Study of Myth Critique of Gilbert Durand by Looking at “Persian Garden Jewelry”

Surveying works of art with the use of mythological critique in Iran is either very unknown or by some famous methods such as Jung’s Archetypal Phenomenom, monomythic of Joseph Campbell, Archetype typological critique of Northrop Frye are limited. Other methods, such as myth critique, myth analysis, which are some of the applied methods in the analysis of the artwork, are still unknown in the country. A glance at the numerous kinds of the critiqual art research provided, various spectrum of works of visual and synthetic arts have been repeatedly examined by various methods of mythological critique, But the arts of jewelry, as applied arts, has not only been neglected from the field of critique, but in the field of mythological critique also have been neglected. The Persian Garden collection has been created by Bahram Dashtinejad and Toktam Fazel, a jeweler couple that always draws inspiration from the Iranian garden for their artworks. “Persian garden”, has been gathered by images and designs used in the Persian miniatures have more benefits through visual attraction. also pointed to the Persian motifs used in the collection and added, “designers of “Persian garden’s jewelry” have gained a precious treasure preserved in our Persian images and miniatures over the years. Any design they make opens the door to a new design some of which can become the purpose for a new exhibit. For example, the simorgh (the mystic Persian bird), the life tree, and the cypress bird are some of the clear concepts we used in the works, while the maps of Persian gardens and architectural designs of the structures are the hidden concepts which have been regarded in the backgrounds of the works. The compositions and ideas used in the works give a visitor a new feel for the jewelry. In this way, they have taken the hidden and obvious concepts of the Persian garden into consideration in the artworks. The present study was carried out using the descriptive-analytical and historical method using the myth- critique of Gilbert Durand. The aims of this study are to survey of Durand’s myth – critique method, and then have analyzed the "Persian garden’s Jewelry" as a case study by using this method. The present article is seeking to answer this question of what is the clandestine great central myth of Persian garden’s jewelery are referring to, which is directly related to the personal lives of the designers and which has led the authors to find the secrets concept are contained in these artifacts. In conclusion, attention to the general theme and motives as well as to the details of the descriptive article of the study, the Persian garden artifacts, led the authors to the conclusion that all the motifs and themes contained in the artifacts of each one is in dephth of relation to the central myth of the great "utopia". This archimythe is obviously related to the personal life of designers (Toktam & Bahram). In all pieces of jewelery we have seen vgreat impact of archimyth of Utopia.