Scientific Journal of Pazhuhesh-e Honar

Civilization of Iran has affection in other nations and influenced by them in during the history, however it has kept its traditions. Nowadays that affection of art of west is more than past, artists must be commitment to the past their culture and art. Inspiring from traditional arts in contemporary Iranian painting is one of the ways to identity creation to the contemporary Iranian painting. Tendency to the handicraft in contemporary Iranian painting is the main purpose in this study. The aim of this research is attention to abilities of the handicraft in creation of identity to the contemporary Iranian painting, also it can help to durability of handicraft art and its relation with contemporary Iranian painting. Statistical community in this research is paints of eighth painting biennial. In this study hand craft has been introduced at first, and then presentation of every major of handicraft has been investigated in table. In this research recreation of handicraft in calligraphy, traditional designing, qalamkAr, , geometry of motifs, pottery, tiling, metal mesh, emboss, carpet, hand woven, carve, is seen in paints of eighth painting biennial. This study show that 12.16% of paints which has been choose to the contemporary Iranian painting, has used from handicraft. Also this research result that artists have the least attention to the، hand wove، carve and  emboss (2.2% in every major) in inspiring of handicraft and most tendency of artist in this identity creation is related to the traditional designing (33.33 %). This research can focus the attention of artists to the handicraft which have more ability to affection on contemporary Iranian paintings and help to creation identity of paints. The method of this study is descriptive- analytical and method of collection of information is using the library information.

In every civilization, we face art that is like a mirror reflecting religion, customs, etc. In the contemporary era, the school of thought that paid attention and re-recognized art in traditional civilization is the school of traditionalism, and the followers of this style of thinking are called traditionalists. In the traditionalist’s thought, art in the traditional civilization, in which nothing outside the scope of tradition that is in line with divine truth has the right to exist, has its own definitions, which are called “artistic”. On the other hand, in our civilizational background, we are faced with handicrafts, which is a production relying on hand power, and is not considered art in the common definition. In order for handicrafts to be placed in the field of art, we will face issues that can be pointed to such as: The creativity of this handicraft, its practicality, its integration with everyday life and other things in this art. Considering the meaning that traditionalists in modern and traditional society has towards art, it can be used to evaluate the artistic value of handicrafts. In this regard, we are faced with the question of what is the relationship between traditional art and handicrafts from the perspective of traditionalists. The research method in this article is descriptive and analytical, and the means of collecting information is based library research and data collection. In this article, by comparing the concept of traditional art and its characteristics with the concept of handicrafts and its related characteristics from the thought of traditionalists, we will reach the conclusion that handicrafts are in the framework of the concept of traditional art and the characteristics traditional arts is obvious in handicrafts and handicrafts is considered one of the most obvious manifestations of traditional art. In this way, the problems that occur in modern thinking on traditional and art vision can be solved.