نگاهي به نقاشي قاجار

A Look at Qajar Painting

You can find the roots of Qajar painting in Iranian arts from old times. With different cultural and political movements that occurred in Iran after Safavid era; the effects of western art appeared in Iranian painting especially in the Qajar era. You can find traces of this effect on verism paintings in this era. In the beginning this verism was in opposite direction to the abstract painting, But after passing of time artists found the solution by compiling symbolism in painting and verism of western arts together . This compilation itself had an affect on the Iranian painting too. Qajar era was the peak of its power with regards to the combining of this art and regarding its contents is a point taken in to consideration in this research.