Outcast Artists
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 also cases...
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The Solicitude of the Likes of Messrs. Engineer Taherzadeh
Jalil Ziapour’s article, titled “The Solicitude of the Likes of Messrs. Engineer Taherzadeh”, published in the newspaper Mehr-e Iran, No. 2179, Monday, 28 November 1949 The newspaper Mehr-e Iran wrote: In response to the article “A Critique of a Critique,”...
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Attack on the Article “Surrealism” and the Slogans “Art for Art’s Sake” and “Art for the People”
Text of the lecture by Master Jalil Ziapour at the Fighting Cock (Khorus Jangi) Art Association; November 1949 Our people-loving opponents, in order to win the favor of their tightly pressed-together populace in Iran, had set the slogan of popular...
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Fighting Cock Magazine, the Means of Interpellation of Dr. Eqbal (Minister of the Interior)
An article by Master Jalil Ziapour, titled “Fighting Cock Magazine, the Means of Interpellation of Dr. Eqbal”, published in Ettela’at Newspaper, Issue 9615, 24 April 1949. One of the very interesting events in the year 1949 for the...
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Developments in Painting in Our World
Text of a lecture by Master Jalil Ziapour at the Fighting Cock (Khorus Jangi) Art Association; June 1949 The pupils of Kamal-ol-Molk, who, at the vanguard of naturalistic painting in Tehran, had acquired fame among both the elite and the...
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O… People! Save the College of Fine Arts
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 ruined place, there...
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Gholamhossein Gharib and the Method of Writing in Iran
Text of Master Jalil Ziapour’s lecture at the Fighting Cock (Khorus 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 the Fighting...
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Cubist Painting and Our Clowns!
The text of the lecture by Master Jalil Ziapour at the Fighting Cock (Khorus Jangi) Art Association; published in the weekly magazine “Azarpad” (No. 8), 13 May 1949 I have always said that to recognize modern art and distinguish its...
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The Cubists
The text of the lecture by Master Jalil Ziapour at the Fighting Cock (Khorus Jangi) Art Association (1949); published in the weekly magazine “Shahsavar” (No. 3), 9 October 1950 According to the view of Surrealism, Cubism not only technically (except...
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Painting, Fighting Cock Magazine (Issue 1)
Article by Master Jalil Ziapour, titled “Painting,” published in Fighting Cock (Khorus Jangi) Magazine, Issue 1, pp. 12 to 15, the year 1948 Painting From those early days I felt that the painter’s aim and method must be...
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Surrealism
The text of the lecture by Master Jalil Ziapour at the Fighting Cock (Khorus Jangi) Art Association; the year 1949 The roots of all kinds of thoughts and ideas exist in a latent and weak manner in the depths of...
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What Were the Old Painters of Iran Doing Among Books, and What Are Their Successors Doing?
Text of a lecture by Master Jalil Ziapour at the Fighting Cock (Khorus 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 draw...