Lectures

Outcast Artists
- Lectures
- 11 January 2009
Text of a speech by Master Jalil Ziapour, published in Kavir Magazine, 14 February 1950 In life, human desire, according to the laws of nature, is based on need. If, in the face of this law, there are...
Painting, Kavir Magazine (Issue 1)
- Lectures
- 9 January 2009
Text of the lecture by Master Jalil Ziapour at the Fighting Cock (Khoroos Jangi) Art Association, published under the title “Painting” in “Kavir” magazine, Issue 1, pp. 8 to 18, year 1949–50. (To turn the simple and single...
Developments in Painting in Our World
- Lectures
- 7 January 2009
Text of a lecture by Master Jalil Ziapour at the Fighting Cock (Khoroos Jangi) Art Association; Khordad 1328 (May–June 1949) The pupils of Kamal-ol-Molk, who, at the vanguard of naturalistic painting in Tehran, had acquired fame among both the elite...
O… People! Save the College of Fine Arts
- Lectures
- 4 January 2009
Text of the speech by Master Jalil Ziapour; published in the magazine “The Cock’s Claw,” 22 April 1953 For several years, I have kept silent and observed the state of the College of Fine Arts. In this wretched place, there...
Gholamhossein Gharib and the Method of Writing in Iran
- Lectures
- 4 January 2009
Text of Master Jalil Ziapour’s lecture at the Fighting Cock (Khoroos Jangi) Art Association; published in the newspaper “Iran” (issues 8772, 8773, and 8774), dated 17, 18, and 19 April 1949 The day of the annual celebration of...
Cubist Painting and Our Clowns!
- Lectures
- 4 January 2009
The text of the lecture by Master Jalil Ziapour at the Fighting Cock (Khoroos Jangi) Art Association; published in the weekly magazine “Azarpad” (No. 8), 13 May 1949 I have always said that to recognize modern art and...
The Cubists
- Lectures
- 4 January 2009
The text of the lecture by Master Jalil Ziapour at the Fighting Cock (Khoroos Jangi) Art Association (1949); published in the weekly magazine “Shahsavar” (No. 3), 9 October 1950 According to the view of Surrealism, Cubism not only...
Surrealism
- Lectures
- 2 January 2009
The text of the lecture by Master Jalil Ziapour at the Fighting Cock (Khoroos Jangi) Art Association; the year 1949 The roots of all kinds of thoughts and ideas exist in a latent and weak manner in the...
What Were the Old Painters of Iran Doing Among Books, and What Are Their Successors Doing?
- Lectures
- 2 January 2009
Text of a lecture by Master Jalil Ziapour at the Fighting Cock (Khoroos Jangi) Art Association, 1949 I have repeatedly been asked to write about the characteristics of the miniature (this Iranian painting of the Islamic period) and to...
The Position of the Art of Painting in the Current Society of Iran
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- 1 January 2009
Text of the lecture by Master Jalil Ziapour at the Fighting Cock (Khoroos Jangi) Art Association, published in the Azarpad weekly, issues 5 and 6, 22 and 29 April 1950 This artistic stir which is currently seen in...
Cubism in Iran; Painting Is Highly Present, Yet Foreign
- Lectures
- 1 January 2009
Text of a lecture by Master Jalil Ziapour at the Anatole France Cultural Association (Tehran), published in the weekly “Azarpad,” No. 9, 20 May 1950 Geometric painting, or Cubism, had taken root, and its opponents, experts, and critics...
A New Era, a New Mold
- Lectures
- 28 December 2008
Text of Master Jalil Ziapour’s speech at the Bahman Mohassess exhibition, published in the weekly publication “Niruy-e Sevom,” No. 15, 28 November 1952 For some time, Bahman Mohassess had practiced Cubism under me to familiarize himself with new...