Javad Hamidi
{{Short description|Iranian artist (1918–2002)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Javad Hamidi
| image = JavadHamidiParisExhibitionSmall.jpg
| caption = Hamidi's solo exhibition in Paris (1934)
| birth_date = 1918
| birth_place = Hamadan, Sublime State of Iran
| death_date = {{death year and age|2002|1918}}
| death_place = Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
| education = Beaux-Arts de Paris
| alma_mater = University of Tehran
| occupation = Visual artist, educator
| movement = Modernism
}}
Javad Hamidi (1918 – 2002){{Cite book |last=Daftari |first=Fereshteh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uliRyTByca4C |title=Iran Modern |last2=Diba |first2=Layla S. |date=2013 |publisher=Asia Society |isbn=978-0-300-19736-5 |pages=22 |language=en |author-link2=Layla S. Diba}} was an Iranian Modernist painter, poet, and educator. He was a pioneer of modern art in Iran.{{Cite book |last=Ayatollahi |first=Habibollah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Al0jpyRDGe8C |title=The Book of Iran: The History of Iranian Art |last2=Allāhī |first2=Ḥabīb Allāh Āyat |date=2003 |publisher=Alhoda UK |isbn=978-964-94491-4-2 |pages=309 |language=en}}
Biography
File:JavadHamidiUnibersityTehranLetter.jpg
Javad Hamidi was born in 1918 in Hamadan, Qajar Iran. Hamidi studied in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tehran University (now University of Tehran), and graduated in 1946; and at Beaux-Arts de Paris.{{Cite book |last=Rahnavard |first=Zahra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uHRQAAAAMAAJ |title=Contemporary Iraninan [i.e. Iranian] Art & the Islamic World |date=2002 |publisher=Al-Zahra University |pages=31 |language=en}} His classmate was Shokouh Riazi, who studied alongside him in both Tehran and in Paris.{{Cite book |last=Frigeri |first=Flavia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zeEaEAAAQBAJ |title=New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms |last2=Handberg |first2=Kristian |date=2021-03-24 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-64058-2 |language=en}} He continued his studies under French painter André Lhote.
Hamidi had been a founding member of the "Fighting Cock Society" (Khorūs-e Jangi), an artists group in Iran dedicated to the modern art movement and surrealism.{{Cite book |last=Dani |first=Ahmad Hasan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=68QuAQAAIAAJ |title=History of Civilizations of Central Asia |last2=Adle |first2=Chahryar |last3=Palat |first3=Madhavan K. |last4=Tabyshalieva |first4=Anara |date=1992 |publisher=Unesco |isbn=978-92-3-103985-0 |pages=762 |language=en}} Hamidi taught painting at Tehran University for almost 40 years, as well as at Al-Zahra, Azad and Tarbiat-Modares Universities.
In 2002, he was killed by a speeding motorcyclist in Tehran.
References
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External links
- [http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/32211/name/Javad-Hamidi Artfacts]
- [http://www.caroun.com/Painting/IranPainting/JavadHamidi/JavadHamidi.html Caroun]
- [http://www.ir-tmca.com/Exhibition/previous.htm Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts]
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Category:20th-century Iranian painters
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