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society in Iran.

History

The group was established in 1949 by painters Jalil Ziapour, Mahmoud Javadipour, and Javad Hamidi; alongside Gholamhossein Gharib (painter), Hassan Shirvani (theater actor), and

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(musician). The society also published a magazine with the same title. The headquarters of the society was Ziapour's studio on Takht-e-Jamshid Street in Tehran. The first meeting of the group was on 15 April 1949, to discuss the importance of the name, the symbolism, and how it aligned with their goals. The group meet weekly. He declared the society's purpose to be "a fight against the unrealistic traditionalism of the time" and chose a verse by

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as the motto of the society: "The story of Alexander is old and turned into a myth/ Bring a new word, for there is another sweetness to the new".صابر تهرانی، شهین. ''مجموعه سخنرانیهای هنری - تحقیقی زنده یاد استاد جلیل ضیاءپور''. تهران: انتشارات اسلیمی، ۱۳۸۲.

Members

* Gholamhossein Gharib * Javad Hamidi *

* Mahmoud Javadipour * Bahman Mohasses * Hassan Shirvani * Jalil Ziapour

References

{{Authority control Iranian contemporary art Surrealist groups Defunct magazines published in Iran