Parvin Etesami's Imagery Poems
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International Journal of Research p-ISSN: 2348-6848 e-ISSN: 2348-795X Available at https://edupediapublications.org/journals Volume 07 Issue 02 February 2020 Parvin Etesami's Imagery Poems Seyed Asadollah Tabibzadeh Graphic Designer Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University Tehran Central Branch College of Art PhD in Communication & Journalism at Osmania University College of Art, Hyderabad, India Email:[email protected] Abstract: (Iran) is the startup of this article in aspect of historical, social, political and lifestyle This article is about Etesan1i's changing on that area. This style has been Imagery Poems and the influence of her influenced by many social, cultural and background, lifestyle and the social aspects political issues during the years that are one of the time of her life and the illustration of the important matters in Etesami's style evolution in Persian history on her Imagery also, that is explained in this text. Poems Style. The history of Imagery Poems in the World and then specifically, in Persia 1. Imagery Poems and Illustration (Iran) is the startup of this article in aspect of historical, social, political and lifestyle Imagery Poems draw the reader into changing on that area. This style has been poetic experiences by touching on the influenced by many social, cultural and images and senses' which the reader already political issues during the years that are one knows. The use of linage’s in this type of of the important matters in Etesami's style poetry serves to intensify the impact of the also that is explained in this text. work. It also tries to explain how she rhymed her style to describe the day to day An illustration is an image presented matters that were simple to understand as as a drawing that is created to elucidate or reminder of good habits and ways of life dictate sensual information (such as a story, that religion and Persian culture told us poem or newspaper article) by providing a before. That is the important factor makes visual representation graphically. In this her work so unique and special. article the main subject is related to the Poem Illustration rather than other kinds of Keywords: Imagery Poems, Poetry, illustration. Graphic Design At a first glance, the two above Introduction: definitions are the same but in two different aspects. Drawing an Imagery Poems for This article is about Etesami's visualizing the sensual information and Imagery Poems and the influence of her messages of the poem is exactly the background, lifestyle and the social aspects definition of poem illustration. So as a of the time of her life and the illustration conclusion, the imagination of a poet in the evolution in Persian history on her Imagery imagery poems can be realized by the poen1 Poems Style. The history of In1ageryPoems illustration techniques in the real world. in the world and then specifically, in Persia Available online: http://edupediapublications.org/journals/index.php/IJR/ P a g e | 195 International Journal of Research p-ISSN: 2348-6848 e-ISSN: 2348-795X Available at https://edupediapublications.org/journals Volume 07 Issue 02 February 2020 All poem illustrations in general as medieval illuminated manuscripts, were have common format; this format is hand-illustrated. Illustration has been used included a page of poem and one page of in China and Japan since the 8th century, illustration. This illustration sometimes is traditionally by creating woodcuts to printed in opposite page and sometimes on accompany writing. the top and bottom of the pages or in the background of the poem. Poem illustration has two different types. One type is completely realistic, in this type all the figures and illustrations show the real things and are connected to the same as in the poems, in this type the poet uses the metaphors to describe the events of the poem as they are, like Nizami's Leyla and Majnun; the second type is related to the poetic and symbolic illustration mostly use objects or animals as symbols of the people in the poem like Ferdowsi's Shahnameh and Saadi's Bustan that the poet doesn't use any directed metaphors. Meditationes passionis Christi; Devote meditatione sopra la passione del nostro Signore (Devout The most important part of Persian Meditations on the Passion of Our Lord): The illustration (miniature) is illustration of the Raising of Lazarus, opening page (folios 1v and 2r) Author: Pseudo-Bonaventura poem that was known as book design; there Venice: Hieronymus de Sanctis & Cornelio, are such designs in Shahnameh Baysunqur, 1487Printed book with woodcut illustrations Saadi's Bustan and Golestan, Nizami 8 11/16 x 6 5/16 x 1/2 in. (22 x 16 x 1.3 cm)Harris Ganjavi's Layla and Majnun. One of the Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933 (33.17) great points in the Old Persian illustration is that the poems and their illustration complete each other in all aspects. During the 15th century, books illustrated with woodcut illustrations became available. The main processes used One of the important factor for knowing about imagery poems and for reproduction of illustrations during the illustration is related to study about the 16th and 17th centuries were engraving and route of the history of imagery poems and etching. At the end of the 18th century, illustration that can show the influence of lithography allowed even better illustrations to be reproduced. The most notable social and political events and day to day routine life on the evolution of this style of illustrator of this epoch was William Blake poetry. who rendered his illustrations in the medium of relief etching. 1.1 Early history and the first The golden age of Italian woodcut illustration books illustration began in the last quarter of the fifteenth century and lasted for roughly 100 The earliest forms of illustration were years, during which period some of the most prehistoric cave paintings. Before the harmonious and delightful books ever invention of the printing press, books, such produced issued from Italian presses. The Available online: http://edupediapublications.org/journals/index.php/IJR/ P a g e | 196 International Journal of Research p-ISSN: 2348-6848 e-ISSN: 2348-795X Available at https://edupediapublications.org/journals Volume 07 Issue 02 February 2020 woodcuts designed for these books, in which one can find the graceful refinement of Botticelli, the monumental classicism of Mantegna, the idealized naturalism of Titian, and the mannered elegance of Salivate, are among the most beautiful prints of the Italian Renaissance. 1.2 Technique of illustration (Miniature) In the classic period artists were exclusively male, and normally grouped in workshops, of which the royal workshop (not necessarily in a single building) was much the most prestigious, recruiting talented artists from the bazaar workshops in the major cities. However, the nature of the royal workshop remains unclear, as some manuscripts are recorded as being worked on in different cities, rulers often took artists with them on their travels, and at least some "The construction of fort Khavarnaq" artists were able to work on private by Behzad, Herat c. 1494-1495, Timurid era C01ru11issions. As in Europe, sons very traditions of miniature were based on often followed their father into the Persian painting but developed rather workshop, but boys showing talent fro1n different styles. any background might be recn1ited; at least The work was often divided between one notable painter was born a slave. There the n1ain painter, who drew the outlines, were son1e highly placed amateur artists, and less senior painters who coloured in the including Shah Tahmaspl (reigned 1524- drawing. In Mughal miniature at least, a 1576), who was also one of the greatest third artist might do just the faces. Then patrons of miniatures. Persian artists were there n1ight be the border paintings; in most highly sought after by other Islamic courts, books using them these are by far the largest especially those of the Ottoman and Mughal area of painted n1aterial as they occur on En1pires, whose own. text pages as well. The miniatures in a book were often divided up between different artists, so that the best manuscripts represent an overview of the finest work of the period. The scribes or calligraphers were normally 'different people, on the whole regarded as having a rather higher status than the artists The names are likely to be noted in the manuscript. Royal librarians probably played a significant role in managing the commissions; the extent of direct involvement by the ruler himself is Available online: http://edupediapublications.org/journals/index.php/IJR/ P a g e | 197 International Journal of Research p-ISSN: 2348-6848 e-ISSN: 2348-795X Available at https://edupediapublications.org/journals Volume 07 Issue 02 February 2020 normally unclear. The scribes wrote the The techniques are broadly comparable to main text first, leaving spaces for the the Western and Byzantine traditions of miniatures, presumably having made a plan miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. for thesewith the artist and the librarian. The Although there is an equally well- book covers were also richly decorated for established Persian tradition of wall- luxury manuscripts, and when they too have painting, the survival rate and state of figurative scenes these presumably used preservation of miniatures is better, and drawings by the same artists who created miniatures are much the best-known form of the miniatures. Paper was the normal Persian painting in the West, and many of material for the pages, unlike the vellum the most important examples are in normally used in Europe for as long as the Western, or Turkish, museums. Miniature illuminated manuscript tradition lasted. The painting became a significant Persian genre paper was highly polished, and when not in the 13th century, receiving Chinese given painted borders might be flecked influence after the Mongol conquests, and with-gold leaf.