YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 2, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The exhibition that opened on February 1 at Armenian Folk Art Museum is dedicated to the 27th anniversary of victory of Iranian Islamic revolution. More than 60 works by Persian painter Jalil Jokari and Iranian Armenian photographer Shake Petrosian are presented at the exhibition. Jalil Jokari presented miniatures made by exclusively natural points, engraved silver jugs and Shake Petrosian photographs taken at the Ashura ceremony in the Iranian city of Yazd. As Reza Atoufi, Adviser on Issues of Culture at IRI Embassy in RA, mentioned at the opening of the exhibition, this year the anniversary of Islamic revolution's victory coincided with the month of Moharam and ceremony of Ashura. According to him, the movement of Ashura and Hoseyn's rising had a great impact on the Iran development. According to R.Atoufi, the works presented at the exhibition will enable the Armenian art-lovers to get acquainted with the Persian culture. According to him, it's owing to this culture that the Armenian and Persian peoples have survived for centuries and have overcome many ordeals. Gagik Gyurjian, RA Deputy Minister of Culture and Youth Affairs, emphasized that as far back as in the 4-3rd millenniums B.C. Iran had a developed culture and was one of the ancient centers of world civilization and culture. According to him, Iran was also a favorable place for creation of a whole school of Armenian arts and we shouldn't forget that great miniaturist Hakob Jughayetsi created in Iran and Hakob Hovnatan was a court painter of Tehran in the 19th century, the latter bore the title of "Naghsh Bashi."

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