Iranian Poster
イランのポスター / 1960s– / Style / Regional Graphics
The Iranian graphic culture Morteza Momayez opened: the line of Persian calligraphy fused with modernist composition, growing a poster tradition that speaks in poetic metaphor across revolution and war.
Calligraphic line as form / Poetic metaphor / The compositional force of Persian script / A restrained palette
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Morteza Momayez / the Tehran International Poster Biennial / contemporary Iranian typography