Death of Franco-Iranian painter Abbas Moayeri
Iranian painter and sculptor Abbas Moayeri, here in 2019, died on October 24, 2020 in Paris, at the age of 81.
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Recognized as one of the greatest masters of Persian miniature, the Franco-Iranian painter and sculptor Abbas Moayeri died Saturday, October 24 in Paris, at the age of 81.
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The miniatures sometimes look like the stars.
They light up our nights and our shadows sketching a horizon to dream of.
Tiny in appearance, they deploy their light in countless and often unknown universes.
And when we perceive their message, it is not sure that the star still exists.
It is then up to us to bring his hope to life and perpetuate his imagination.
An artist who wanted to bring peace to the world
It was during a meeting to discuss Nowruz, the Persian New Year, that he welcomed us to his bright workshop located in a courtyard in the 19th arrondissement.
In the middle of the frames and the canvases, we discover a warm, discreet, passionate man, whose works seem to reflect his soul and his conviction that artists should bring peace to the world.
One of his miniatures, composed of gold and black watercolor on somewhat parchment paper, was titled
Peaceful Coexistence
: "
Each of the people you see in this miniature does what they want to do, without bothering the other.
The dervish says his prayer, the lover makes love, the poet reads his poem, and animals also live in peace ...
"
Born in 1939, in Racht, Iran, Abbas Moayeri was a student of famous masters of Persian miniature and painting such as Esmaïl Ashtiani, Mohammad Ali Zavier or Hossein Behzâd, of whom he was to be the successor to the prestigious post at the end of the 1960s. as a professor at the Tehran School of Fine Arts.
Curious to discover the world, he finally settled in Paris at the end of the 1970s, happy to find himself in a city-world: “
I learned much more about the art of Persian miniature in France than Iran.
For that, I gave up my profession of professor at the Fine arts of Tehran and I started my Parisian life
”
.
An ambassador of the art of Persian miniature
He loved to stroll through the ruins of the mythical city of Persepolis to enrich the lines in his sketchbook and to bring his works to life with a thousand-year-old spirit.
In Paris, he remained viscerally attached to his Persian culture, one of the cradles of world civilization.
Beyond his own works and numerous awards (the Silver Medal of the Academic Society of Arts-Sciences-Letters of the French Academy in 1985, the Gold Medal for French Merit and Devotion in France in 2000, the Diploma honor of the
Iranica Encyclopedia
in 2009), he has never ceased to promote and share the art of Persian miniature through courses and workshops.
Detail of a painting by Iranian painter and sculptor Abbas Moayeri.
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With his disappearance, we can easily imagine Abbas Moayeri transforming himself into a character in his own miniatures: a floating soul no longer having its feet on the ground to fly to its paradise.
► To read also:
Nowruz 2019, with the Iranian painter Abbas Moayeri
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