9th Shiraz-Persepolis Festival of Arts Poster

This is a poster for the 9th Shiraz-Persepolis Festival of Arts in 1975, designed by Iranian graphic designer Morteza Momayez. The Shiraz-Persepolis Festival of Arts was an International festival held in Iran every summer around the cities Shiraz and Persepolis for eleven years (ending with the Iranian revolution), celebrating traditional and avant-garde music, theatre, performance, and film from both Eastern and Western artists.

Momayez did work as a graphic artist, illustrator, contemporary painter, and professor, and founded graphic arts at Iranian universities — he became known as the “Father of Iranian Graphic Arts”. The organic, flowery shapes and detailed linework in the poster is reminiscent of the art nouveau style, while also maintaining an Iranian identity by including Iranian architecture and Arabic script.

Information sources: https://asiasociety.org/files/uploads/126files/Festival%20of%20Arts%2C%20Shiraz-Persepolis%201967-77.pdf

https://darz.art/en/artists/morteza-momayez

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/art-diary/a-utopian-stage-festival-of-arts-shiraz-persepolis/?map=active