Mansoor Ghandriz ( fa, منصور قندریز; 2 March 1936 – 26 February 1966)
was an Iranian painter and printmaker. He used Iranian forms in modern art and was one of the pioneers of the
Saqqakhaneh movement. Ghandriz is best known for his abstract paintings of mythical creatures.
Biography
Mansoor Ghandriz was born on 2 March 1936 in Tabriz, Pahlavi Iran.
While still in high school, Ghandriz was drawn to the progressive realist paintings of
Ilya Repin (1844–1930) and Russian-Armenian seascape artist
Ivan Aivazovsky
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (russian: link=no, Иван Константинович Айвазовский; 29 July 18172 May 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized ...
(1817–1900).
Starting in 1954 he attended
Jalil Ziapour's Tehran School of Decorative Arts ();
followed by study at the College of Decorative Arts at Tehran University (now
University of Tehran
The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching pro ...
).
He had studied painting under
Shokouh Riazi at the College of Decorative Arts. While in college, he was introduced to European modernism, and he delved into the tradition of Russian realists and European classical and figurative art.
After college he turned to a paradigmatic exhortation of modernist language within local Iranian narrative, and developing his own semi-abstract style. Incorporating the figurative techniques of old masters, he created his own corporeal abstraction, which also indicates a process of gradual formalization, progressing from free forms to order. Matisse, Picasso, and Persian miniature paintings inspired Ghandriz's early figurative work.
Persian metalwork and Persian textiles inspired is later work.
Ghandriz played a pivotal role in the establishing the Iran Gallery (), founded in 1964 by Ghandriz, Rouin Pakbaz,
Faramarz Pilaram, Sadegh Tabrizi, Mohammad-Reza Jodat, Ghobad Shiva,
Massoud Arabshahi, Sirus Malek, Farshid Mesghali, Parviz Mahallati,
Morteza Momayez
Morteza Momayez ( fa, مرتضی ممیز; August 26, 1936 – October 25, 2005) was an Iranian graphic designer. He was one of the founders of Iranian Graphic Design Society (IGDS) and held a membership to Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) ...
, and Hadi Hezareiy.
Death and legacy
Ghandriz died on 26 February 1966 in a traffic accident in northern Iran, near
Esfand
Esfand ( fa, اسفند, ) is the twelfth and final month of the Solar Hijri calendar, the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. Esfand has twenty-nine days normally, and thirty during leap years. It begins in February and ends in March of ...
,
Gilan province.
After his death in 1966, the Iran Gallery was renamed Ghandriz Gallery () in his honor; and it remained open until the summer of 1978 during the
Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dyna ...
.
In 2016, his work "Untitled" sold for US $250,000.
Sources
External links
Grey Art Gallery, University of New York*
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1936 births
1966 deaths
Iranian printmakers
People from Tabriz
20th-century Iranian painters