Massoud Arabshahi Explained

Massoud Arabshahi
Native Name:مسعود عربشاهی
Birth Date:1935
Birth Place:Tehran, Pahlavi Iran
Death Date:September 16, 2019
Death Place:Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Alma Mater:College of Decorative Arts, Tehran
Occupation:Artist
Known For:oil paintings, bas-relief sculptures
Movement:Saqqakhaneh movement

Massoud Arabshahi (; 1935 – 2019), was an Iranian painter, and bas-relief sculptor.[1] [2] [3] He was a leading member of the Saqqakhaneh movement,[4] [5] [6] and was known for his conceptual artwork. Arabshahi had worked in Tehran, Paris, and California.

Early life and education

Massoud Arabshahi was born in 1935 in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran.[7] He has attended the Public High School for Fine Arts in Tehran.

In 1968, he graduated from the College of Decorative Arts at Tehran University (now University of Tehran). Arabshahi had studied painting under Shokouh Riazi.

Career

His sources of inspiration comprise Achaemenid and Assyrian art as well as Babylonian carvings and inscriptions. Combining tradition and modernity. Arabshahi held his first solo exhibition at the Iran-India Centre, Tehran, in 1964, four years before graduating from university.

Arabshahi work's was created in various mediums, including oil paint-on-canvas, architectural bas-reliefs, and other sculptures. Arabshahi's bas-reliefs were commissioned for the Office for Industry and Mining (1971), Tehran; and for the California Insurance Building (1985) in Santa Rosa, California, U.S..

Arabshahi played a pivotal role in the establishing the Iran Gallery in Tehran, founded in 1964 by Arabshahi, Mansoor Ghandriz, Rouin Pakbaz, Faramarz Pilaram, Sadegh Tabrizi, Mohammad-Reza Jodat, Ghobad Shiva, Sirus Malek, Farshid Mesghali, Parviz Mahallati, Morteza Momayez, and Hadi Hezareiy.[8] After the death of artist Mansoor Ghandriz in 1966, the Iran Gallery was renamed Ghandriz Gallery in his honor; and it remained open until the summer of 1978 during the Iranian Revolution.[9]

In 1975, Marcos Grigorian founded of the Group of Free Painters and Sculptors in Tehran.[10] The other founding artists included Arabshahi, Gholamhossein Nami, Morteza Momayez, Mir Abdolrez Daryabeigi, and Faramarz Pilaram.[11]

Arabshahi's work has been shown in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Iran, Europe and the United States including Two Modernist Iranian Pioneers, at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001; and Iranian Contemporary Art, Barbican Centre, London, 2001.

He died on September 16, 2019, in Tehran, Iran.

Prizes

Exhibitions

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Notes and References

  1. News: Rouhani . Behrouz . September 19, 2019 . مسعود عربشاهی، نقاشی که 'ویرانی آثارش را دید و تحمل کرد' . fa . Masoud Arabshahi, the painter who "saw and endured the destruction of his works" . BBC News فارسی . 2022-12-15.
  2. Book: Grigor, Talinn . Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio . 2014-06-15 . Reaktion Books . 978-1-78023-309-3 . 70–71, 79 . en.
  3. Web site: Blair . Sheila S. . Bloom . Jonathan M. . July 2, 2009 . Arabshahi, Massoud . subscription . 2022-12-15 . Grove Art Online . en . 10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t2082054.
  4. Book: Gharipour, Mohammad . Architectural Dynamics in Pre-Revolutionary Iran: Dialogic Encounter between Tradition and Modernity . 2019-10-15 . Intellect Books . 978-1-78938-059-0 . 39 . en.
  5. Book: Scheiwiller, Staci Gem . Performing the Iranian State: Visual Culture and Representations of Iranian Identity . 2014-11-01 . Anthem Press . 978-1-78308-328-2 . 102 . en.
  6. Keshmirshekan . Hamid . 2005 . Neo-Traditionalism and Modern Iranian Painting: The "Saqqa-khaneh" School in the 1960s . Iranian Studies . 38 . 4 . 607–630 . 10.1080/00210860500338408 . 4311766 . 162877296 . 0021-0862.
  7. Web site: Massoud Arabshahi . The British Museum.
  8. Web site: Saghafi . Morad . Autumn 1996 . The city and the social presentation of art: A glance at Ghandriz Gallery experience . 2022-12-16 . Pages Magazine, No. 13 . en.
  9. Web site: 2015-12-07 . Simurg, c. 1961-1964 . 2022-12-16 . Grey Art Gallery . en-US.
  10. Book: Milani, Abbas . Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979, Volumes One and Two . Syracuse University Press . 2008 . 9780815609070 . 1000–10001.
  11. Web site: Iranian Painters, Marcos Grigorian . 2022-12-16 . Toos Foundation.

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