Nature in the Murals on Vali-E-Asr Street in Tehran Influenced by the Identity of the Environment or a Purely Decorative Attitude? Evaluating the Relationships Between the Presence and Position of Nature with the Identity of the Environment in the Murals’ Context

Document Type : Viewpoint/ Review

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1 Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Iran.

2 M.A. in Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The first trace of the changed living structures caused by the evolution of the new world in the city has emerged in the separation between humans and the surrounding environment. Subsequently, art has become responsible for filling a part of this gap, especially in improving the quality of urban life regarding the connection between the dualities. In this case, murals are the most efficient urban art that deals with the public audience and is formed as an artwork in the city within the interaction between painting context conditions, the subjectivity and perception of the artist, and the audience’s understanding. Among the infinitely diverse topics of the motifs depending on the city walls, as a landscape foundation emphasizing the mentality of the audience community and influencing the thought and collective unconscious of the audiences, “nature” has been one of the major role players in the topic of murals. However, the position of nature and its relationship with the mentality and demands of citizens have not been explained accurately. Studies imply that after the decorative approach was elaborated given mural art practitioners, nature and its bases in the urban murals of Tehran, particularly in Vali-E-Asr Street, have been based on the decorative approach principles used in the exhibition of works. In this regard, nature has been shaped as an indicator of naturalistic lived experience in the minds of citizens beyond this interaction with the visual environment and being inspired by the context’s landscape identity. 

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MANZAR, the Scientific Journal of landscape
Volume 16, Issue 66
April 2024
Pages 64-69

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