JOURNAL OF VISUAL AND APPLIED ARTS
Year:2018 | Volume:11 | Issue:21 |Papers Count:7

Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (1341 AD. ) is an anthology of Persian poetry which is also famous for its illustrated double frontispiece which contains an unusual scene. A royal enthroned couple with their attendants is depicted on the left side of this frontispiece. The scene, at first glance, may not be seemed too unusual as the representations of Mongol rulers and their consorts were prevalent in the Ilkhanid book of official history; the Compendium of Chronicles (Jā mi’ al-tawā rī kh) in 14thcentury AD. Nevertheless, the fact that the royal couple were depicted as a scene on a manuscript frontispiece which is accompanied by with an impertinent hunt scene on the opposite page reveals the key differentiation between the royal scene in the frontispiece and the Ilkhanid official Iconography. The Iconographic method was used in this research to explore the content of the above-mentioned frontispiece in its historical context. This context consists of literary and historical texts with various implication to court culture in 14th century. Moreover, visual materials gathered from illustrated manuscripts, metalwork and glazed pottery under the subject matter of court life were used to investigate the content of Mu'nis al-ahrarfrontispieces in relation to the contemporary frontispieces which were produced in Tabriz and Shiraz. This results in the fact that the themes represented as the double scene in frontispiece of Mu'nis al-ahrar, should be categorized under the so called “ princely cycle” . The princely cycle is a series of themes and subjects assigned to representing court life and princely activities which were supposed as the ideal king characteristic according to Persian historical text and literature. Princely activities such as feast, hunt and fight were repeatedly depicted in the Persian panegyric poetry. The same happened in medieval Islamic metalwork the form of repetition of visual motifs of a feasting royal figure, hunters and animals and musicians. Consequently the feast and hunt scenes in the 14th century frontispieces whether representing a real king or nobleman are visual praise of ideal king and his ideal characteristics and activities in the same way as they appear in the panegyric poems which appear in the books’ front matters. In the double frontispiece of Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar the hunt scene is accompanied by a variation of feast scene, a private moment of courtly life. In addition to the Ilkhanid official Iconography this private scene could also be traced in the Seljuk minaie pottery in late 12th century. The private scene of Mu'nis al-ahrar frontispiece shows a hybridity in content and composition. In this frontispiece a royal hunt scene traced back to Sasanian royal Art on the right and a Persian private scene with a royal couple on the left, which is partly depicted in iconographic details of Ilkhanid Tabriz form a panegyric image.

Understanding how art markets emerge remains a major challenge, for marketing researchers. Art market plays a dual role; on the one hand leads to promote further understanding of artworks by young artists and on the other hand, encourages trade in art and culture. States take into account various dimensions of art and culture in developing their cultural development prospects since they are in nature constitute part of the development of the country. Therefore, the current paper aims to answer the question: “ Who and which process conduct visual arts market and business and with what roles? ” The current paper describes the mechanism of entry into the artistic community and being recognized as artists during the approval process, by which the artist finds legitimacy. Thus, we have qualitatively investigated literature on art market and marketing since 1970-2016 using Meta-Synthesis Research method. Having completed two screening stages, 17 papers and a thesis were selected as the main sources for detailed studies to response the posed question. The results show that the art market composed of members of the business entity, including fourteen member or institution define art based on the institutional framework of art world and conduct artistic life of an artist until they established in the art market taking on different roles in both primary and secondary market in four stages of creation, introduction, growth, and maturity. Finally, a framework was presented as art world interactions network explaining in detail the three aspects and accordingly, the presence of a network of specialists who can determine who in the world of art is timeless artist, and relying on an institutional definition of art as the art world inspired it and taking advantage of the power derived from the nature of institutions and their role in the approval process as the art market players to determine the structure of the market. It was named Visual Arts Institutional Business Network. The results are based on researches have been done out of Iran. So, it explains what is happening in countries which are majors in this business. There is not any exact information if Iran is pacing the same way. Therefore, another research should be done for such a conclusion about Iran. Optimistically, the events of the last decade like Visual Arts Auction of Tehran and the achievements of Iranian artists in International auctions promises that the art society of Iran is joining the art world movements. The audience of the research are students of Arts disciplines and artists who aspire to be an international branded artist. Reading the paper, they comprehend what steps they may take in the art world, what to expect from the members of the art network and what duties to accept mutually. The other audiences are the experts and students of Marketing discipline who learn about art market especially, the distribution system of artworks, the process in which an artist becomes branded and also the activities and events which are used in promoting both of them.

The discussion of architectural beauty has always been a concern of artists, architects and even philosophers, so there are different views on this subject, which sometimes do not have much in common with each other. In the early 20th century, in order to overcome these disputes, many artists tried to find principles for beauty in the visual arts such as painting, sculpture, architecture and other visual arts that were sometimes newly created. The culmination of the study of professional visual communication in the first half of 20th century was by artists such as Vasili Kandinsky, Paul Kelly, Mowholney, George Caps, Joseph Albers and their followers. Some of them were Bauhaus artists and theorists. By studying the characteristics of the visual elements, these people categorized and analyzed this aspect of visual arts. Almost simultaneously with the studies on the basics of visual art, some European psychologists found a way to discover the visual perceptions of mankind called Gestalt. The goal of all these efforts was to define a benchmark for recognizing the beauty that was needed due to the creation of new artistic disciplines, some of which were baseless and absent from beauty. Today we know result of these efforts, as the basics of visual arts. In this article we have considered Charles Johnson's nine principles for visual beauty, which include: 1-the fit, 2-the contrast, 3-the balance, 4-the harmony (composition), 5-the variety, 6-the rhythm, 7-the variation in rhythm, 8-the movement and 9-the dominance of the focus point. From the view point of aesthetically, for the vast majority of people, the traditional architecture is in a position of superiority to the modern examples. This research by analysing the Boroujerdi house (which presented by UNESCO as a superior example) based on principles of knowledge of the basics of visual arts, tries to address the reasons for the visual superiority of traditional Iranian architecture. We work in descriptive-analytic method and used mathematical software PhiMatrix, for detect golden ratio in facades. The general process of work is that after proving the possibility of analyzing two dimensional images instead of three dimensional spaces and presenting the principles of visual enhancement. A number of images related to the main views have been analyzed to prove these principles. Based on analyzes obtained from the case study, these nine principles are extremely well observed in this house. It seems that the full observance of these visual rules, which all human beings unconsciously recognize, are the criterion of aesthetic perception; is the reason for choosing this home by tourists as a superior example. We see that such interdisciplinary research in the future could lead to a proper definition of beauty in architecture.

Abstract: This paper examines the formation of Lorestan bronzes and the effect of Gilgamesh the Mesopotamian myth on the Lorestan art. Surveying of the outstanding examples of many bronzes from the BC centuries in Lorestan shows that these people have been highly skilled in this profession and have been able to present their neighbors' culture with a particular artistic and elegant work. This research uses a descriptive-analytical method with an art history approach to link the Lorestan bronzes with Mesopotamian culture and myths and examines the flourishing period of Lorestan art. The purpose of this research is to investigate the role of Gilgamesh and its impact on Lorestan bronzes. The findings indicate that the ancestors of the Lor people, namely, the Caicos, have brought this art to their peak, given their racial characteristics and the time they ruled parts of the Mesopotamian lands. The results of this research show the long-standing relationship between the Caice and the Babylonians, the Sumerians, and the Assyrians. Gilgamesh, who is no longer an alien myth, but is associated with this people and plays an important role in the household instruments and instruments of donation and is considered as the main pillar of the art of Lorestan's bronze work. The work of Lorestan is the result of simple works that represent several centuries of the material revolution of the farmer and warrior. This art peaked in the fourth millennium BC. The significance of Lorestan's bronze work of art, the transfer of arts and ancestral traditions, the transfer of concepts and common religious issues, and the expression of the laws that have been admirable, heartbroken, admirable and admirable for all the tribes of the horseback rider, warrior and farmer of the old world. The Casits, creaters of these bronze works, in many of their beliefs, were influenced by the Mesopotamian culture and imitated them. And since most of these works have been obtained from cemeteries, it has been argued that Lorestan's bronzes has religious and mythic aspects. For this reason, Gilgamesh has embraced the Mesopotamian hero as a worshiping element. Gilgamesh, who is is a conqueror of giants and supporter of humans and animals, is the symbol of Mesopotamian epic and Mesopotamian hero, they considered him as a semi God in Sumer, Babylonia and Assyria, and is considered to be one of the gods in Lorestan, and most of all worshiped. With regard to historical, artistic and archaeological evidence, it can be concluded that the prevalence of Gilgamesh's role on the Lorestan bronze objects shows the influence of Mesopotamian civilization. And the role of the Gilgamesh in Lorestan has been a symbol of power, courage and humanity and a symbol of respect for animals and salvation of the earthly and the heavenly times.

Iran and Turkey involved in profound transformations in every aspect of social life according to the modernization and westernization programs enforced by Reza Shah and Ataturk in the 1920s and 1930s. The modern states superseded former Ottoman and Qajar reigns which previously had influenced by the wave of modernization and thus the condition of development of modernization which disposed in the 19th century, heightened in the 20th. The Study of artistic changes under the influence of modernization seems to be necessary, as the impact of the process analyzed in various social and political aspects. The establishment of new western-style cultural institutions such as academies and museums profoundly affected the artistic transformation in these countries. In 1882 Osman Hamdi founded the Academy of Fine Arts and in 1911 Kamal al-Mulk relatively established early western-style art school in Iran. These changes had brought massive transformations in art of Iran and Turkey and then artists become enthusiast of western-style of arts and tried to imitate the modern art. This paper focused primarily on the art of painting in these countries between the beginnings of 20th century to 1960s. The objective of the research is to compare transformation of painting in the mentioned cutting edge in Iran and Turkey. So, for the sake of outlining the common tendencies in the modern painting, the comparative form was applied to study the changes in the art of painting in the context of modernization process of the countries. The approach relies on the modernization as mainstream which could have been lead in common experience in other fields like art of painting. The Peripheral-central situation is one of the key concepts in this theoretical approach. According to the concept, European developed countries have regarded as the central countries and the others, such as colonized and third world countries have regarded as the peripheral. The only way to development for peripheral countries, in this ideology, was becoming westernized. This peripheral situation specifies common condition of the countries in the beginning decades of the twentieth century, and formation of modern states of Ataturk and Reza Shah is outcome of this process. Is, According to the main question of the research, there any common process in the painting of Iran and Turkey at the mentioned period? If so, why the artists of the two countries experienced similar tendencies in their painting artworks? The method which used for this article is descriptive-analytic and its data collection have been done by library researches and processed by qualitative method. The analysis of research data reveals three major tendencies in Iranian and Turkish modern painting. The first, naturalism in academic style, on the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life; the second, modern painting under the influence of the European modern art's circles and the movements such as expressionism and cubism with the folklore accent; and the third, return to historical identity by restoration of formal elements of traditional arts in abstract forms and in modern expression. Accordingly, the modernization brought a common artistic process in the painting of Iran and Turkey, as like as the common structure in the politics.

Nowadays, it is possible to assist designer and manufacturer in achieving success and ultimately their superiority compared to their competitors during design process and sales activities subject to the acquisition of required awareness and information on the degree of emotional influence of the products to be made. In shoe industry and in design and producing the high-heeled shoes, paying attention to creating desired emotion and customer’ s attention in buying this type of shoes and the success in conveying this to customers, compared to its performance, has significant importance. This article attempts to have a broader understanding in shoe design from the perspective of emotion by providing aesthetic concepts in the structure of high-heeled shoes and to study the position of each of the elements of form, color and materials in creating and conveying emotion, which is the goal of a designer in design. After thorough literature review and pilot studies, two groups were selected each containing 30 samples from the store customers, female students and female professors of industrial design to be surveyed with regards to five products of “ Charles and Keith” brand. This decision was based on collection and thorough assessment on 400 high-heeled shoes of the company and the given attention on design styles of shoes and their aesthetic factors using the method of Kansei engineering semantic differential as well as written and internet-based questionnaires containing seven-degree structure for 22 pairs of Kansei words. It is noteworthy to mention that the design style of top covering surface of shoe in selected products is based on internationally introduced styles for this type of shoes including Peep Toe, Plat Form, Pump, Sling Back, and Sandal. The reason for selecting questionnaire’ s sampled respondents was the authors’ belief of the respondents’ interest, care and sensitivity to these products. According to the results of analysis on completed questionnaires using SPSS and the illustrated tables and diagrams, common or shared emotion from viewpoint of both groups of respondents were identified and the highest value in the rank was illustrated in the in event tree analysis (ETA) and the effects of form, color and materials were examined separately. Thereafter, using this methodology (i. e., ETA) by allocating scores to these factors, the contributing effects of each one of the factors in creating and conveying emotions, in the design process of a product were obtained. In this group of products, the results of research stressed on the significant impact of the form compared to the other factors of color and materials in creating an emotion received by the user at her first sight. It is expected that with utilization of findings of this research, the experts in this domain can have a novel approach and thinking in design process of shoes and to better solve such problems as lack of interest in buying the existing shoe products and consequently the reduction in sales volume in order to assist producers in protecting their capital as well as advancement in process of design and making the successful shoe products.