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Aziz Art
Sep 2015
M i c h e l a n g e l o Aziz Anzabi Exhibition
YAZD- Iran
1.Mahmoud Farshchian 7. Michelangelo 20. Aziz Anzabi 21. Competition 22. Exhibition 23. Yazd -Iran I see him protracted in the shadow across. And Human voice that was wet in the rain. I opened the corridors of time. By a wet hand, Lilies upside down on soil. And I saw that, for lack of water I wanted Light. By Aziz Anzabi
Director: Aziz Anzabi Editor and translator : Asra Yaghoubi Research: Zohreh Nazari
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Mahmoud Farshchian born January 24, 1930 is a master where he studied the works of the of Persian painting and miniatures. great Western masters of Painting. He was born in the city of Isfahan in Iran, a place famed for its art and artists, and it was here where he started to learn art, painting and sculpting. His masterpieces have been hosted by several museums and exhibitions worldwide. He's the most modernizer of the field of miniatures, an art form which was first established in Ancient Persia and later spread to China and Turkey and other Middle eastern countries Consequently, he developed an innovative artistic style with Life universal appealUpon his return to Master Mahmoud Farshchian was Iran, he began to work at the born in the city of Isfahan on National Institute of Fine Arts January 24, 1930. His father, a rug (which later became the Ministry of merchant, was an art aficionado Art and Culture) and, in time, was who instilled a love for the arts in appointed director of the his son. Young Mahmoud showed Department of National Arts and an interest in arts quite early in life professor at the university of and studied under the tutelage of Tehran's School of Fine Arts. All the Haji Mirza-Agha Emami and Isa while, word of his exemplary works Bahadori for several years. After spread far and wide beyond receiving his diploma from national borders.. Isfahan's high school for the fine 1 arts, Farshchian left for Europe,
He has been exhibited in 57 individual shows and 86 group shows in Iran, Europe, America and Asian countries. His works are represented in several museums and major collections worldwide. He has been awarded more than ten prizes by various art institutes and cultural centers. He has a doctorate (grade 1 in arts) in Iranian painting and Islamic arts from the High Council of Culture and Art.
Master Farshchian currently resides in New Jersey. His son Alimorad Farshchian MD is a doctor of medicine who practices in the state of Florida. His daughter Leila Farshchian-Moradmand BCBA is a behaviour analyst and resides in New Jers.
"The Museum of Master Mahmoud Farshchian", is a museum devoted to the works of the master, which has been set up by the Cultural Heritage Foundation in the Sa'dabad Style Cultural Complex in Tehran, Farshchian is the founder of his inaugurated in 2001. own school in Iranian Painting, which adheres to classical form The design of the Zarih while making use of new (the box-like latticed enclosure techniques to broaden the scope of which is placed on top of the Iranian painting. He has brought tomb), roof, door and cellar in the new life to this art form and has shrine of the 8th shiite Imam, Ali freed it from the symbiotic ibn Mus'ar-Reza in Mashhad and relationship it has historically had his membership in the committee with poetry and literature, to give it supervising the construction of the an independence it had not shrine, is another artistic work of previously enjoyed. 2 the master.
His powerful and innovative August 2, 2007. paintings are dynamic, expansive and vibrant canvases with an appealing fusion of the traditional and the modern, which are constituents of his unique style of painting. Master Farshchian has played a decisive role in introducing Iranian art to the international art scene. He has been invited to speak and exhibit at numerous universities and art institutes. There have been six books and countless articles published about Farshchian works. In 2007 British-Omani designer Amr Ali used Farshchian painting The Fifth Day of Creation as the main influence for his collection presented at London Fashion Week.
Farshchian and Rumi Farshchian work “Shams and Rumi,” has been inspired by one of Rumi’s poems. Special colors have been used in the painting to feature the mystical and spiritual relationship that existed between Shams and Rumi. The painting took two months to complete in the U.S. and was unveiled at the Farshchian Art and Cultural Complex in Isfahan on
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo , was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Considered as the greatest living artist in his lifetime, he has since been held as one of the greatest artists of all time.Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.
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Two of his best-known works, the PietĂ and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. As an architect, Michelangelo pioneered the Mannerist style at the Laurentian Library. At the age of A number of his works in painting, 74 he succeeded Antonio da sculpture, and architecture rank Sangallo the Younger as the among the most famous in architect of St. Peter's Basilica. existence. His output in every field Michelangelo transformed the plan, during his long life was prodigious; the western end being finished to when the sheer volume of Michelangelo's design, the dome correspondence, sketches, and being completed after his death reminiscences that survive is also with some modification. taken into account, he is the best7 documented artist of the 16th
In a demonstration of Michelangelo's unique standing, he was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive. Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime; one of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries.
In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino ("the divine one"). One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilità , a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance. Early life, 1475–88 Michelangelo was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese near Arezzo, Tuscany.(Today, Caprese is known as Caprese Michelangelo).
For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence, the bank had failed and his father, Ludovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni, briefly took a government post in Caprese, where Michelangelo was born.[2] At the time of Michelangelo's birth, his father was the Judicial administrator of the small town of Caprese and local administrator of Chiusi. Michelangelo's mother was Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena.[6] The Buonarrotis claimed to descend from the Countess Mathilde of Canossa; this claim remains unproven, but Michelangelo himself believed it.[7] Several months after Michelangelo's birth, the family returned to Florence, where Michelangelo was raised. At later times, during his mother's prolonged illness and after her death in 1481, when he was just six years old, Michelangelo lived with a stonecutter and his wife and family in the town of Settignano, where his father owned a marble quarry and a small farm.[6] Giorgio Vasari quotes Michelangelo: 8
Apprenticeships, 1488–92 As a young boy, Michelangelo was sent to Florence to study grammar under the Humanist Francesco da Urbino.[5][8][b] The young artist, however, showed no interest in his schooling, preferring to copy paintings from churches and seek the company of painters.
contained a gallery of works by the greatest sculptors of Florence, Donatello, Ghiberti, Verrocchio, and Nanni di Banco.The interiors of the older churches were covered with frescos, mostly in the Late Medieval style, but also in the Early Renaissance style, begun by Giotto and continued by Masaccio in the Brancacci Chapel, both of whose works Michelangelo studied and copied in drawings. During Michelangelo's childhood, a team of painters had been called from Florence to the Vatican, in order to decorate the walls of the Sistine Chapel. Among them was Domenico Ghirlandaio, a master of the technique of fresco painting, of perspective, figure drawing and portraiture. He had the largest workshop in Florence, at that period.
The city of Florence was at that time the greatest centre of the arts and learning in Italy. Art was sponsored by the Signoria (the town council), by the merchant guilds and by wealthy patrons such as the Medici and their banking associates. The Renaissance, a renewal of Classical scholarship and the arts, had its first flowering in Florence.In the early 1400s, the architect Brunelleschi had studied the remains of Classical buildings in Rome and created two churches, San Lorenzo's and Santo Spiritu, In 1488, at thirteen, Michelangelo which embodied the Classical was apprenticed to Ghirlandaio.. precepts. The sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti had laboured for fifty years to create the bronze doors of the Baptistry, which Michelangelo was to describe as "The Gates of Paradise". The exterior niches of 9 the Church of Or' San Michele
When he was only fourteen, his disfigurement which is conspicuous father persuaded Ghirlandaio to in all the portraits of Michelangelo pay his apprentice as an artist, which was highly unusual at the Bologna, Florence and Rome, time. When in 1489, Lorenzo de' 1492–99 Medici, de facto ruler of Florence, asked Ghirlandaio for his two best Michelangelo's Pietà, St Peter's pupils, Ghirlandaio sent Basilica (1498–99) Michelangelo and Francesco Lorenzo de' Medici's death on 8 Granacci. From 1490 to 1492, April 1492 brought a reversal of Michelangelo attended the Michelangelo's circumstances. Humanist academy which the Michelangelo left the security of Medici had founded along Neo the Medici court and returned to Platonic lines. At the academy, his father's house. In the following both Michelangelo's outlook and months he carved a polychrome his art were subject to the wooden Crucifix (1493), as a gift to influence of many of the most the prior of the Florentine church prominent philosophers and of Santo Spirito, which had allowed writers of the day including him to do some anatomical studies Marsilio Ficino, Pico della of the corpses of the church's Mirandola and Poliziano. At this hospital.[21] Between 1493 and time, Michelangelo sculpted the 1494 he bought a block of marble, reliefs Madonna of the Steps and carved a larger than life statue (1490–1492) and Battle of the of Hercules, which was sent to Centaurs (1491–1492). The latter France and subsequently was based on a theme suggested disappeared sometime circa 18th by Poliziano and was century. On 20 January 1494, after commissioned by Lorenzo de heavy snowfalls, Lorenzo's heir, Medici. Michelangelo worked for a Piero de Medici, commissioned a time with the sculptor Bertoldo di snow statue, and Michelangelo Giovanni. When he was seventeen, again entered the court of the another pupil, Pietro Torrigiano, Medici. struck him on the nose, causing the 10
In the same year, the Medici were expelled from Florence as the result of the rise of Savonarola. Michelangelo left the city before the end of the political upheaval, moving to Venice and then to Bologna. In Bologna, he was commissioned to carve several of the last small figures for the completion of the Shrine of St. Dominic, in the church dedicated to that saint. At this time Michelangelo studied the robust reliefs carved by Jacopo della Quercia around main portal of the Basilica of St Petronius, including the panel of The Creation of Eve the composition of which was to reappear on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Towards the end of 1494, the political situation in Florence was calmer. The city, previously under threat from the French, was no longer in danger as Charles VIII had suffered defeats. Michelangelo returned to Florence but received no commissions from the new city government under Savonarola. He returned to the employment of the Medici. During the half year he spent in Florence, he worked on two small statues, a child St. John the Baptist and a sleeping Cupid 11
According to Condivi, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, for whom Michelangelo had sculpted St. John the Baptist, asked that Michelangelo "fix it so that it looked as if it had been buried" so he could "send it to Rome...pass an ancient work and … sell it much better." Both Lorenzo and Michelangelo were unwittingly cheated out of the real value of the piece by a middleman. Cardinal Raffaele Riario, to whom Lorenzo had sold it, discovered that it was a fraud, but was so impressed by the quality of the sculpture that he invited the artist to Rome. This apparent success in selling his sculpture abroad as well as the conservative Florentine situation may have encouraged Michelangelo to accept the prelate's invitation.Michelangelo arrived in Rome 25 June 1496 at the age of 21. On 4 July of the same year, he began work on a commission for Cardinal Raffaele Riario, an over-life-size statue of the Roman wine god Bacchus. Upon completion, the work was rejected by the cardinal, and subsequently entered the
Galli, for his garden. The Statue of David, completed by Michelangelo in 1504, is one of the most renowned works of the Renaissance. In November 1497, the French ambassador to the Holy See, Cardinal Jean de Bilhères-Lagraulas, commissioned him to carve a Pietà, a sculpture showing the Virgin Mary grieving over the body of Jesus. The subject, which is not part of the Biblical narrative of the Crucifixion, was common in religious sculpture of Medieval Northern Europe and would have been very familiar to the Cardinal. The contract was agreed upon in August of the following year. Michelangelo was 24 at the time of its completion. It was soon to be regarded as one of the world's great masterpieces of sculpture, "a revelation of all the potentialities and force of the art of sculpture". Contemporary opinion was summarized by Vasari: "It is certainly a miracle that a formless block of stone could ever have been reduced to a perfection that nature is scarcely able to create in the flesh." It is now located in St 12 Peter's Basilica.
Florence, 1499–1505 David (Michelangelo) Michelangelo returned to Florence in 1499. The republic was changing after the fall of anti-Renaissance Priest and leader of Florence, Girolamo Savonarola, (executed in 1498) and the rise of the gonfaloniere Piero Soderini. He was asked by the consuls of the Guild of Wool to complete an unfinished project begun 40 years earlier by Agostino di Duccio: a colossal statue of Carrara marble portraying David as a symbol of Florentine freedom, to be placed on the gable of Florence Cathedral. Michelangelo responded by completing his most famous work, the Statue of David, in 1504. The masterwork definitively established his prominence as a sculptor of extraordinary technical skill and strength of symbolic imagination. A team of consultants, including Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci, was called together to decide upon its placement, ultimately the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio. It now stands in the Academia while a replica
occupies its place in the square. With the completion of the David came another commission. In early 1504 Leonardo da Vinci had been commissioned in the council chamber of the Palazzo Vecchio depicting the Battle of Angiari between the forces of Florence and Milan in 1434. Michelangelo was then commissioned to paint the Battle of Cascina. The two paintings are very different, Leonardo's depicting soldiers fighting on horseback, and Michelangelo's showing soldiers being ambushed as they bathe in the river. Neither work was completed and both were lost when the chamber was refurbished. Both works were much admired and copies remain of them, Leonardo's work having been copied by Rubens and Michelangelo's by Bastiano da Sangallo. Also during this period, Michelangelo was commissioned by Angelo Doni to paint a "Holy Family" as a present for his wife, Maddalena Strozzi.
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It is known as the Doni Tondo and in 1516.Of the other statues hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in its intended for the tomb, two known original magnificent frame which as the Heroic Captive and the Dying Michelangelo may have Captive, are now in the Louvre. designed.He also may have painted During the same period, the Madonna and Child with John Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Baptist, known as the the Sistine Chapel, which took Manchester Madonna and now in approximately four years to the National Gallery, London, complete (1508–1512). According United Kingdom. to Condivi's account, Bramante, Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1505–12 who was working on the building of Michelangelo painted the ceiling St Peter's Basilica, resented of the Sistine Chapel; the work Michelangelo's commission for the took approximately four years to Pope's tomb and convinced the complete (1508–12) Pope to commission him in a In 1505, Michelangelo was invited medium with which he was back to Rome by the newly elected unfamiliar, in order that he might Pope Julius II. He was fail at the task. commissioned to build the Pope's tomb, which was to include forty statues and be finished in five years. Under the patronage of the Pope, Michelangelo experienced constant interruptions to his work on the tomb in order to accomplish numerous other tasks. Although Michelangelo worked on the tomb for 40 years, it was never finished to his satisfaction. It is located in the Church of S. Pietro in Vincoli in Rome and is most famous for the central figure of Moses, completed 15
Michelangelo was originally commissioned to paint the Twelve Apostles on the triangular pendentives that supported the ceiling, and cover the central part of the ceiling with ornament. Michelangelo persuaded Pope Julius to give him a free hand and proposed a different and more complex scheme, representing the Creation, the Fall of Man, the Promise of Salvation through the prophets, and the genealogy of Christ. The work is part of a larger scheme of decoration within the chapel which represents much of the doctrine of the Catholic Church. The composition stretches over 500 square metres of ceiling, and contains over 300 figures. At its centre are nine episodes from the Book of Genesis, divided into three groups: God's Creation of the Earth; God's Creation of Humankind and their fall from God's grace; and lastly, the state of Humanity as represented by Noah and his family. On the pendentives supporting the ceiling are painted twelve men and women who prophesied the coming of the
Jesus; seven prophets of Israel and five Sibyls, prophetic women of the Classical world.Among the most famous paintings on the ceiling are The Creation of Adam, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the Deluge, the Prophet Jeremiah and the Cumaean Sibyl. Florence under Medici popes 1513 – early 1534 In 1513, Pope Julius II died and was succeeded by Pope Leo X, the second son of Lorenzo dei Medici. Pope Leo commissioned Michelangelo to reconstruct the façade of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence and to adorn it with sculptures. He agreed reluctantly and spent three years creating drawings and models for the façade, as well as attempting to open a new marble quarry at Pietrasanta specifically for the project. In 1520 the work was abruptly cancelled by his financially strapped patrons before any real progress had been made. The basilica lacks a façade to this day. In 1520 the Medici came back to Michelangelo with another grand proposal, this time for a family funerary chapel in the Basilica of San Lorenzo. 16
Fortunately for posterity, this project, occupying the artist for much of the 1520s and 1530s, was more fully realized. Michelangelo used his own discretion to create its composition of the Medici Chapel. It houses the large tombs of two of the younger members of the Medici family, Giuliano, Duke of Nemours, and Lorenzo, his nephew, but it also serves to commemorate their more famous predecessors, Lorenzo the Magnificent and his brother Giuliano who are buried nearby. The tombs display statues of the two Medici and allegorical figures representing Night and Day, and Dusk and Dawn. The chapel also contains Michelangelo's Medici Madonna. In 1976 a concealed corridor was discovered with drawings on the walls that related to the chapel itself.
designed both the interior of the library itself and its vestibule, a building which utilises architectural forms with such dynamic effect that it is seen as the forerunner of Baroque architecture. It was left to assistants to interpret his plans and carry out instruction. The library was not opened until 1571 and the vestibule remained incomplete until 1904.
In 1527, the Florentine citizens, encouraged by the sack of Rome, threw out the Medici and restored the republic. A siege of the city ensued, and Michelangelo went to the aid of his beloved Florence by working on the city's fortifications from 1528 to 1529. The city fell in 1530 and the Medici were restored to power. Michelangelo fell out of favour with the young Alessandro Medici who had been installed as the first Duke of Florence, and Pope Leo X died in 1521, to be fearing for his life, he fled to Rome, succeeded briefly by the austere leaving assistants to complete the Adrian VI, then his cousin Giulio Medici chapel and the Laurentian Medici as Pope Clement VII. Library. Despite Michelangelo's In 1524 Michelangelo received an support of the republic and architectural commission from the resistance to the Medici rule, he Medici pope for the Laurentian was welco 17 Library at San Lorenzo's Church. He
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The Last Judgement (1534–41) In Rome, Michelangelo lived near the church of Santa Maria di Loreto. It was at this time that he met the poet, Vittoria Colonna, marchioness of Pescara, who was to become one of his closest friends until her death in 1547.Shortly before his death in 1534 Pope Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint a fresco of The Last Judgement on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel. His successor, Paul III was instrumental in seeing that Michelangelo began and completed the project. Michelangelo labored on the project from 1534 to October 1541.The fresco depicts the Second Coming of Christ and his Judgement of the souls. Michelangelo ignored the usual artistic conventions in portraying Jesus, and showed him a massive, muscular figure, youthful, beardless and naked. He is surrounded by saints, among
which Saint Bartholomew holds a drooping flayed skin, bearing the likeness of Michelangelo. The dead rise from their graves, to be consigned either to Heaven or to Hell.Once completed, the depiction of
Christ and the Virgin Mary naked was considered sacrilegious, and Cardinal Carafa and Monsignor Sernini (Mantua's ambassador) campaigned to have the fresco removed or censored, but the Pope resisted. At the Council of Trent, shortly before Michelangelo's death in 1564, it was decided to obscure the genitals and Daniele da Volterra, an apprentice of Michelangelo, was commissioned to make the alterations.An uncensored copy of the original, by Marcello Venusti, is in the Capodimonte Museum of Naples. Michelangelo worked on a number of architectural projects at this time. They included a design for the Capitoline Hill with its trapezoid piazza displaying the ancient bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius. He designed the upper floor of the Palazzo Farnese, and the interior of the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, in which he transformed the vaulted interior of an Ancient Roman bathhouse. Other architectural works include San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, the Sforza Chapel (Capella Sforza) in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore and the Porta Pia. 18
St Peter's Basilica, 1546–64 Main article: St Peter's Basilica § Architecture While still working on the Last Judgement, Michelangelo received yet another commission for the Vatican. This was for the painting of two large frescos in the Cappella Paolina depicting significant events in the lives of the two most important saints of Rome, the Conversion of Saint Paul and the Crucifixion of Saint Peter. Like the Last Judgement, these two works are complex compositions containing a great number of figures.They were completed in 1550. In the same year, Giorgio Vasari published his Vita, including a biography of Michelangelo.
to the concepts of Bramante, and developed his ideas for a centrally planned church, strengthening the structure both physically and visually.The dome, not completed until after his death, has been called by Banister Fletcher, "the greatest creation of the Renaissance". As construction was progressing on St Peter's, there was concern that Michelangelo would pass away before the dome was finished. However, once building commenced on the lower part of the dome, the supporting ring, the completion of the design was inevitable.
On 7 December 2007, a red chalk In 1546, Michelangelo was sketch for the dome of St Peter's appointed architect of St. Peter's Basilica, possibly the last made by Basilica, Rome. The process of Michelangelo before his death, was replacing the Constantinian basilica discovered in the Vatican archives. of the 4th century had been It is extremely rare, since he underway for fifty years and in destroyed his designs later in life. 1506 foundations had been laid to The sketch is a partial plan for one the plans of Bramante. Successive of the radial columns of the cupola architects had worked on it, but drum of Saint Peter's. little progress had been made. Michelangelo was persuaded to 19 take over the project. He returned
Another victory for Aziz Anzabi Art Basel Miami
Art Basel Miami is a competition for all Artists all around the world. In this competition artists were invited to design a poster or submit an image for a chance to be shown at the highest profile exhibition. Artists could participate in a creative campaign presented in partnership with ACT/ART, inspired by their partnership with the White House. The campaign is called #IAMTHEMANY Aziz Anzabi had yet another success by entering the competition, Naming his poster as I’m the outcast which he created by the theme of forced immigration. The style he used to create this poster is digital. His work will be shown in the white house and other places, in 2016 as he is one of the finalists.
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Yazd - Iran About this sound pronunciation is the capital of Yazd Province, Iran, and a centre of Zoroastrian culture. The city is located 270 km (170 mi) southeast of Isfahan. At the 2011 census, the population was 1,074,428 in 270 ŮŹ575families. Because of generations of adaptations to its desert surroundings, Yazd is an architecturally unique city. It is also known in Iran for the high quality of its handicrafts, especially silk weaving, and its confectionery.
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