Mahmoud Farshchian is a master of Persian painting and miniatures. He was born in the city of
Isfahan in
Iran, a place famed for its art and artists, and it was here where he started to learn art, painting and sculpting.
Farshchian is the founder of his own school in Iranian Painting, which adheres to classical form while making use of new techniques to broaden the scope of Iranian painting.
He has brought new life to this art form and has freed it from the symbiotic relationship it has historically had with poetry and literature, to give it an independence it had not previously enjoyed.
His powerful and innovative paintings are dynamic, expansive and vibrant canvases with an appealing fusion of the traditional and the modern, which are constituents of his unique style of painting.
The Museum of Master Mahmoud Farshchian", is a museum devoted to the works of the master, which has been set up by the Cultural Heritage Foundation in the Sa'dabad Cultural Complex in
Tehran, inaugurated in 2001.
Master Farshchian was awarded this museum based on his tremendous contributions in the
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Open 6 days a week to the public, it contains several galleries, which exclusively exhibit early and contemporary original works by Farshchian.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org
http://www.farshchianart.com/html/museum.htm
