The NYU Art Collection includes seven works on paper from Morteza Momayez’s Mythological Antic series. Momayez, best known as a practicing graphic designer, was actively involved in an influential workshop at the University of Tehran that produced posters for various political groups during the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Although this particular work dates from the […]
Like many in his generation of artists in Iran, Malek reinterprets elements of his Persian heritage via a modern visual vocabulary. In Centaur, he recasts a Greek mythological figure, half human and half horse, in a style recalling traditional Persian textiles and designs—while he builds the abstracted figure, composed of geometric shapes, on Cubist principles. […]
Along with Hossein Kazemi (whose work is also represented in the NYU Art Collection) and Houshang Ajoudani, Mahmud Javadipour founded Apadana, the first art gallery in Tehran, in September 1949. Although it remained open for less than a year, it quickly became a gathering site for intellectuals. Javidipour’s own work, impressionistic paintings of village life, […]
