Background

Farshchian was born in Isfahan, Iran, on January 24, 1930. His father was a rug merchant.

Education

In his early years, Mahmoud Farshyan showed an interest in art. He studied under the supervision of Haji Mirza-Agha Emami and Isa Bahadori for several years. When Farshyan received his diploma from Isfahan's high school for the fine arts, he went to Europe, where he studied the works of the great Western masters of Painting.

Career

Farshchian returned from Europe to Iran and started to work at the National Institute of Fine Arts, which later became the Ministry of Art and Culture. During this period, he held various positions such as the: an administrator of the Department of National Arts; a director of the Department of National arts; an art professor of the University of Tehran’s School of Fine Arts.

He has held 57 individual shows and participated in 86 group shows in Iran, Europe, America and also Asian countries. His main theme is classical Persian poetry. In his artworks he usually depicts human emotions, moods, feelings as well as desires. So Mahmoud Farshchian’s paintings are basically a mix of Persian poetry with human emotions and Farshchian’s imagination. Shams and Rumi is one of his best-known artworks; it has been inspired by one of Rumi’s poems, a 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, Islamic scholar, and theologian. It took him took two months to complete the painting and it was finally unveiled at the Farshchian Art and Cultural Complex in Isfahan on August 2, 2007.

Farshchian's artworks have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum, Harvard University, The British Library, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Freer Gallery of Art and many more distinguished art academies, schools, museums, and galleries. Currently, Farshchian resides in New Jersey.

Achievements

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  Mahmoud Farshchian is known to be a prominent artist as well as a moderniser of the field of miniatures.
  
  Farshchian's works are represented in several museums and major collections around the world. He has been awarded plenty of prizes by different art institutes and cultural centers, including the Gold Medal from the International Art Festival, Belgium, in 1958; the First Prize in Art from the Ministry of Culture and Art, Iran, in 1973; the Diploma Di Merito from the Universita Delle Arti, Italy, in 1982; the Gold Statuette from the Oscar D'Italia in 1985; the Golden Palm of Europe in 1987. In the year 2000, he was mentioned among the most outstanding intellectuals of the 21st Century, Cambridge, England.
  
  A museum devoted to the works of the master, The Museum of Master Mahmoud Farshchian, was set up by the Cultural Heritage Foundation in the Sa'dabad Cultural Complex in Tehran in 2001.

Works

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  • Gaze

  • Pleasure and Pain

  • Chaste

  • Yearning to be caressed

  • Sublimation

  • Joyful Spring

  • Genesis

  • Cosmic Dance

  • Gestures Of Grace

  • Persian Miniature Oil Painting Dr27

  • Persian Miniature Oil Painting Dr31

  • Persian Miniature Oil Painting Dr30

  • Persian Miniature Oil Painting Dr29

  • Persian Miniature Oil Painting Dr32

  • Persian Miniature Oil Painting Dr33

  • Persian Miniature Oil Painting Dr34

  • Dawn (Deep Blue)

  • Hafez (Deep Light)

  • Bestow

  • Guarantor of Gazelle

  • Dawn

  • Bolbol (Nightingale)

  • Fifth Day of Creation

  • Genesis

  • A Sip in Turn

  • Being an Image on Screen of Being

  • Growth

  • Born in the Kabbah

  • But Why?

  • Guiding Star

  • Four Seasons

  • Garden of Fire

  • Celebration of Learning

  • Coming of Spring

Connections

Mahmoud Farshchian's son Alimorad Farshchian works as a doctor.

Son:

Alimorad Farshchian

References

• Selected Paintings Of Mahmoud Farshchian Negarestan Collection This collection contains many of Farshchian's best-known works as well as a few you may not have seen before.
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• Selected Paintings of Mahmoud Farshchian This collection contains 40 of Farshchian's best-known works.
  2007