● Birthplace: Zanjan
● Died: 20 May 2016 in Tehran
Biography
His parents were from Taleghan residents, but because of their father’s jobs, they stayed in Zanjan for years, and he was born in Zanjan and lived for three years. He showed his interest in the colors of his childhood, and according to his child, he practiced the walls of the neighbors ‘ wall by line. His father, the employee of the RAH-i-Khaneh, was a housewife. He spent the school at the Allameh and high School of Tehran. In 1951, the police station entered Tehran’s fine art school and graduated in the field of visual arts in the year 1959. His acquaintance with Homayoun Sanati Zadeh caused his progression to Franklin’s Publishing Institute, the publisher of the textbooks and The Courier magazine. This way he will bring the illustrations to the textbooks. Master Parviz Kalantari, in 1955, hired the program and budget organization, and in the year 1968, which was transferred to the intellectual development of children and adolescents, he was active in the organization. Late Parviz Kalantari was the modern of Iran’s leading painters. Many of the familiar paintings for primary school children, especially in the ancient books of education, such as foxes and dogs, shepherds, liars, a liar?, duck and Turtle, and the fox and the Crow were his works. He worked at art centers, including the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran and the art College of Children in California, while also director of the intellectual development of children and teenagers in Tehran. The police station has held many groups and individual exhibitions inside and outside the country. An effect of the works of this prominent painter is published on the list of special stamps in the United Nations. The Iranian city’s famous panel is also the Iranian painter, from his works, located at the UN headquarters in Nairobi.
Late Master Parviz Kalantari, about 26 children’s books such as: pumpkin, Jomjomak Autumn leaves, Rose came to spring, and the rainbow has illustrations. The artist’s painter, in writing, was also written and books such as: Vali-e-Yad, four narratives, and not only say that he had published the market. There are also many articles about Iranian art and artist, since this painter and illustrator have been published in Iranian publications, and he has made great efforts to introduce Iranian art to foreign audiences.
Since 1974, he started a new life in his artistic lifestyle from the beginning of the painting of Kahgoli. His signs have a tangible effect of the lives of the people of Desert and the beach. He’s mostly known by Kahageli’s boards, and even though he’s been the foundation of Kahgeli style, but according to himself before him, Marco Grigorian was the first person to do it, although the police station had a Grigorian, which was completely abstract and modern, more gentle and natural. He said: I am the painter of my country’s clay scenery. That’s why he’s depicted both rural and indigenous spaces and symbols in most of his work. Master Kalantari was also a Saqhakhaneh school artist. He also published writing and publishing a series of stories, as well as several art articles regarding the communication of Iranian art and artists, published in Publications. Master Kalantari, on Friday, May 20, 2016, after long tolerance of illness, died due to cerebral and cardiac complication and body weakness.
Exhibitions
Individual
1951 – Sttik Gallery
1961 – Faculty of Fine Arts
1970 – Faculty of Fine Arts
1972 – Seyhoun Gallery
1973 – Museum of Kerman
1975 – Seyhoun Gallery
1987 – Ketab Sara Gallery
1990 – Ketab Sara Gallery
1991 – Classic Gallery – Isfahan
1991 – Horian Gallery – California
1992 – Pariz Gallery – Rafsanjan
2010 – Sareban Gallery – Tehran
Group
1967 – Modern Iranian art exhibition – Columbia University
1970 – Exhibition “25 Years of contemporary Iranian art – Tehran
1974 – The exhibition was iconic Asian Games – Ghandriz Gallery – Tehran
1976 – Contemporary Iranian art exhibition – Tehran
1977 – The art exhibition of Iranian – Washington
1983 – East Asia Museum- California
1988 – Wagner Gallery – Germany
1991 – Tayjan Expo – South Korea
1993 – Ollots Exhibition – Delhi
1995 – 3rd painting Biennial – Tehran
1996 – Group Exhibition – California
1997 – Exhibition of MK2-Paris / 4th painting Biennial – Tehran
1998 – An exhibition in the United Nations Building – New York
1999 – First design biennial – Tehran
2000 – Aztec Gallery – Madrid
2001 – 2nd Painting Biennial – Tehran
2001- Contemporary Iranian art exhibition – London
2014 – Niavaran Palace Museum
2014 – Fajr Visual Festival
Personal Description
Years ago a kid with a charcoal in the alley wrote on the wall of their home: “If you want to know me, head over this line and come.” He twisted and twisted the line to the side wall and then to the neighboring wall, going to the end of the alley and continuing to the next alley, until he suddenly realized he was missing in a strange neighborhood. He began to cry because he was lost. Of course it was natural to cross that line again and go back to the first place. But because he had intertwined the line he could no longer do so.
Now let’s see what happened. No one was supposed to know this kid who would take that line and follow it to know who this kid is! In fact, the psychological meaning of this is that this kid wanted to know himself and was in a field of self-knowledge that went missing. Now years have passed, and I still see him drawing to find himself.
On Saturday morning, the first day of the week and Nowruz 1931 was born at sunrise and at the moment of birth. As he opened his eyes and saw the table of Haft-Sin, he said, “Happy New Year!” So they named him Parviz. At the age of two, he wore a long white shirt and asked his mother to wear different colored buttons on the shirt. A child in a weird shirt that was all covered with Alvan buttons. At the age of two he showed his love of colors and at the age of three, by drawing lines on the walls of his neighbors, he showed Jackson Pollock how to make abstract paintings. Jackson Pollock, of course, was never beaten by neighbors. Even today amidst the scattered memories, I still see him writing on the wall at the age of seven and eight: If you want to know me, head over the line and come.
