Iranian carpets of the Faravakhar company with traditional plot compositions and picturesque scenes

Школьна, Ольга Володимирівна and Белнакіта, Уляна Миколаївна (2024) Iranian carpets of the Faravakhar company with traditional plot compositions and picturesque scenes Український мистецтвознавчий дискурс (6). pp. 208-215. ISSN 2786-5894

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Abstract

The purpose of the article is to reveal the specific technological, compositional and artistic-figurative features of Iranian carpets of the Faravakhar company with plot compositions, taking into account the recent spread of the trend in Ukraine to decorate modern interiors with oriental works of art, which is characteristic mostly of the urban environment of the early 21st century, and is focused primarily on a narrow circle of antique connoisseurs and collectors of Kyiv, Odessa, Lviv, and Kharkiv. The main idea of the study is reduced to a unique range of products presented on the Ukrainian market by the Faravakhar company, which are distinguished by a high culture of execution and specific filigree selection of drawings from traditional Persian miniatures, with a perfect, perfect technical embodiment of finished artistic ideas. The research toolkit is based on a set of principles, approaches, and methods. In particular, it is based on the principle of comprehensiveness, art history, design and production approaches; ontological, hermeneutic, axiological, historical-genetic, historical-chronological, comparative, cultural-creative, socio-cultural, iconographic, formal-stylistic and art history analysis methods. Among the significant tasks of the study, the need to outline the essence of the specific features of the creativity of Iranian masters in the field of traditional Persian carpet weaving, which combines aspects of knowledge of technology and artistic skill in the production of plot drawings borrowed from Persian literature written in Farsi, is highlighted; the need to determine the circle of artists of the famous carpet weaving centers of Iran, working in the two-knot technique, including using silk thread; as well as the need to distinguish the creative handwriting of individual masters who specialize in developing plots of Iranian miniature in modern carpet weaving of Iran, taking into account the color scheme, the use of ornamental compositions in the works of specific authors and the full introduction of their names to the list of the best specialists in this type of art of the beginning of the 21st century, whose names are associated with the best examples of unique author's works. Data are provided on the achievements of individual masters in well-known centers of Persian carpet weaving, taking into account the key style-forming features of this area of decorative and applied arts and design of the specified country in the 2010s – 2020s. The most valuable, iconic works of various authors of the specified country in the specified field, represented in Ukraine by the Faravahar company, are illustrated. The iconographic characteristics of the works of modern Iranian carpet weavers with a plot are revealed, in which the hand of a skilled master with knowledge of the most expensive world techniques for performing representative works of this group with motifs of traditional pictorial scenes of Persian miniature was felt

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	carpet; Iran; Faravahar; plot; project; decor; composition; Ukraine; design; early 21st century; Persian miniature; pictorial scenes; carpet weaving; stylistics; coloristics; decorative and applied arts
Subjects:	Статті у періодичних виданнях > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН)
Divisions:	Факультет образотворчого мистецтва і дизайну > Кафедра образотворчого мистецтва
Depositing User:	доцент вероніка іванівна зайцева
Date Deposited:	26 Mar 2026 12:33
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2026 12:33
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/56702

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