Jafar Petgar (1921-2004) was a renowned Iranian artist born in Tabriz, Azerbaijan, Iran. While living in Iran in the early 80s, one day at the Bazaar in Kermanshah, I came across a man painting from a print of another artist. He told me he was copying the work of the renowned artist Jafar Petgar. I was fascinated by the painting (The Poultry Vendor, 1941) and asked if he could paint another (copy) for me. Unfortunately the painting was destroyed in transit from one country to another because I was not wise in the ways of transporting an art work. But luckily I managed to buy a few prints of Petgar's fantastic paintings, which now adorn a bedroom.
Jafar Petgar's work between 1935 to 1947 'was defined by a focus on objective reality, what he perceived in the world around him. As such he spent most of his energies painting the way people dressed, the way people looked and the way people worked'. Three defining works were The Carpet Menders, 1943 and The Poultry Vendor, 1941, and The Artist's Mother.
(PIC: The Carpet Vendors, 1952)
Petgar's second period between 1947 to 1955 'was more heavily influenced by the influences like literature and mysticism than the objective reality of things, people and places. He was writing poetry at the time, and his paintings show an almost poetic aesthetic inspiration'.
His third period from 1955 till his death in 2004 'is defined by the self-awareness and understanding of the mature artist... his work represented a form of communion between God and man'. He said, "If the artist has not reached God through art, then he has not understood art".
Ref: www.facebook.com/jafar.petgar. Many of Petgar's beautiful paintings are featured here.
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