Fifth Int’l Art Festival of Resistance opens

The International Art Festival of Resistance has kicked off in Tehran on Tuesday, January 25, 2019.

The final stage of the fifth edition of the event was inaugurated yesterday, displaying many received artworks.

The International Art Festival of Resistance hosts and awards works in 10 different categories including paintings, posters, sculptures, cartoons and caricatures that focus on the resistance movement.

The festival contains the artworks of contemporary artists on resistance.

The main goal of the event is to disseminate the culture of resistance and values of Islamic Revolution and Holly Defense and focus on culture of persistence in visual arts by:

- Creating, presenting and displaying the last visual artworks and achievements of contemporary artists of Iran and the world on Resistance.

- Evaluating, criticizing and analyzing the different aspects in Art of Resistance.

- Focusing on culture of resistance and persistence in contemporary awakening arts.

- Contriving for cultural interactions among creative artists on culture and art of resistance in Iran and other countries particularly those from Islamic world.

- Contriving for establishment of an international center on Art of Resistance.

The event will go on until February 14, 2019.

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