TEHRAN, Sep. 08 (MNA) Iranian well-known painters works will be on display in Sahipkaraniye Palace for one week length.Kamal-ol-molks paintings will be on display for public in Sahipkaraniye Palace of Niavaran Palace Complex on September 7-15.
30 artworks of Kamal-ol-molk, Iranian renowned painter of Qajar Era, are on show in Niavaran.
Mohammad Ghaffari, known as Kamal-ol-Molk, was an Iranian painter born in Kashan in 1848.
Upon completion of his primary education, Mohammad moved to Tehran. To further his studies, he registered in Dar-ol-Funun School, a modern institute of higher education in Iran, where he studied painting with Mozayyen-od-Doleh, a well-known painter who had visited Europe and studied western art.
He studied there for a period of three years. In his school days, the young Ghaffari was given the name Mirza Mohammad Kashi. In this short period of education he was able to attract public attention to himself as a talented artist.
In his visits to Dar-ol-Fonoon, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar came to know Mohammad Ghaffari and, having observed his talent, he invited him to the court. Mohammad did his best to perfect his technique. Noticing his mastery in painting, Nasereddin Shah gave him the title "Kamal-ol-Molk (Perfection on Land)."
During the years he stayed at Naser al-Din Shah Qajar's court, Kamal-ol-Molk created some of his most significant works. The paintings he did in this period, which lasted up until the assassination of Naseral-DinShah, were portraits of important people, landscapes, paintings of royal camps and hunting grounds, and different parts of royal palaces.
In this busiest period of Kamal-ol-Molk's artistic life, he created over 170 paintings. Unfortunately, most of these paintings have either been destroyed or taken abroad.
The works he created in this period indicate his desire to discover the laws of oil painting. He advanced so much that he even acquired laws of perspective by himself and applied them to his works. His mastery in the delicate use of a brush was well as bright and lively colors distinguished him from his contemporaries.
This art show is open to public every day untill September 15.
By Mehr News Agency
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