Background
Javad Hamidi was born in Hamadan, Iran in 1918.
Javad Hamidi was born in Hamadan, Iran in 1918.
Javad studied at the Tehran University's faculty of Fine Arts and L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris.
Javad taught painting in Tehran University for 40 years, promoting modernism, also at Al-Zahra, Azad and Tarbiat-Modares Universities. He was combining landscape painting and principles of modern painting to create a modern work inspired by achievements in landscape painting. It represented the pastoral style prevailing in the literature and Romantic painting of the 19th century. Indeed, depiction of daily life of the underprivileged, as in this work, was the achievement of an array of Iranian artists, beginning with Behzad during the Safavid period.
Similar to other modern artists, Hamidi was concerned about the choice of color, mix of colors on canvas, and composition of painting. Composition and graphic balance in the work indicated the artist’s academic approach to art. He was killed by a speeding motorcycle in Tehran in 2002
