The commemoration ceremony of Mohammad Mahdi Harati, a member of the traditional arts and handicrafts department of Farhangistan Iranian Academy of Arts, will be held in January of this year, along with an exhibition of his and his family’s works.
According to Artmag.ir, citing the public relations of Iranian Academy of Arts, Alireza Esmaili, the secretary of the art academy, along with Mohammad Ali Rajabi, the head of the specialized department of traditional arts and crafts of the art academy, and Mahdi Makkinjad, a member of the academic staff of the art academy, visited master Mohammad Mahdi Herati.
In this meeting, while visiting the artworks of masterr Harati and his family, it was decided to attend a commemoration ceremony that will be held for him at Iranian Academy of Arts, an exhibition of the artworks of this artist and some of his family members should be held at the Saba Cultural and Art Institute.
Mohammad Mahdi Harati was born in 1942 in the city of Quchan. He completed his primary and secondary education in Quchan and Mashhad and then entered the university in Tehran and obtained a doctorate degree in painting and traditional arts from the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. After teaching art and mathematics in the border villages of Khorasan, he entered the Tehran Art Institute and studied under famous Iranian masters. He himself authored and edited countless works in the field of art.
He has been painting for 45 years and has authored more than 30 volumes of books in the field of art education and art research and has presented more than forty articles in art and scientific conferences and magazines. Herati, in addition to the literary, historical and Quranic fields, in the fields of Iranian and Islamic arts, such as drawing, black pen painting (Siahghalam), oil paint, water color, segmentation and layering, painting, traditional painting, painting on wood and pencil, painting on Glass, ceramics and leather, painting with glazed colors on tiles and ceramics, calligraphy of ancient lines, have presented lasting works, eight of which are kept in Astan Quds Razavi Museum in Mashhad.
Harati has also participated in countless domestic and international exhibitions and has been able to receive numerous awards, including: the award of the first international audio-visual exhibition in Tehran in 1971, the second award of the Ministry of Education in The second audio-visual exhibition of the country in Tehran, in 1972, the award for the best researcher of Iranian art biennial in the Museum of Contemporary Arts, in 1994, a certificate of appreciation and a special presidential award for authoring a three-volume book about Quranic arts and presenting works, and Appreciation and the first award of Center for the Intellectual Development of Child and Adolescent in 1998.
Master Harati is currently a member of the specialized group of traditional arts and crafts of Iranian Academy of Arts.
