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TEHRAN -- The 7th Fajr International Festival of Visual Arts opened on Tuesday with a variety of exhibitions, highlighting three decades of Iranian illustration art.
Organized by the Association of Iranian Illustrators, a selection of works by over 80 veteran illustrators are on show at Tehran’s Saba Art and Cultural Institute, Persian media reported on Tuesday.
Parviz Kalantari, Farshid Mesqali, Gholamali Maktabi, Sadeq Sandoqi, Akbar Nikanpur, Bahram Khaef and Ebrahim Haqiqi are among the illustrators whose works are being exhibited.
Artworks in different fields of art including photography, painting, calligraphy, poster and cartoon are on display during the festival.
The Palestine Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting photos of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Over 20 photos by Kaveh Golestan, Abdolhossein Partovi, Mohammad Sayyad and several others are on show in the museum.
A group of veteran and novice graphic designers are also hanging their works in an exhibit at the Saba Institute.
Moreover, exhibitions of calligraphy, calligraphic painting, earthenware and ceramic works have been arranged during the festival, which will be running until March 3.
In addition, the Iranian Artists Forum and Niavaran Cultural Center are hosting the side section programs of the festival.
“Messenger of Kindness”, “World against Violence” and “Islamic Revolution Artworks” are the themes of this edition of the festival.
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