● Birthplace: Tehran
● Died: 31 October 1985 in Tehran
Biography
Arapik Baghdasarian, in Armenian: Արապիկ Բաղդասարեան, cartoonist, was a graphic designer, Iranian director and translator. He completed his studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Tehran University in painting and about one year in the field of graphic in France. Because of interest and passion, in the fields: cartoons, graphics and illustration of the book. But his reputation is more than directing short films, fiction and animation. He is the founders of the film-making division of the intellectual Development of children and adolescents. Caricatures he was released in one of two prestigious magazines, including Negin Magazine, AKA: Petros Karamin, and until years, nobody was informed of the true identity of the creator. Ruyin Pakbaz in Encylopedia art, Baghdabarian introduces a knowledgeable, tizbin and dominant artist, and adds to him in his time, as it should not be known. He worked in the fields of visualization and design of books, animated paintings, posters, and advertising art, but was more interested in the caricature and cartoons. He found black humor a perfect tool for expressing mankind’s friendship and social sensitivities. In this context, the methods of teachers of old and new, and more than anything, will be important to the impact of the social image release. His pictures were a pounding statement that condemned not only oppression and repression, which denounced foolishness and hallucinations.
Baghdasarian, worked in graphics and book illustration at the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents and then at the Franklin Publishing Institute. He played an active and effective role along with Nooruddin Zarinkalak and Ebrahim Haghighi in the effective promotion of the graphics orders of the Grapharm atelier between 1984 and 1988. At that time, the main activities of the Grapharm workshop were in the field of generic drug design, of which pharmaceutical factories and the Association of Pharmacists of the Medical System were pioneers. Before the 1978 Islamic Revolution in Iran, Arapik was also present with a group of students of the Faculty of Fine Arts who created posters for the revolution.
He is one of the founders of the film Division for the Intellectual Development of children and adolescents. The artist of the course is a period of time, Nooredin Zarrin Kelk, Farshid Mesghali, Ali Akbar Sadeghi, and Morteza Momayez that transformed the animation in the spotlight, style and hampered. He was also the founders of the Ubayd Hall of Tehran University, and exhibited some of his plans there.
Ruyin Pakbaz, in the 3-cutaneous collection of Art Encyclopedia, published in 2016, by the contemporary Iranian publishing company in the culture of the Tehran about Arapik Baghdasarian wrote: Arapik lived only 46 years. A short but fruitful lifetime with powerful works and the idea of the owner. He took his time, so as to be known. He worked in the fields of visualization and design of books, animated paintings, posters, and advertising art, but was more interested in the caricature and cartoons. He found Black Humor a perfect tool for expressing mankind’s friendship and social sensitivities. In this context, the methods of teachers of old and new, and more than anything, will be important to the impact of the social image release.
In the year 1985, a few months later, he died in Razi hospital in Tehran.
Works
1970 – Weightlifting-Anime
1970 – Caught-anime
1970 – Bread and alley-short film-director assistant. Constructed by Abbas Kiarostami
1971 – Protected area-short film-Previous name: Tehran, Iran km 100. The film was produced in the year 1972 but was banned after the revolution in 1979.
1972 – Caught-short film
Translation
Arapic Baghdasarian, in its late short life, is to translate and publish art books. Some of these books had educational aspects in the field of design, including two books: a pen and ink design, and the design learning style, written by Jose Paremon, published by Spring Publishing in 1986. From other examples of translation he can refer to a book of eighty pictures of the flower statues (China’s peasant Revolution) in 1985.
Awards
The first experiences of film making of Baghdasarian have been awarded the World Awards.
He was caught up for animation: The jury’s letter to the International Children and Youth Festival, and the title of the best short film of 35 mm from the Paris festival. He has also been caught as the best film from the Tampere Film Festival in Finland.
Star Designer Exhibition
A gallery, with the aim of an overview of Arapik Baghdasarian works, the exhibition found his works on February 18 to March 10, 2016. Amir Esbati, Arash Tanhai and Amir Soghrati tried to show the parts of the life of the frenzy and the multi-faceted Arapik Baghdasarian. The views were published in the statement: Caricatures Arapic, nicknamed Petros Karamian, in the prestigious Pearl Magazine. Drawings, posters, books that have been translated and published. The film was in a protected area, which has been banned for years and his animations: caught and the weight of the vector. Also works by Arapic recall from: Amir Esbati, Mostafa Asadollahi, Mohammad Ali Baniasadi, Ebrahim Haghighi, Ali Khosravi, Mostafa Ramezani, Jamshid Samavatian, Davood Shahidi, Kiumars Kiasat, Nematollah Lalehi, Ali Asghar Mohtaj, Mahnoosh Moshir, Masoumeh Mozafari, Masoud Mehrabi in this work view in Came.
In addition to the iconic sections of the documentary about him: A Distant But Clear Star, directed by Morteza Akochakiyan and number two, then, special for the intellectual development of children and teenagers, was unveiled in the second week of the exhibition. The exhibition, with the magazine, then, the seven and the digital printing complex of Kufa was established.
