The Influence of Paris School of Fine Arts on Architecture Education in Iran

Subject Areas : Urban Design

Hassan Rezaei ¹ , Iraj Etessam ² , Seyed Mustafa MokhtabadAmre’ei ³

1 - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Professor, Department of Architecture, College of Fine Arts, Tehran University,Tehran, Iran.
3 - Associate professor, Department of Dramatic Literature, Faculty of Art, TarbiatModarres University Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2013-07-15 Accepted : 2013-08-21 Published : 2013-12-01

Keywords: E’cole de Beaux-Arts, History of art education, Art higher education, Art school founders, Architecture education,

Abstract :

By its academic-aristocratic approach at the beginning, and the mere artistic vision of art afterwards, Beaux Artshad become the cottage of hopes and dreams for art-lovers and artists from Iran and all around the world. Accordingly, Iran, like manyother countries, has had consecutive associations and interactions with these schools, especially beaux-arts school, in qualitative andquantitative dimensions “Beaux-arts” school has had an extraordinary expanded character among classical educational schools inItaly and Germany and has played a positive and rooted role on art education world. What was going on continuously in E’cole formany years was nothing but a stone sinking in a pond, whose inevitable waves’ beams affected the whole pond. Art Education was thepond, Beaux Arts the stone. E’cole de Beaux-Arts set up the starting point of many artistic, educational and political events in thedomain of art education. So, may we assume Beaux-Arts as the starting point and the godfather of most of Iranian art educationsystems? Examining this subject in the context of art education history can be done through various methods. Historical periods,geopolitical entities, nationalism, international network of effects, and subjects orthemes each can have a framework or compositionfor forming the international history of art education. This article sets to express France’s E’cole de Beaux-Arts Educationhistorically, and tries to assess the deep qualitative and quantitative influences of the E’cole on Iran’s Art educational system,especially on architecture education, by gathering information through well-known artists and graduates of Beaux-Arts.