Mansoor Ghandriz

• Name — Mansoor Ghandriz • Native Name — منصور قندریز • Other Names — Mansur Qandriz, Mansour Ghandriz • Born — 2 March 1936 • Birthplace — Tabriz, Imperial State of Iran • Died — 26 February 1966 • Place of death — Esfand, Gilan, Imperial State of Iran • Education — Tehran Fine Arts Academy, Tehran University • Occupation — Visual artist • Known for — Painting, printmaking • Movement — Saqqakhaneh movement

• Illustration — "Goodbye" painting by Mansoor Ghandriz from Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Mansoor Ghandriz was born on 2 March 1936 in Tabriz, Pahlavi Iran. While still in high school, Ghandriz was drawn to the progressive realist paintings of Ilya Repin (1844–1930) and Russian-Armenian seascape artist Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900). Starting in 1954 he attended Jalil Ziapour's Tehran School of Decorative Arts (Honarestān-e honarhā-ye zibā); followed by study at the College of Decorative Arts at Tehran University (now University of Tehran). He had studied painting under Shokouh Riazi at the College of Decorative Arts. While in college, he was introduced to European modernism, and he delved into the tradition of Russian realists and European classical and figurative art. After college he turned to a paradigmatic exhortation of modernist language within local Iranian narrative, and developing his own semi-abstract style. Incorporating the figurative techniques of old masters, he created his own corporeal abstraction, which also indicates a process of gradual formalization, progressing from free forms to order. Matisse, Picasso, and Persian miniature paintings inspired Ghandriz's early figurative work. Persian metalwork and Persian textiles inspired is later work. Ghandriz played a pivotal role in the establishing the Iran Gallery (Talar-e Iran), founded in 1964 by Ghandriz, Ruyin Pakbaz, Faramarz Pilaram, Sadegh Tabrizi, Mohammad-Reza Jodat, Ghobad Shiva, Massoud Arabshahi, Sirus Malek, Farshid Mesghali, Parviz Mahallati, Morteza Momayez, and Hadi Hezareiy.