Examining Portraiture in Contemporary Iranian Painting Through the Lens of Shirer West’s Perspective

One of the oldest forms of art is portrait painting, which can be regarded as the beginning of the first cave paintings. Many different styles have been introduced into this type of art over the years. From the beginning of the 15th century, there were great changes in all cultural fields, especially in Western art, man was re-incarnated in Western painting with a new vision that was proposed as humanism in this historical period, portrait painting is also a part of It was considered visual arts that narrated and showed the face of people during the years of evolution of human culture. Portrait painting is one of the types of painting whose purpose is the visual representation of the subject, portrait painting in ancient times was very similar to today’s family photos and in a way, the general history of an individual’s life not only to the one who knows that history, but to many others. Displays other people. Until today, portraiture has kept some of its basic features and many of its functions have changed, however, until the end of the 20th century, portraiture was a Western phenomenon and reflected personal characteristics, so that in many other cultures This has been an unusual feature. With the globalization of Western culture, portraiture is no longer limited to the Western world, and with the geographical expansion of this culture, portraiture has changed different fields; In such a way that today portraits are created in various media and have different purposes. The descriptive-analytical method was used to complete this research, which is based on library studies and observations of the works. What is the definition of a portrait? This is the research question. What are the functions of the portrait? What are the power and position of the portrait? Which are discussed in this research.