Journal of Fine Arts Visual Arts

• University of Tehran

Delvoye, a Belgian artist, exhibits his varied works all over the world. Delvoye sometimes combines the elegance of decoration with smooth and polished surfaces resulting from industrial beauty and makes a magnificent set. The examples can be seen in loaders and heavy machines, which are decorated with the elaborated motifs of Gothic churches. He c...

The studies on Persian miniature have been mostly on old and traditional paintings and there has been less attention to the contemporary miniature. The study of paintings based on new theories is very novel and there is still much work to be done. Gerard Genette's theory of transtextuality, although not primarily related to the field of art and onl...

In the pre-Islamic era, the Arabian Peninsula was a highway between Europe, Syria, Africa, Egypt, Asia, Mesopotamia and India, and in this sense, it was able to create a significant commercial position. This paper intends to examine the social history of Saudi Arabia in three economic, political and religious levels and explain the dominant discour...

in different directions depending on the position. Even the use of this category in drawing insects and other painting decorations is also considered. There is a formal connection between the curved lines of the painting and the calligraphy form in the artist's signature. In terms of quality, the line has variable thicknesses and does not move unif...

has been done on this book based on narratology. Its painting is based on a historical text and is far from fantasy. In this research, the main design in the structure of the narrative has been investigated by using double contrasts, narrative chains and Greimas action pattern which structurally belongs to a single text and the image and narration...

The majority of research on Qajar clothing is centered on the garments common among people from all walks of life, neglecting those specific to particular trades or social classes. This study focuses on the type of fabric used for the waist aprons worn by Qajar-era peddlers, as depicted in two Scrapbook of Professions manuscripts from the reign of...

Today, one of the main goals of contemporary education systems is to provide and prepare efficient educational spaces and equipment, in order to improve the educational status of students. One of the most important ways to gain this goal is by providing appropriate and efficient educational spaces and equipment in harmony with the educational syste...

After rising to power, Ardašir I made a coherent plan to legitimize his kingdom. Similar to kings of ancient times who created a new dynasty, Ardašir I faced a critical problem, which was how to legitimize his exclusive power as the newly established king. Creating various rock reliefs in different regions was one of the most significant things Ard...

Despite the expansion of video media and virtual networks with the ability to share video, the poster is still one of the first and most important elements of a film that provides information about it to the audience. It is a poster that depicts the message and atmosphere of the movie in a fixed frame to attract the attention of the audience and in...

Design thinking as a way of guiding innovation has attracted the attention of innovative companies in recent years. By studying the practice and thinking of designers, this method tries to identify their work method in problem solving and develop it for use by nondesigners. However, this approach has always faced criticisms in its implementation. T...

The politics of exploiting the environment and environmental commitment represents a global concern about the categories of social philosophy which has recently turned into a critical theme in artistic activism within the sociopolitical art approach. In social sciences, the idea of the third generation of critical theory concerning normative princi...

Dominic Lopes is a leading figure in art theorizing, especially as to pictorial arts, as well as nonart pictures, who sometimes directly theorizes about pictures, other times structuring theoretical frameworks applicable to pictures as well as other items. One can think that he's fond of the audience rather than the creator of a picture, and as to...

Arabesque, Khatai, Rose-and-Nightingale, animal motifs, sometimes in the form of Vaq motifs in the central frame, are reminiscent of elements originating from the concept of paradise in iranian thought. It is close to the concepts hidden in iranian carpet and architecture. The presence of historical concepts such as mashya and mashyana and the tree...

Nowadays, use of new technologies in creating artworks lead to the expansion of interactive approaches in art. Interactive art as a new art that influenced by technology is a suitable platform to be able to study it based on the thoughts of contemporary philosopher Jean Baudrillard. In interactive art, the presence and role of the audience in the c...

the painting and are very useful in creating concepts such as polyphony, equality, freedom and dealing with the other. In the above-mentoned work, usually using all or part of the techniques can convey these concepts clearly to the viewer. In the present study, after dividing the panel into different spaces, the application of dialogical techniques...

The mutual relation of different branches of arts is always seen in different historical eras. The Timurid period, like other historical periods, is not an exception to this rule, and there are many common points between the tiling decorations of this period with illustrated manuscripts. By reviewing the paintings of the mentioned period, it is pos...

The horizon line is the most important element in landscape paintings and demarcates the sky and the ground. The horizon line organizes all the visual items in, both the sky and the ground sections in the picture, logically. Although drawing the horizon line is a common method in painting nowadays, analyzing pre-Timurid illustrated Persian or Arabi...

Abnormality as one of the expressive tricks and methods of highlighting in the world of literature and art means going beyond the normal and familiar standard, after which the audience is delayed in the face of the work and the meaning is delayed. The place, role and importance of aberration in literary and artistic texts is such that critics have...

Single Iris bushes can be seen in many flower and bird miniature of Shiraz painters. This flower grows in the region of Susa. The region of Susa or Suzian has been so named because of the growth of Iris - in the west and southwest of present in the Elamite period, and has a religious connection with the Elamite goddess and has a symbolic aspect in...

This study is concern with the culture of conserving and sustainability. Many of the issues such as air pollution, water scarcity, and epidemic diseases that threaten human's life today have root in the environmental damage. Therefore, paying attention to the environment and its related problems are very important. Not only preventing the waste of...

Participatory design is one of the practical approaches in many fields of design, including industrial design. This approach generally refers to activities in which all stakeholders find the authority and power to use their ideas to design new solutions simultaneously. But participation and cooperation with users have always been involved with many...

Throughout history, the throne has always been a symbol of power and a sign of the legitimacy of the ruler of the time, which is clearly reflected in illustrated manuscripts, including Shahnameh of Tahmasabi. The throne and the sitting position in Tahmasbi's Shahnameh include different and distinguishable types from the perspective of composition a...

In the past centuries, when Westerners became more familiar with Iranian-Islamic art, they attempted to understand its essence based on the principles and foundations of their own art which is based on formalism, and thus called it decorative art. This means Iranian-Islamic art has additional elements that is separated from the original work. But i...

Instead of simply reiterating previously established ideas and solutions, this article claims that design is a process for creating new concepts and approaches that can transform the world. To put it another way, design can be thought of as a goal-oriented function that aims to change the current circumstances into more desirable and anticipated ev...

Paradigmatic perception in research method, especially in the field of art, might have no practical relevance. The art researcher mainly starts her work by describing and at the end, she records and publishes her analysis and understanding of the "relationships" in the variables. In the meantime, various methods are adopted, which may not necessari...

Jenny Saville, the Scottish contemporary artist found immediate success in the 1990s due to the depiction of corpulent women on a large scale; depictions that were considered to be a rebellion against the long-lasting historical practice of drawing women according to the ideal constructs of beauty and slim female body. Saville’s works were consider...

This study aims to address the works of the contemporary art which has allusions to the motifs of Qajar court painting and its adaptation to the effect of artistic discourses related to legitimizing the Qajar dynasty, to reveal the extension or rupture of dominant discourses in it. The method used in the research is analytic-comparative. Also, acco...

Duplication in the tradition of Persian painting, which was mostly created for educational and skill-learning purposes, could be one of the best examples of Genette's hypertextual relationship. Also, one of the most significant examples in this field was the painting "Seated Painter" in 892 AH /1487 AD. (Freer Gallery of Art 32.28) by Kamal al-din...

Pottery in the Samanid period (3rd and 4th centuries AD) was one of the most important artistic periods, and the importance of these pottery is due to the presence of various inscriptions in Kufic script and the use of birds in calligraphy. The open-mindedness of the Samanids, along with the promotion of Islam and the extensive connections of the S...

Texts have always been influenced by preceding works. Sometimes this influence is investigated in the form of adaptation. When a text obviously refers to another text, if the relationship between them is beyond a mere copying, it can be said that the second work has been adapted from the first one. One can observe variuos forms of adaptation in the...

In the last few years, the importance of emotional effects in the user experience has stirred some controversy about how to create a multi-sensory experience in products. Surrounding a wide range of products necessitates the creation of a pleasurable experience because interaction with each product creates a unique experience for all users. It can...

Dot is the first and the most important element in Islamic calligraphy. The most important function of the dot in Nasta’liq script is to determine scales, calligrapher’s pen’s angle, and also line and specimen compositions. This fact can differ in each individulal calligrapher. So, the main goal of this research is to study the pen’s angle, baselin...

The Middle East has been the place of various cultural ties. One of the most brilliant of these ages is the era of Al-Buyid. The Buyids was a tribe of Daylaman of Zaidi Shiites who claimed to be descendants of the Sassanids. This period, due to its Shiite-Iranian culture, is one of the most important eras of Islamic civilization. During this period...