Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (Persian: منیر شاهرودی فرمانفرمائیان; 16 December 1922 - 20 April 2019) was an Iranian artist and a collector of traditional folk art. She is noted for having been one of the most prominent Iranian artists of the contemporary period, and she was the first artist to achieve an artistic practice that weds the geometric patterns and cut. Monir Farmanfarmaian, (born January 13, 1923, Qazvin, Iran—died April 20, 2019, Tehrān), Iranian artist who was known for her mirror mosaics and geometric drawings that bore witness to her cosmopolitan perspective, informed by a life journey that encompassed Persian culture and the Western art world. Shahroudy was the youngest child of.
Monir Farmanfarmaian, 96, Dies; Artist Melded Islam and the Abstract The New York Times
Or a point can become three leading to a triangle, or four to a square, five to a pentagon, hexagon, octagon, and so on — it's endless. I was inspired by the geometry I found in old mosques with their tile, metal, wood, and plaster work.". - Monir Farmanfarmaian in conversation with Lauren Oneil Butler in: Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian. The Legacy of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian. As the first internationally famous Iranian woman artist, Monir opened the way for others to follow, although it is difficult to gauge her precise influence on any individual artist. She was the first Iranian woman to have a museum in Tehran dedicated exclusively to her work, and the first Iranian. Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, an Iranian artist whose mirror-encrusted geometric compositions drew on both Islamic architecture and the abstractions of the postwar New York avant-garde, died on. Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (Persian: منیر شاهرودی فرمانفرمائیان; 16 December 1922 - 20 April 2019) was an Iranian artist and a collector of traditional folk art.She is noted for having been one of the most prominent Iranian artists of the contemporary period, and she was the first artist to achieve an artistic practice that weds the geometric patterns and cut.
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian Infinite Possibility. Mirror Works and Drawings Exhibition at
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian died on 20 April in Tehran, aged 97. Monir Shahroudy, as she was born, was raised in the northern Iranian city of Qazvin among peach, almond and walnut trees. Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian died on 20 April in Tehran, aged 97. Monir Shahroudy, as she was born, was raised in the northern Iranian city of Qazvin among peach, almond and walnut trees. Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian was a contemporary Iranian artist known for transforming Persian pictorial language into Modernist forms. View Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian's artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Great Iranian Artist, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian died, what a loss, 1st female artist with own museum in Iran, visited Museum i #Negarestan Park Tehran just yesterday for 1st time pic.twitter.
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian — Freunde von Freunden
Monir Farmanfarmaian: A Mirror Garden. November 18, 2022 - April 9, 2023. This is the first posthumous exhibition at an American museum for Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1922-2019), one of Iran's most celebrated and revered visual artists, known internationally for her geometric mirror sculptures that combine the mathematical order and. We are deeply saddened to learn of the recent passing of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1924-2019) on Saturday 20 April. Over a career of six decades, Farmanfarmaian created art that was at once radical and deeply invested in tradition. She drew from Iranian architecture, the traditions of Islamic geometry and pattern, as well as techniques.
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, an Iranian artist whose work is included in the collections of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and London's Victoria and Albert Museum, has lived through. MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN (1922 - 2019) Born in Qazvin, Iran in 1922, Monir's distinguished career spanned more than six decades. Incorporating traditional reverse glass painting, mirror mosaics and principles of Islamic geometry with a modern sensibility, her sculptures and installations defy easy categorization.
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Iranian artist, dies CNN Style
But the work of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian had a different source, not in Warhol's Factory or Matthattan's Studio 54 nightclub but beneath the crystalline high-domed hall of the Shah. This is the first U.S. museum exhibition of mirror works and drawings by Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (b. Qazvin, Iran, 1924).
