287 handicrafts of Isfahan province UNESCO registered
Mohammad Ali Ansari in the closing ceremony of the National Ayat Handicrafts Festival, congratulating the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution, said: We offer our condolences to the families of the Revolutionary Guards and their families, especially the martyrs of Isfahan.
Director General of Islamic Culture and Guidance of Isfahan Province continued: This festival can be defined in the form of three words, one is the word art, this God-given blessing that God has placed in the existence of all human beings with strength and weakness, and one is the discussion of art and human power. The Holy Qur’an is the miracle of the Prophet to make tools and what is needed for life, and when the three words are put together, they create a world of knowledge.
He added: God is the first artist and the art of God is the creation of the universe and he has placed a part of his art in the existence of Ashraf creatures, that is, man. All human life is art and among the public art that everyone enjoys, God has a blessing in existence. Some artists put.
Ansari said: Art is a kindness that has been given to us human beings by God, and like any blessing, we can be thankful or ungrateful. Thanksgiving for this blessing means using it correctly, that is, using it to serve humanity. If an artist uses his artistic taste to serve humanity, he is thankful.
The Director General of Islamic Culture and Guidance stated: If, God forbid, this blessing is used in the service of non-humanity, then ingratitude is an art. Among all the disciplines of art, handicrafts or handicrafts.
He continued: The defined root of this valuable art dates back to the Neolithic history of mankind, 8,000 years ago. At that time, human beings gave special shapes to stone and wood to meet their needs, and this stone became the foundation for this valuable art. The field of handicrafts has registered 600 arts, of which 450 handicrafts belong to Iran.
Ansari continued: out of 450 UNESCO registered handicrafts of Iran, about 287 arts belong to Isfahan. Handicrafts have a number of special features that have made this section of art find a high status and can help human life.
Director General of Islamic Culture and Guidance of Isfahan said: One of the important features of handicrafts is that the identity of a society and the value and grandeur of the history of a nation that more than 1000 years have passed since the manufacture of stone dishes and then wood that Iran has these industries. It has the same identity that Iran, as one of the largest countries, has this art.
He added: Another feature of this field is that it is mostly made with the art of human hands, and the border between handicrafts and handicrafts is that they are made by machines and these are made by artists. The third feature is that they can be used in life.
Ansari pointed out that when art is intertwined with the religious thinking of a nation, its value rises, he said: When we use wood in the service of the Qur’an, when we use carpet and weaving industry in the service of religious promotion, then the value of this work becomes infinite. Holding a festival of handicrafts of verses, both from a historical, religious and human point of view, is a valuable work when it is held in Isfahan.
The Director General of Islamic Culture and Guidance of Isfahan stated: We hope that such festivals will have good effects on future activities and cause more attention to handicrafts, and if we look at it from an economic point of view, it is one of the fields that can help Iran’s economy. Today, when we are in economic difficulties, we can pay attention to art both to create a culture in the field of art and to be able to help in economic development.
