Naghsh Mayeh
Year:2013 | Volume:5 | Issue:14|Papers Count:11

Dome house of Tajolmolk is one of the prettiest and most unique brick dome houses of the world which is located in the northern side of Isfahan’s Great Mosque. The space inside of this dome house is rich in pretty brick and gypsum ornaments which have turned it into a unique treasure in the art of ornaments of mosques and due to these ornamentations it has a rare prettiness. Diversity and multiplicity of ornaments are indicative of intelligence and creativity of the artist architect who has applied all his efforts to make such a spiritual place. Besides creating prettiness and giving religious aspect; friezes cause blessing of the space and expand the moral and spiritual sensation to the place too. They also indicate historical and social condition of that era. The current research turns to introduce ornaments of this valuable treasure, application of these ornaments and an aesthetical perception of them by reliance on existing resources and observance of the dome house space. The methodology of this research is by descriptive analytical method and the data were gathered by library and field study.

Dance is kind of showing moods with moving body rhythmically and orderly with music. Dance is one of the oldest fields of art that was associated with each civilization since beginning; mostly has been performed for ritual, prayer, magic, drama, entertainment or purely aesthetic purposes.India is a vast country that remains highly popular because its rich culture, religious beliefs and philosophical ideas. In Pre-Aryan, Aryan and other historic times in India rise dance culture in this country. This culture rooted in Hindu faith and praise to divine power has led to emergence of dance to praise the gods. Indian knew dance as a gift of god to worship the gods and promote this art in their own temples. In India more than any other civilizations, dance and music consider as a divine gift. Since dance is an ancient Indian art, researchers in this paper have attempted to prove existence of dance in pre-history and history of this country, with studying on the archaeological evidence, reliefs and dance- related religious statues in the temples. Since the complexion of myth and history in Indian mythology; the study on history regardless mythology is impossible, the links between dances with mythology has also been studied. Historical description method used in this study.

In the illustration to achieve pure ideas must always use innovative skills till create lasting works. Training mind and imagination of the artists in this field helps to objectify their subjective impressions and ideas and bringing and experience new visual exploration. To achieve this, knowing famous artists and learning necessary skills would be useful. Enhanced images of illustrators help them to achieve create and innovative ideas. As much as artist knowledge is richer his visual output would be more organized and fits with context. Ideas that are rich will be remain forever in the history of illustration. The method in this paper is field research and library.

This paper attempts to study on the Sassanid ruler shroud and clothes with discursive semiotic approach. This approach, for Review and explanation of the samples entered into social, political, and ideological context with focuses on semiotic elements. In the present paper, the visual text is the motifs on the clothes of ruler who is the first position of power hence, inevitably, the semiotic approach interacts with elements and relationships of power discourse, and the article enters the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as such, considers the social, political, and ideological codes. In this analysis, implicit statements, which have been pretend ordinary with ideological nature, are decoded by connotations. Indeed the main questions of the paper are: Do the motifs on the clothes of ruler have a concept beyond the primary meaning? In addition, what are the most discourses of motifs according to their function? The paper tries to achieve discourse that had been probably the intent of ruler probably and eventually is believed that the motifs on clothes for ruler in Sassanid dynasty are a matter to legitimize his position of power.

The following research tries to study on the oldest images of winged bulls of Gate of all Nations in Europeans’ itineraries who have travelled to Iran for different reasons during Safavid and Zand era. Available records show that these tourists had reports and images with themselves which includes some wrong and imaginary information. This research is descriptive analytic type which is based on library sources and data analysis that tries to study on the reasons which led to drawing these images incorrectly.Findings indicate different and unusual images of winged bulls of Gate of all Nations in their reports were not real and affected by western culture and many other factors. The variety of images during Safavid and Zand era represents the visitors’ attitudes and the growing trend of archaeological illustrations which have of a great value by themselves due to their age.Winged bull or Lamassu in Near East mythology had a symbolic meaning which installed on sides of palaces’ gates and temples. These statues are a combination of human head, body of bull, wings of eagle and sometimes lion feet which embody four elements and combination of physical, intellectual, natural and supernatural powers. The interpretation of these mythical entities combination is the accumulation of human thoughts and spirit that controls its animal instincts, ambition of eagle or falcon, blessing and strength of bull and power and justice of lion.One of the most significant signs of these mythical entities in Persepolis Gate are observed in sculpture architecture which includes a pair of huge bulls on western doorway and a pair of huge winged human-headed bulls (Lamassus) on the Eastern entry.

This research is aimed at studying features and visual qualities of illustration in children toys packaging. This research is trying to find answers for toy packaging processes from design to production, what should be considered by an illustrator and also collecting information for interested people and students in arrival to the labor market and recognizing the existing challenges. This research method was fundamental and theoretical and the most important research question was that, what is the first impression of illustration on the packaging surfaces containing children toys? And what is the most important features of illustration on the children toys packaging surfaces? The most important obtained results were that although the quick attraction of the children is the most effective factor in illustration, it cannot be the first effect on children toys packaging surfaces. Features such as color, attractive design and revealing the inside containing of the packaging are the most important features of illustration in this packaging. Now we can say that illustration as visual part of the toy packaging has the most important role in introducing the capabilities, function and the attractively of a production. Illustration especially for children who have a closer relationship with fiction world is more attractive than other visual elements and also despite of the visual attraction such as color coordination, adaptation of plan with packaging and etc, photography is an art that sometimes used as complementary in illustration of this kind of production.

Angels as holy and heavenly creatures, from the old time, make human mind thoughtful about themselves. Before advent of Islam, these holy creatures was carved on rock in the mountain and potteries, but after emergence of Islam, in particular after Illkhanid till now these creatures appeared as they appear today, based on Holy Quran verses and Islamic narratives in paintings. Before contemporary painting, Angelology receive little attention as a major subject fot painting and they just deprived because of their functionparticularly Gabriel that appeared more and more because of his major role for inspirationfor inspiring holy person such as holy prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and…. So the aim of this essay is to study Gabriel - cause of his major role that lead painters depicted him a lotin Suhrawardu Illuminism and Painting Art. Therefore, the body of this essay is as follow: At first, studying Gabreil -noor e aghrab- in Suhrawadri Illuminism. Then, studying him in painting art based on Holy Quran verses and islamic narratives. Finally, we aim to mention their similarities and differences if possilble.

This article contains the period between 224-628 AD with the attitude towards metal works, and the importance of the role of women in metal works of Sassanian. Taking the Sassanid metal works into consideration lead us to understand the root of ethical, social, cultural and religious role of women exposed during the Sassanid era. This influence on metal works of the Sassanid era emerges in the designs of coins, ewers, the bowls, plates, pots, shields and domes, and is investigated in this study. After defining women’s role, details of clothing, make-ups and symbolic motifs are also taken into consideration. The method applied to this study is documentary and obtained results manifest that despite the geographical extent of Iran during the Sassanid era, the dominant motifs of this period had the same style. In those artworks women are presented as queens, dancers, musicians, Lady Sovereign and the goddess Anahita. The majority of the metal work motifs of women are related to religious motifs and Sassanian nobles, which sassanid metalworkers implemented all their talent and artistry in creating those exquisite works.

Felt is a kind of carpet that made from rubbed wool. Felt has an important role in Kermanshah and used by people from old ages. The weather of this area is a witness by itself. Felt maybe make without any design in some parts of Iran but not in Kermanshah the motifs are important for felt makers and all the products from mat to clothes and even saddle horses have some motifs. These motifs usually have seen on the sidelines or as a plant or animal motif in the center. The felt motif is not pre-determined as a carpet but it is created during the work by felt makers based on buyer’s willing or felt maker’s mind. This is one of the unique and artistic characteristics of felt making that far from traditional and thousand year’s designs sometimes create simple and innovative motif in the moment. These motifs are sometimes plants, objects or even animals that have rooted in people’s beliefs. Kermanshahan is known as one of the most important centers of felt products due to its climate and extensive livestock for a long time. In this research try to record and present the felt motifs of this province which seems necessary.

Creating a product requires lots of factors. How to deal with these factors is very effective in advancing the design process. Theories and attitudes before the designer make his mind up, then create a plan and finally the success of the project will be determined by the audience. Discover a new way and new approaches to create different and positive mental effects on user by seeing and using of a product could be a good experience. This research introduces "folding theory". This philosophy has been based on multi-valued and fuzzy logic which tries to omit binaries. Folding theory presented by Eisenman in architecture and Frank O.Gehry in industrial design. Folding attempts to make folded structure forms and curved and twisted shapes, according to fractal geometry in industrial design and architecture... in this paper we look at the history of folding, then introduce the basic and effective principles of this approach and finally its application in product design. This article is based on paper descriptive case study with the aim of introducing and defining parameters in the design of products under folding attitude. The key question in this study is that how does the governing rules of this philosophy influence on product design and how to apply this theory in the aesthetic matters? Or in the other words describe, what is the relationship between the measures of this idea and old strategies in product design? Finally with interpretation and presenting examples of famous designers show the leading rule of folding theory in creating innovative works which have pleasant appearance and their application is consistent with the terms of their structure.

The reason behind the creation of a painting and the method applied, hold many hidden secrets within it and can be influenced by ever-changing internal and external conditions. One of the most important of these factors is an inner existing aspect called the evil force which with the help of the artist’s creative mind and his ideology and beliefs, and in accordance to the prevalent social, cultural and religious condition, not only creates works of art with similar content and different appearances, but also displays them through different styles such as abstract, figurative, expressive and etc; although these figurative works of art could exhibit the concept of evil and even multiply its existence to the observer. Therefore the evil force can be considered as one of the many forces that have been placed within human beings and while it is considered as a destructive nature, humans are able to employ its infinite energy as a stimulant towards artistic creation and show their beliefs and inner beings in the form of displaying the evil force (as Satan), or through passing this corporeality.