Jalil Ziapour
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| Born | April 25, 1920 Bandar-e Anzali, Iran |
| Died | December 21, 1999 (aged 79) Tehran, Iran |
| Resting place | Artists section of Behesht-e Zahra |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Occupation | Painter, academic member, researcher, writer |
Jalil Ziapour (Persian: جلیل ضیاءپور; also Romanized as Jalīl Z̤iyāʼpūr) was an Iranian painter, academic member, Researcher and writer mentioned as "the father of modern Iranian painting". Besides having been a leading painter and the head of the futuristic movement, he has had many research activities in the fields of anthropology, study and familiarization with language, public culture, clothing and decorative designs of different regions of Iran, and their results are currently used in universities as reference books. During his cultural and artistic activity, Ziapour has performed giving more than 85 lectures, presenting more than 70 cultural and artistic articles, writing more than 28 books in the fields of Iranian clothing, art and history and also creating about 40 paintings and two statues. He was one of the founders of the artistic Fighting Cock Society.
Jalil Ziapour was born in Bandar-e Anzali on 1920. His childhood hobbies were forming statues from Anzali marshes mud and listening to music. He began his art studies since youth. After finishing primary education, he went to Tehran in 1938 and entered the Music School, which was directed by Mr. Minbashian then, for composing and passed the entrance tests; but at that time, the foreign professors of the school returned to their home countries and he was not able to follow his agenda. Therefore, he started studying and familiarizing with traditional arts in the School of Fine Arts. In 1941, he entered the Beautiful Arts School. The first period of the school (1941–1945) announced three graduates in painting and Ziapour received the first place and the first class cultural medal from the school and headed to France by the scholarship presented by that country's government and continued studying in École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in visual arts field.
In 1948, after his first return to Iran, the academy painters including Javad Hamidi, Hossein Kazemi,... assembled and the remarkable activity of contemporary painting in Iran was established. In 1949, Ziapour established the artistic board "Fighting Cock", which was a leading committee in the field of modern arts in literature, theater, music and painting, and started printing a magazine with the same name with his proponents and presented his theory about visual arts (painting) called "Refute of the Theories of Past and Contemporary Ideologies -from Primitive to Surrealism". During his artistic activity as a painter, he was always considered as the leader of futurism and the developer of modern art and is the initiator of artistic criticism in Iran. Ziapour contended in four fronts: the followers of past methods, the degenerate modernists who had returned from abroad, the mass traditionalists, the followers of the old European method. His effort was to preserve the Iranian identity by leaning on the capacity of native culture, but speak by a global tongue and present it and eventually bring honor to his Iranian culture.
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