40% growth of works in the 14th Fajr Festival of Visual Arts

According to Fars News Agency, quoting the press office of the 14th Fajr Festival of Visual Arts, Seyed Abbas Mirhashemi, Secretary General of the festival, announced the news, adding: Are. Among the participants are 2560 women and 1785 men. 1473 artists from Tehran province have participated and 2872 artists from other provinces of the country that Khorasan Razavi province after Tehran with 375 artists, Isfahan with 326 artists and Alborz with 242 artists are in the next categories.

Mirhashemi added: In the field of painting 1317, artists sent 3240 works. In the field of photography, 847 photographers have sent 2033 works to the festival, according to a single photo and a collection of 2033 photos. In the field of graphics, 486 designers have sent 1149 posters to the secretariat.

He also said about other fields: 461 illustrators sent 1120 works and in the field of calligraphy, 329 calligraphers sent 720 paintings in different branches of calligraphy to the festival secretariat. In the field of painting, 310 artists have submitted 600 works for selection.

The Secretary General of the Fajr Festival of Visual Arts said: In the field of new arts, 201 artists submitted 346 works in the fields of performance, arrangement and video art. 185 cartoonists with 469 works had the highest growth compared to the previous period. In the volume works section, 179 artists submitted 327 works in the sculpture category, and in the ceramics section, 67 artists sent 125 works to the festival. In general, the highest growth of the work and the number of artists has been for the fields of caricature, painting and illustration.

Mirhashemi said: “Also, in the section of self-sacrifice and devotion that has been seen as a special section in the call of the festival, 463 artists have sent 733 works in different fields.”

At the end of the 14th Fajr Festival of Visual Arts, the Secretary General invited researchers and critics of visual arts to present their analyzes according to these statistics and then watch the works so that presenting statistics does not mean only numbers and we can use the scientific potential of researchers in analytical terms. .

After announcing the names of the artists according to the disciplines on the festival website, works selection sessions will be held alternately with the presence of teachers and judges, and after this stage, the entries to the exhibition will be announced.

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