Zarrinkhat (born 1894) lived over 85 years. He began in the art of calligraphy when he was 10 and took lessons from master calligrapher Mirza Taher Kateb Homayun. Most of the lithographs in those years were inscribed by Zarrinkhat.
The ceremony took place in the presence of several of his students, including Akbar Saatchi, Jahangir Nezamololama, and Hamidreza Qlichkhani, and at the location where an exhibition of the master’s calligraphic works was underway, the Persian service of ISNA reported on Wednesday.
“You can hardly find a calligrapher who can do both calligraphy well and teach the styles of calligraphy well, but Zarrinkhat was indeed capable of both,” Saatchi said.
“Inscription on doorplates across the city, the main entrances to the ministries, as well as school textbooks are among the master’s calligraphy artworks,” he added.
Zarrinkhat used to say, “My inscription is found in the pocket of every Iranian individual,” referring to his inscription on Iranian banknotes.
His other student Nezamololama regarded Zarrinkhat as the master capable of special skills in the different styles of calligraphy and said, “The huge number of his calligraphy works surprises everyone that one person could have produced so many works.”
Qlichkhani called his master a creative artist and a pioneer in the different styles of calligraphy. The ceremony was followed by a visit to the exhibition of calligraphic works in the gallery.
Zarrinkhat was famous for his nastaliq style of calligraphy and spent a lifetime of efforts on the inscription of the Holy Quran.
The exhibit will be running until August 22 at the gallery located at No.13 Jamali St., off Vafamanesh Ave., in Heravi Square.
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