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Publications
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Publishing:
- Research on "The Art of Achamanenians" Printed in Sokhan
and Negin Published in 1957 and 1958.
- A series of Articles and criticism on painting in Iranian
publications and Sokhan magazine.
- 1973 Art book entitled "Iran Darroudi's Painting" Secend
edition Amir Kabir Publications.
- 1996 The book entitled "The Distance between tow points".
2000 Fifth edition of " The Distance between tow points".
- 2004 Art book entitled
"Hearing eye"
- Art Works
- Number of pages : 294 pages
- 106 Paintings
- All pages colored
- Introduction by Iran
Darroudi
- Biography by Habib Sharifi
- Analyze by Dr. Javad Mojabi
- Languages : Farsi , French
, English
- Size 31-26cm
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Distance between
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Painting is my rebellion patience.
Out of the submission to my destiny which introduced me to
the worst poignant experiences , I created my most colorful
beliefs. My colored credence were formed on the canvas to
portray my gratitude, my rebellion, my soaring , and my cry......
And about my painting.....it befriended me ever since the
innocence of childhood. My father handed me my first box of
color pencils ,and affectionately told me of the glamour of
images and the glitter of colors. Recollections from past
life in conjunction together with an adoration of colors were
implanted in the depth of my eyes and joined me with painting
: a zealous, vigorous , and unbreakable union, and thenceforward,
a crust of color ashes and images covered my canvas......
In painting, I have always been seeking a piece of crystal
to multiply that radiation of light, which is the lot of my
diminutive existence, within its crystalline painters. Perchance,
in an instant, I will shatter that multi-cut crystal in my
palms and grant a splinter of which as a gift to those who
do not know love.
In search of the identity and culture of my homeland, my
glance pauses on special images and perspectives: Persepolis,
history of my country; Mashhad, the city of many minarets,my
hometown ; and.....a summer resort village near Mashhad which
, for a while during the World War II, used to be the hiding
place of the family, and its images never vacated my paintings.....
In my paintings, the bright recollections of expanses, droplets,
affections, and the flowers which my father used to plant
in our orchard all were shaped with the immense layers of
paint. In some, they have manifested the grandeur and fragility
of paradise with the intricate conceptions of love, and in
others ,they have expressed the "captivity of the crystal"
of my strife for living and for being this way.....
In my paintings, I am present with my whole existence; I
am present with all the weaknesses, and the anxieties, hopes,
and competences. My inward world is as large as the experiences
I know of life; the span of an instant in the course of eternity.
I strive to preserve, in this moment of presence, my disintegrated
integration in order that its persistence and permanence are
reverberated in my echoes.
For years, this crystalline world has been inviting me to
beholding the minute particles of an atom, as well as the
galaxy in order to share the mysteries of what I have perceived
with colors. My colored struggle is the witness to this observation
until.....I reach the pinnacle of light . Where shall I gain
it ?
It was in affections, in loves, and in the senses of living
that I obtained cognizance of colors.
And then I came to the belief : This world , even before
being colored with the essential or complementary colors,
was tinted by the color of our feelings......
To me, the colorless color of white is similar to light,
without being of the substance of light. Once I capture the
color of white with the brush and release it into my paintings,
I shall paint a sky which is not a sky, but only the depiction
of a feel of flying . Albeit I have been dreaming of flying
, my inner soul is not seeking perfection, since it is by
acceptance of flaws which we reach the reality of man. ........
My vivid struggles are neither adventurous nor storytelling
; they are just an image of the reflections and contemplation
of my subjectivity. Incidents take place within me; freed
from the known and from the unknown. I stand at the sky's
extremity and then I behold the crystals, lights, and droplets
which fall from the height of the sky on the bare, blank canvas;
these confidants of the private secrets fall and spread out
my transmuted soul into the space. ........
Would it be that one may find another reality through the
contrast of these wild colors and within the paradox of formless
forms ? In passing what passage of phantom is it possible
that one can be unified with the universe as a particle of
existence , and turn into the sea as a droplet ? Is it not
true that no experience exists outside man's knowledge , and
that everything in life ought to be positioned within a universal
order; just as the man and his subjectivity are? .......
IRAN DARROUDI sep. 1999
Iran Darroudi depicts the dimensions of time and space in
a way that one can call her the artist of ethereal moments.
Iran Darroudi's surrealistic paintings which spring from
a pure and clear source, shares some objective similarities
with the surrealistic paintings of the great artists of this
western painting school. But with no doubt, such objective
similarities possess some profound subjective dissimilarities
from the western surrealistic paintings , since Darroudi's
works originate from an eastern mysticism whose vague quietude
falls upon all the component elements of a work ; a quietude
which takes all in itself and grants a poetic crystallization
to time and to light. And it is in this way that two attitudes
and worldviews , diverse in appearance, achieve an ultimate,
harmonious effect.
HOUSHANG TAHERI
1973
Tanslation: Sima Daad
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Iran Darroudi
works 1959 - 1973 |
Iran Darroudi's works are full of ideas that have been developed
to their logical conclusions. Having secured an extraordinary
technique she has succeeded in registering on her canvas the
most sensitive trembling of the soul. At times and with a
few strokes of the brush only she succeeds in creating an
atmosphere that provokes wonder: an atmosphere in which all
the hopes, defeats and wishes of man are manifested.
Iran Darroudi is an artist who is aware of her social and
historical responsibilities as a painter and an intellectual.
Her sensitive soul is meeting place of progressive thoughts.
At times symbols such as rocks and flowers juxtaposed against
fresh flowers indicate this. Rocks, perhaps, symbolise thoughts
that have reached a cul-de-sac while flowers indicate hope
for the better future.
Iran Darroudi depicts the dimensions of time and space in
a way that one can call her the artist of ethereal moments.
Darroudi's Surrealism is based on a lively culture that enables
her to portray the most captivating of atmospheres. She uses
her colours with utmost dexterity using them for the depiction
not only of conditions of life but also of relations between
human beings. In this she often approaches the peak of artistic
achievement. But Iran Darroudi is constantly in search of
new forms; she can not stay where she is for long. Thus we
can hope that she will surprise us yet again in the future
and on her path towards perfection.
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André Malraux |
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