Parviz kalantari biography sample

KALĀNTARI, PARVIZ (b.

Parviz Kalantari is a painter born in in Tehran, Iran and died in Many works by the artist have been sold at auction.

Parviz Kalantari is a painter born in in Tehran, Iran and died in Many works by the artist have been sold at auction.

Born in , Zanjan BA in Painting, Fine Arts Faculty, Tehran University, Numerous individual and group exhibitions in Iran and abroad.

KALĀNTARI, PARVIZ (b.

Late Parviz Kalantari was the modern of Iran's leading painters.

Parviz Kalantari, a painter, illustrator, animator, and writer, was born on March 21, , in Zanjan.

Zanjān, 22 March 1931; d. Tehran, 20 May 2016), painter, graphic designer, writer, and a pioneering illustrator of Iranian children’s books (Figure 1).

Life. Parviz Kalāntari was the eldest child in a family of five siblings.

His father, Bāqer Kalāntari (1907-94) was an employee of the Ministry of Transportation in Zanjān, and his mother, Moḥtaram Mollābāši (1906-2001) worked as a freelance dressmaker. When Parviz was three years old, the family moved to Tehran and he started practicing art by drawing on the walls of his middle-class family’s traditional house (Kalāntari, 2014).

During the last years of high school and prior to the coup d’état of 1332 Š./1953, he published some of his caricatures in the satirical newspaper Čalangar (Kalāntari, 2014), and attended the meetings of the progressive Ḵorus jangi art society through his acquaintance with the avant-garde artist and critic, Jalil Ziapour (