The Importance of Painting in Qajar Dynasty Based on the Sociology Point of View

Behnam Pedram,Gholam Reza Rahmani,Mahdi Hosseini

doi:10.7596/taksad.v6i3.967

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Abstract

<p>The paintings of Qajar dynasty are the most thriving and important artworks in Qajar dynasty. Studying Qajar painting helps importantly to identify and study the art and culture of Qajar dynasty. Existence of lots of paintings, diversity of designs, color and subject, combining tradition and modernism were factors for selecting this dynasty to investigate. As the painting is the visual history of each era, sociology studying of painting in this dynasty will make one to understand common culture and thinking of people in that society. Amount of influence of western culture especially during Naser al-Din Shah Era has been at the same time with the creation of these paintings and combination of these paintings with our past legacy schools lead us to the thinking and willing of Qajar artists. As Qajar art and different kinds of painting art were the foundation of contemporary Iran’s painting by a research around this Dynasty, the reasons of excellence, lacks and origins of contemporary painting of Iran can be understood. Research methodology at the beginning was based on library studies while there were little reading resources in books, magazines, internet, documentation, presence in places and photography and then studying of what was seen heard and read.</p>

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Sociology is the study of social behavior or society, including its social life and the rules of the government
This new-established knowledge is a branch of sociology using the findings of social knowledge, the interrelationship of art and other aspects of social life
Society of art studies society and different manifestations of social life from society perspective. Relations that make this art connect with manifestations of social life, and make it identify to be identified with scientific way

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Sociology is the study of social behavior or society, including its social life and the rules of the government. This is reason of creating some artworks like their style This style became tradition in Iran in Safavid Dynasty and was called Foreignizing (Jafari, 2003).This kind of painting reflected national hopes and interests, religious beliefs and culture of different middle layers of urban community. 3-10-6 effective factors on this periods’ painting In the 13th century, on one hand society needed potentially a social and cultural development and Qajar school which originated from traditions of Iranian miniature, was not able to continue to develop in terms of content and form, on the other hand, cultural diffusion which began from Safavid dynasty, in this period had reached the stage that was able to influence thinking and taste of artists (Jafari, 2008). The jobs and professions were determined, and life style the way of living, decorations of house and cloth of groups and guilds were distinguished (Tajbakhsh, 1998)

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