Farideh Lashai (; 1944 – February 24, 2013) was an
Iranian
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* Something of, from, or related to Iran
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painter
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, printmaker, video artist, and translator. She was also a writer and translator. Her foremost book is ''Shal Bamu''. She is renowned for her abstract contemporary paintings, which are a combination of traditional and contemporary views of nature.
Life
Farideh Lashai was born in
Rasht
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,
Iran
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. After finishing high school, she went to
Germany
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. After studying in the school of translation in
Munich
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, she studied
decorative arts
]
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at the
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
She then worked for two years in Reidel company.
Her paintings combined the traditional art with contemporary art, including techniques deriving from late 17th century northern Europe. The traditions of
Paul Cézanne
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, and those of the Far East are present in her works, and yet her works are considered to have a contemporary view of nature. Her works are considered a reflection inner insight and a perception of the soul of nature. She never intended to paint the details, but instead to create a symbol and vague understanding of nature, so that they would have the feeling of nature in them.
In the late 1990s, Lashai co-founded Dena Group, an artist collective composed of 12 Iranian female painters.
At the age of 68, after a long period of dealing with cancer, she died in Jam hospital in Tehran.
Solo exhibitions
*1968, Milan, Italy, Gallerie Duomo
*1968, Selb, Germany, Studio Rosenthal
*1973, Tehran, Iran, Seyhoon Gallery
*1974, Tehran, Iran, Tehran Gallery
*1976, Tehran, Iran, Tehran Gallery
*1977, Khoozestan, Iran, Cultural Center of the National Iranian Oil Company
*1984,
Bakersfield
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, USA
Clark Gallery*1987, Basel, Switzerland, Gallery Demenga
*1987, La Vallette, Malta, National Museum of Fine Arts
*1987, Tehran, Iran, Classic Gallery
*1987, Tehran, Iran, Golestan Gallery
*1988, Düsseldorf, Germany
Libertas Gallery*1988, Basel, Switzerland, Gallery Demenga
*1988, Mammoth Lake, USA, Art Gallery
*1990, USA
Berkeley University*1990, London, England
Hill Gallery*1992, Tehran, Iran, Golestan Gallery
*1993, Düsseldorf, Germany, Gallery Aum Hufeisen
*1994, Tehran, Iran, Golestan Gallery
*1995, Pau, France, Gallery Nouste Henric
*1996, Tehran, Iran, Golestan Gallery
*1997, Laudun, France, Gallery Chateau Lascours
*1998, Tehran, Iran, Golestan Gallery
*2005, Tehran, Iran
Mah Art Gallery*2016, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Sharjah Art Foundatio
Group exhibitions
*1968, Ostend, Belgium
International Young Artists*1971, Tehran, Iran, International Exhibition of Tehran (as a member of the Austrian Pavilion)
*1973, Tehran, Iran, Iranian Women Artists International Exhibition of Tehran
*1975, Tehran, Iran, Four Women Artists Exhibition,
Iran-America Society
*1978, Basel, Switzerland, International Exhibition
See also
*
List of Iranian women artists
References
External links
Mah Art GalleryBiography, Selected Works and Exhibitions on Mah Art Gallery
Elahe GalleryBiography and artworks on Elahe Art Gallery
An Iranian Artist Who Found a Form of Resistance in Natureby Bansie Vasvani, May 9, 2016
The Museo del Prado displays the last work by the Iranian artist Farideh Lashai
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Iranian women painters
20th-century Iranian painters
1944 births
2013 deaths
20th-century Iranian women artists
People from Rasht
Iranian printmakers
Iranian video artists