Word: riza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accumulating. The mullah Bebamani spouted influential warnings of a communist subversion and Teymur Bakhtiar, chief of the garrison in Kermanshah, indicated he was ready to move on Tehran in aid of the Shah. Ordinary people were also influenced against Mossadeq by the Tudeh (Communist) Party's desecration of Shah Riza's tomb on August...
...reddest of red carpets that the French rolled out last week for a state visit by Iran's Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi and his Empress Farah. The entire French Cabinet lined up at Orly Airport to welcome the Shah. President Valery Giscard d'Estaing skipped the NATO summit in Brussels to welcome the Iranian leader, who was feted at Versailles' Hall of Mirrors with fireworks and dances. At week's end the wooing appeared well worth the effort: Iran agreed to purchase $5 billion in industrial equipment and technology from France in the next decade...
...best and most genuine pieces in the show are the small drawings, perhaps because they don't try to serve any purpose beyond pleasing the eye. The taut elegance of Sadiqi Bek's Lion Tamer and the grace of Riza's A Young Man in a Blue Cloak prove that these two were artists of the first rank. And the drawings of Mu'in Musavvir, Riza's most gifted student, are delightful. His Squatting Camel is not to be missed...
Taken chronologically, the drawings could be read as a footnote to the history of the decay of the Safavi dynasty. Riza joined the royal atelier soon after Shah Abbas ascended the throne. His earliest drawings are delicate, strongly traditional, and faintly wistful, obviously the work of a young prodigy. Later, toward the end of Shah Abbas's reign, his touch coarsens and he no longer draws graceful, languid young men. Instead, he caricatures raunchy, dope-smoking soldiers like Nashmi the Archer--an archetype of social decay. Riza's protege, Mu'in Musavvir, did original work in the traditional Persian style...