History of art(west and Iranian)-contemporary art

1. Bahram Alivandi
Henry S.H. Young
Andy Warhol
Amanda J Aspinall
Hector Sandoval
Sohrab Sepehri
Aziz Anzabi
Aziz Art July
2015
IRAN-Kandovan
Iran
competition

2. 1-Bahram Alivandi
5-Henry S.H. Young
7-Andy Warhol
12-Hector Sandoval
13-competition
14-Sohrab Sepehri
19-Aziz Anzabi
20-Amanda J Aspinall
21-Iran Rocky hotel
Director: Aziz Anzabi
Editor and translator :
Asra Yaghoubi
Research: Zohreh
Nazari
http://www.aziz-anzabi.com

3. Near Winter, when the northern
sun began to lose colour
The pricking pain of the vicious
wind comes,
In the form of a fog
A new chapter in my life begins.
There was no news from the
eastern warm sun,
The heat was just a fairy tale.
Suddenly I found myself trapped
forever,
Like the people in Siberia who
are victimized to stay
The feeling of everything being
a foreigner flowed everywhere ,
and I was the captain of the
deep to infinity
A motion began with grief that
did not have a end to the story
My heart's joy and passion
oozed onto my hands and
skipped a beat to be built.
To create a new thing that is
very familiar to me,
more familiar than my body
with me.
And more colour hugged the
forgotten ones ,
Until my life's new chapter
blossomed in Glasgow.
Aziz Anzabi

5. Bahram Alivandi (1928-21 May 2012) was an Iranian-born
Modern artist living in Vienna, Austria. He is known primarily for his
paintings, which typically depict stories from Persian mythology and
literature, and express oriental mysticism. He has also produced a
number of wall tapestries that, like his works on canvas, demonstrate
his own instantly recognisable visual language.
Biography
Ferdowsi and His Mythos, c.1980s, Vienna, Private Collection. Oil
on canvas, 200 x 150 cm.
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6. Alivandi was born in Fars Province
in the South of Iran in 1928. He
gained his artistic training in
Tehran, initially at the Kamal-ol-
Molk Academy of Art, then under
the tuition of French masters at
Tehran's School of Fine Arts (closely
modeled on the French École des
Beaux-Arts), from which he
graduated with distinction. He
completed a further degree in
painting at the College of
Decorative Arts, Tehran.
In 1959 he was appointed by the
Ministry of Education, teaching
painting at the Workshop of
National Art and the Kamal-ol-Molk
Academy of Art, a post that he held
for 20 years. During this time he
practiced a variety of traditional
Persian arts such as the Miniature,
Ceramics, Tapestries, and
Silversmithery.
During this time Alivandi was one
of Iran's leading modernists, but he
left Iran several years after the
Islamic revolution of 1979 to
escape the repression and
censorisation of all free artistic
expression. Alivandi joined the
National Council of Resistance of
Iran in 1994 and was a member of
the Council until his death on May
12, 2012. He lived and worked in
Vienna from 1983 to 2012.
Alivandi belongs to a respected
generation of Iranian artists who
are important figures in
contemporary Iranian art, including
Massoud Arabshahi, Nasser Ovissi,
and Parviz Tanavoli, to all of whom
he is well known.
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7. Artistic style
Simorgh (The Conference of the
Birds), c.1980s, Vienna, Private
Collection. Oil on canvas,
200 x 150 cm.
Alivandi's work is rich in
symbolism and oriental motifs,
such as the fish, gazelle, and horse,
which are traditional motifs of
Persian miniatures.
He is influenced by
Persian culture, depicting
characters and stories from
legends and epic poetry by
important figures like Ferdowsi
and Farid ad-Din Attar.
Outstanding works include a series
of large-scale oil paintings
executed in the 1980s which
depict such important figures as
Mithra, Jesus Christ, the Simorgh,
and Ferdowsi himself. Some of his
work is influenced by the war
situation and the repression of his
native Iran, and expresses the pain
and suffering of his people.
In terms of technique his work is
at times traditional and at times
highly original. Alivandi's early
paintings, including those from
the 1980s, use the now-traditional
medium of oil on canvas, yet his
aesthetic style, which recalls the
stained glass of medieval churches,
is highly personal. During the 1990s
Alivandi continued to work in oils,
but abandoned the traditional
canvas, choosing instead to apply
his paints directly to newspaper; a
method pioneered by the cubists in
the early 1900s. Since circa 2000,
he increasingly works with the
angelique pointillage technique (as
seen in the image on the right), a
unique method of painting with
extremely small dots of ink which
are then covered with a layer of
veneer to lock and intensify the
colours. This innovative pointillist
technique has resulted in the many
striking works that demonstrate the
beauty of his composition and the
power of his vision. According to
one critic, his masterful blending of
hues has earned him the title "the
magician of colours".
Alivandi's paintings are typically on
a large scale, yet even so they
demonstrate the immense skill of
his hand in their intricate detail.
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9. Henry S.H. Young
Henry has over three decades of
experience in sales, promotion and
marketing art as well as purchasing and
curating many collections of art. He is
ready to assist in locating, collecting and
curating a personal or corporate fine art
collection. He is also currently seeking
employment at Corporate or Gallery
level. Henry has had many experiences
in which include: being a sales manager,
managing director, assistant director just
within
6 years of time! He continued his
education of 13 years of going through
the vaults of Prints and Drawing
Department being assessed by Sam
Carini and Senior Curator .He has also
gone to BFA , University of Hawaii. Henry
has worked as a Designer, Illustrator,
Sculptor and a Photographer.
He is also currently working as a private
fine Art Consultant, Fine Art Appraiser
and Curator ,activity in Las Vegas and
Nevada area . Henry worked for many
galleries in the subject of Fine Art
Consultant and private collector to
collect the best artworks in their
collection.
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11. Andy Warhol
August 6, 1928 – February 22,
1987
was an American artist who was a
leading figure in the visual art
movement known as pop art. His
works explore the relationship
between artistic expression,
celebrity culture
and advertisement that flourished
by the 1960s.
After a successful career as a
commercial illustrator, Warhol
became a renowned and
sometimes controversial artist. The
Andy Warhol Museum in his native
city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds
an extensive permanent collection
of art and archives. It is the largest
museum in the United States
dedicated to a single artist.
Warhol's art used many types of
media, including hand drawing,
painting, printmaking, photography,
silk screening, sculpture, film, and
music. He was also a pioneer in
computer-generated art using
Amiga computers that were
introduced in 1984, two years
before his death. He founded
Interview Magazine and was the
author of numerous books,
including The Philosophy of Andy
Warhol and Popism: The Warhol
Sixties. He managed and produced
the Velvet Underground, a rock
band which had a strong influence
on the evolution of punk rock
music. He is also notable as a gay
man who lived openly as such
before the gay liberation
movement. His studio, The Factory,
was a famous gathering place that
brought together distinguished
intellectuals, drag queens,
playwrights, Bohemian street
people, Hollywood celebrities, and
wealthy patrons.
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12. Warhol has been the subject of
numerous retrospective
exhibitions, books, and feature
and documentary films.
He coined the widely used
expression "15 minutes of fame".
Many of his creations are very
collectible and highly valuable.
The highest price ever paid for a
Warhol painting is US$105 million
for a 1963 canvas titled "Silver Car
Crash (Double Disaster)". A 2009
article in The Economist described
Warhol as the "bellwether of the
art market". Warhol's works
include some of the most
expensive paintings ever sold.
Early life
Andy Warhol (originally Andrew
Warhola, Jr.) was born
on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. He was the fourth
child of Ondrej Warhola
(Americanized as Andrew Warhola,
Sr., 1889–1942) and Julia (née
Zavacká, 1892–1972),whose first
child was born in their homeland
and died before their move to the
U.S. Andy had two older brothers,
Paul (June 26, 1922 – January 30,
2014) and John Warhola (May 31,
1925 – December 24, 2010).
His parents were working-class
Lemko emigrants from Mikó (now
called Miková), located in today's
northeastern Slovakia, part of the
former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Warhol's father immigrated to the
United States in 1914, and his
mother joined him in 1921, after
the death of Warhol's
grandparents.
Warhol's father worked in a coal
mine. The family lived at 55 Beelen
Street and later at 3252 Dawson
Street in the Oakland
neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The
family was Byzantine Catholic and
attended St. John Chrysostom
Byzantine Catholic Church. Andy
Warhol had two older brothers—
Pavol (Paul), the oldest, was born
before the family emigrated; Ján
was born in Pittsburgh. Pavol's son,
James Warhola, became a
successful children's book
illustrator. About 1939, he started
to collect autographed cards of film
stars.
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13. In third grade, Warhol had
Sydenham's chorea (also known
as St. Vitus' Dance), the nervous
system disease that causes
involuntary movements of the
extremities, which is believed
to be a complication of scarlet
fever which causes skin
pigmentation blotchiness. He
became a hypochondriac,
developing a fear of hospitals and
doctors. Often bedridden as a
child, he became an outcast at
school and bonded with
his mother.
At times when he was confined to
bed, he drew, listened to the radio
and collected pictures of movie
stars around his bed. Warhol later
described this period as very
important in the development of
his personality, skill-set and
preferences. When Warhol was 13,
his father died in an accident.
As a teenager, Warhol graduated
from Schenley High School in 1945.
After graduating from high school,
his intentions were to study art
education at the University of
Pittsburgh in the hope of becoming
an art teacher, but his plans
changed and he enrolled in the
Carnegie Institute of Technology in
Pittsburgh, where he studied
commercial art. During his time
there, Warhol joined the campus
Modern Dance Club and Beaux Arts
Society. He also served as art
director of the student art
magazine, Cano, illustrating a cover
in 1948 and a full-page interior
illustration in 1949.These are
believed to be his first two
published artworks. Warhol earned
a Bachelor of Fine Arts in pictorial
design in 1949. Later that year, he
moved to New York City and began
a career in magazine illustration
and advertising.
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14. Death
Warhol died in Manhattan at 6:32
am on February 22, 1987.
According to news reports, he had
been making good recovery from a
routine gallbladder surgery at New
York Hospital before dying in his
sleep from a sudden
post-operative cardiac arrhythmia.
Prior to his diagnosis and
operation, Warhol delayed having
his recurring gallbladder problems
checked, as he was afraid to enter
hospitals
and see doctors. His family sued
the hospital for inadequate care,
saying that the arrhythmia was
caused by improper care and water
intoxication. The malpractice case
was quickly settled out of court;
Warhol's family received an
undisclosed sum of money.
Warhol's body was taken back to
Pittsburgh by his brothers for
burial. The wake was at Thomas P.
Kunsak Funeral Home and was an
open-coffin ceremony. The coffin
was a solid bronze casket with gold
plated rails and white upholstery.
Warhol was dressed in a black
cashmere suit, a paisley tie, a
platinum wig, and sunglasses. He
was posed holding a small prayer
book and a red rose. The funeral
liturgy was held at the Holy Ghost
Byzantine Catholic Church on
Pittsburgh's North Side. The eulogy
was given by Monsignor Peter Tay.
Yoko Ono and John Richardson
were speakers. The coffin was
covered with white roses and
asparagus ferns. After the liturgy,
the coffin was driven to St. John the
Baptist Byzantine Catholic
Cemetery in Bethel Park, a south
suburb of Pittsburgh.
At the grave, the priest said a brief
prayer and sprinkled holy water on
the casket. Before the coffin was
lowered, Paige Powell dropped a
copy of Interview magazine, an
Interview T-shirt, and a bottle of
the Estee Lauder perfume
"Beautiful" into the grave. Warhol
was buried next to his mother and
father. A memorial service was held
in Manhattan for Warhol on April 1,
1987, at St. Patrick's Cathedral,
New York
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16. Hector Sandoval is a visual artist
originally from Mexico City, who is
currently living in London, UK.
Hector graduated from the
Universidad Iberoamericana with a
Degree in Graphic Design. He
dedicated the first part of his career
to graphic design, print, advertising
and marketing. He worked
extensively in display, retail, visual
merchandising, and subsequently
interior design, and theming for
amusements parks in Mexico and
United States.
For several years Hector worked in
American Television Univision as
set designer with significant
contributions to various top TV
show productions. Hector has a
passion for visual arts and is
involved in artistic workshops in
Mexico and UK.
In his paintings, Hector Sandoval
finds a passion for colour and
balance, technique and creativity.
His work has assertiveness and
reflects figures in enigmatic ways.
Hector has had the honor of having
the opportunity to exhibit his work
over different countries such as UK,
Spain and Germany. Recently his
solo show “The Source”.
His major goal is finding freedom
that allows him to get into a higher
level of expressions.
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17. 5 Year Anniversary Exhibition Dates: September 1 - 30, 2015
Entry Deadline: Thursday, July 16, 2015 @ Midnight
Dacia Gallery is pleased to invite emerging and established artists to
submit artwork for an opportunity to participate in Dacia Gallery's 5
Year Anniversary Exhibition this September. This is a very special
exhibition for us with a huge public response from collectors to media
and curators that we want to share with you. We are looking for a
diverse body of artwork based on the figure and portrait in all
mediums and styles, this will be a group show comprised of figurative
artwork created by contemporary artists, exhibiting what is being
created on today. This exhibition will be in conjunction with Dacia
Gallery figurative artists and a celebration of figurative art and Dacia
Gallery. The gallery will advertise and promote the selected artists for
the exhibition and host a formal Opening Reception for the exhibition,
including an Artist Talk during the opening reception.
For more info and to apply please visit our website:
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18. Sohrab Sepehri (October 7, 1928 –
April 21, 1980)
was a notable Persian poet and a
painter.
He was born in Kashan. He is
considered to be one of the five
most famous Persian (Iranian)
poets who have practiced "New
Poetry" (a kind of poetry that often
has neither meter nor rhyme).
Other practitioners of this form
were Nima Yushij, Ahmad Shamlou,
Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, and Forough
Farrokhzad.
Sohrab Sepehri was also one of
Iran's foremost modernist painters.
Sepehri died in Pars hospital in
Tehran of leukemia. His poetry is
full of humanity and concern for
human values. He loved nature and
refers to it frequently.
Well-versed in Buddhism, mysticism
and Western traditions, he mingled
the Western concepts with Eastern
ones, thereby creating a kind of
poetry unsurpassed in the history
of Persian literature. To him, new
forms were new means to express
his thoughts and feelings.
His poetry has been translated into
many languages including English,
French, Spanish, German, Italian,
Swedish, Arabic, Turkish and
Russian.
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19. Bibliography
Hasht Ketab (Eight Books) 1976
The Death of Color 1951
The Life of Dreams 1953
Us nil, us a look Was not published
until 1977
Downpour of Sunshine 1958
East of Sorrow 1961
The Oasis of Now (1965)
translated by Kazim Ali with
Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, BOA
Editions, 2013.
The Wayfarer 1966
The Green Space 1967
Works cited[edit]
The Lover Is Always Alone. Trans.
Karim Emami. Tehran: Sokhan,
Sepehri, Sohrab, and Riccardo
Zipoli. While poppies bloom: Poems
and Panoramas. Trans. Karim
Emami. Tehran: Zarrin-o-Simin
Books, 2005.
Bidi, Hamed. "Where Are My
Shoes?" While Poppies Bloom. 12
Oct 2006. 24 Oct 2000
Valiabdi, Mostafa.
Hichestan.Tehran: Tiam, 2005.
Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad. Hasht
Ketab: Professor Hakkak's view on
the Sepehri's esthetic vision and
significance.United States: Ketabe
Gooya, 2005.
Sepehri, Parvaneh. The Blue Room.
Tehran: Gooya, 2003.
Sepehri, Paridokht. Wherever I am,
let me be! Tehran: Peykan, 2005.
Sayar, Pirouz. Paintings and
Drawings Of Sohrab Sepehri.
Tehran: Soroush Press, 2002.
Sepehri, Paridokht. Sohrab, the
Migratory Bird. Tehran: Tahouri,
1996.
Hamid Siahpoush. The Lonely
Garden: Sohrab Sepehri's
Remembrance. Tehran: Negah,
2003.
Sohrab Sepehri's life timeline
Born in 1928 – Kashan – Iran
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20. He hosted a painting exhibition -
Tehran 1944
He published his first poetry book
that followed by a few other books
in the same year - 1951
He graduated from the fine arts
university with B.A. degree in
painting - Tehran – 1953
He translated some Japanese
poetry into Persian and published
them in a literary magazine called
Sokhan – 1955
He traveled to Paris and attended
the Paris Fine Arts School in
lithography – 1957
He traveled to Tokyo to further his
studies in lithography and wood
carving – 1960
On the way back to Iran from
Japan, he visited India and became
familiar with the ideology of
Buddhism – 1961
He published three books in poetry
– 1960
He traveled to India again and
visited several cities and provinces
– 1964
He traveled to Pakistan and
Afghanistan 1964
He traveled to Europe and visited
several countries such as
Germany,England,France,Spain,the
Netherlands,Italy and Austria –
1966
He published some long poems
after he returned to Iran – 1966
He hosted a painting exhibition in
Tehran 1967
He published another book in
poetry 1967
He traveled to Greece and Egypt –
1974
He published his final book called
‘Hasht Ketab' (Eight Books), which
was the collection of almost all of
his published poems in one volume
– 1976
He got blood cancer and traveled to
England for treatment – 1978
Unfortunately, his attempt to
defeat cancer brought him no
result. He returned to Iran and died
in Pars Hospital in Tehran on
Monday April 21, 1980.
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22. Up in heaven

23. Up in heaven:
This work inspires me in a way
that makes me think about stories
by just looking at it. There is a
isolated man in the middle of the
canvas,
featureless as if the artist, Aziz
Anzabi wanted to just show
that the aged man is not able
to explain his perception or
show it through his fine features.
The artist has used a mix media
style creating different effects e.g.
the paint has flawlessly moved
from a light brown to a darker
shade creating a 3d effect on
the cubes that support the man's
body. What really catches my eyes
though is the piece of paper
clinging to the
man's face, shielding his eyes and
nose like someone is trying to keep
the man away from seeing the
world.
The interesting fact is that the
paper is crumbled as if it has no
meaning and is not plain
but has a little Iranian symbol of a
decently dressed women reaching
for the skies/ flying. The artist has
added substantial amount of detail
to the miniature lady. The
venerable man has opened his
mouth as if he is trying to complain
but is helplessly slumped on the
cube shaped objects for backing
and is tightly holding on to one of
them with his short fingers. But
even though he seems like he is
having a horrible experience he has
slouched on his back and is very
relaxed. You could tell that he is
comfortable because he has folded
over his two legs like it was very
typical to have a paper covering
half of his face. This painting
penetrates your thoughts and
makes you focus on the story of it
or if it . The man is obviously aged
due to his grizzled beard and his
unkempt long hair that is black but
heavily flecked with grey strands.
He is quit bony at the arms and ribs
but considerable muscular at the
thigh. The background is quite dull
and dark with creamy chocolate
brown
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24. Amanda J Aspinall
Abstract / Expressionist / Sculptures
As a Abstract Artist, I display work,
which is strong and bold. My
abstract paintings are influenced by
my fascination with colour and
texture. I am happy to experiment
with different mediums and
techniques in order to reach the
desired final result. inspired by the
amazing Jackson Pollock and many
more wonderful Artist. I allow
myself to be very open-minded so
that I maintain a fluid creative
process. By having exhibitions and
promoting my work I have
generated a keen interest
throughout the world.
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25. Iran- East Azerbaijan
Kandovan Rural District
inside - Laleh Kandovan International Rocky
Hotel
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26. Kandovan is a village in Sahand
Rural District, in the Central District
of Osku County, East Azerbaijan
Province, Iran. This village
exemplifies manmade cliff
dwellings which are still inhabited.
The troglodyte homes, excavated
inside volcanic rocks and tuffs
similar to dwellings in the Turkish
region of Cappadocia, are locally
called "Karaan". Karaan were cut
into the Lahars (volcanic mudflow
or debris flow) of Mount Sahand.
The cone form of the houses is the
result of lahar flow consisting of
porous round and angular pumice
together with other volcanic
particles that were positioned in a
grey acidic matrix. After the
eruption of Sahand these materials
were naturally moved and formed
the rocks of Kandovan. Around the
village the thickness of this
formation exceeds 100 m and with
time due to water erosion the cone
shaped cliffs were formed. At the
2006 census, the village population
was 601, in 168 families.
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27. Every time
Every where

28. TABRIZ BAZZAAR
IRAN
http://www.aziz-anzabi.com