the city walls.However, Karim Khan's heirs failed to secure his gains. When Agha Mohammad Khan, the founder of the Qajar dynasty, eventually came to power, he wreaked his revenge on Shiraz by destroying the city's fortifications and moving the national capital to Tehran. Although lowered to the rank of a provincial capital, Shiraz maintained a level of prosperity as a result of the continuing importance of the trade route to the Persian Gulf. Its governorship was a royal prerogative throughout the Qajar dynasty.Many of the famous gardens, buildings and residences built during this time contribute to the city's present skyline. Shiraz is the birthplace of the cofounder of the Bahá'í Faith, the Báb (Siyyid 'Ali-Muhammad, 1819– 1850). In this city, on the evening of 22 May 1844, he first declared his mission as the bearer of a new divine revelation. For this reason
Shiraz is a holy city for Bahá’ís, and the city, particularly the house of the Báb, was identified as a place of pilgrimage.Due to the hostile climate towards Baha'is in Iran, the house has been the target of repeated attacks; the house was destroyed in 1979, to be paved over two years later and made into a public square. Further information: 1910 Shiraz blood libel In 1910, a pogrom of the Jewish quarter started after false rumours that the Jews had ritually killed a Muslim girl. In the course of the pogrom, 12 Jews were killed and about 50 were injured,and 6,000 Jews of Shiraz were robbed of all their possessions. The city's role in trade greatly diminished with the opening of the trans-Iranian railway in the 1930s, as trade routes shifted to the ports in Khuzestan. Much of the architectural inheritance of Shiraz, and especially the royal district of the Zands, was either neglected or destroyed as a result of irresponsible town planning under the Pahlavi dynasty.
Lacking any great industrial, was re-established as the capital of religious or strategic importance, Iranian Art and Culture. Shiraz is Shiraz became an administrative known as the capital of Persian Art, center, although its population has Culture and Literature. nevertheless grown considerably Geography since the 1979 revolution. Shiraz is located in the south of Iran Modern times and the northwest of Fars Province. The city's municipality and other It is built in a green plain at the foot related institutions have initiated of the Zagros Mountains 1,500 restoration and reconstruction metres (4,900 feet) above sea level. projects. Shiraz is 919 kilometres (571 mi) Some of the most recent projects south of Tehran. have been the complete restoration of the Arg of Karim A seasonal river, Dry River, flows Khan and of the Vakil Bath, as well through the northern part of the as a comprehensive plan for the city and on into Maharloo preservation of the old city Lake.[citation needed] As of 1920, quarters. Other noteworthy the area had a large forest of oak initiatives include the total trees. renovation of the Qur'an Gate and the mausoleum of the poet Khwaju Kermani, both located in the Allahu-Akbar Gorge, as well as the restoration and expansion of the mausoleum of the famous Shirazborn poets Hafiz and Saadi. Several different construction projects are currently underway that will modernize the city's infrastructure. The Shiraz 1400 chain of projects is set to transform the city. After the Iranian Revolution, Shiraz
Michael McEvoy deconstruct, or dissolve. It seeks Belfast Northern Ireland born U.K. only to invite you to share my artist Michael McEvoy based in world. The world you may enter Nottingham. I studied art at Belfast when you find a forgotten and School of Art and at Manchester faded photograph at the back of a and Nottingham. I was the first art drawer. Or hear an old tune on the and design technician in the United radio. Or a home town accent when Kingdom for the City Technology you are far from home. Distant Colleges at The Djanogly C.T.C memories, happy days, a coffee on college. From 2008, full time free the pier. As an artist I will never be lance artist and life drawing tutor. without inspiration as even alone, a While an accomplished artist in human gazes back from the mirror. etching and engraving, acrylic and water colour painting and wood carving. I have painted in oils for several years. My subject matter mainly concentrates on figurative art or portraits. Often relating to experiences from life or from memories of my childhood’s whimsical imagination. They all have a story to unfold. I have exhibited in the North and Midlands England and Northern Ireland. Painting private commissions the UK and Ireland, U.S.A. Canada, China and Thailand. I have paintings in private collections throughout the world. Artist Statement My art does not seek to shock, affront, distort, 22
My painting styles are contemporary, yet classical / traditional / realist and occasionally naive or impressionist. At times a mixture of styles and nearly always narrative paintings. The composition and technique I use is influenced and inspired by the realism and romanticism of my favourite renaissance Masters. Their wonderful, timeless masterpieces and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Predominantly figurative. The tendency of my artwork is towards carefully composed anonymity. Capturing the emotions and self belief of the subject, rather than characteristic individual representation. The creation of figurative artwork not only depicts the emotions of the artist. It transforms the artist’s emotions.
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