Javad Hamidi (1918 – 2002) was an Iranian

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painter, poet, and educator. He was a pioneer in modern art in Iran.

Biography

Javad Hamidi was born in 1918 in

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. Hamidi studied in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tehran University (now

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), and graduated in 1946; and at

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. His classmate was Shokouh Riazi, who studied alongside him in both Tehran and in Paris. He continued his studies under French painter

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. 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. Hamidi taught painting in

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for almost 40 years, as well as taught at Al-Zahra, Azad and Tarbiat-Modares Universities. He was killed by a speeding motorcyclist in

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in 2002.

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1918 births 2002 deaths People from Hamadan University of Tehran alumni Pedestrian road incident deaths Academic staff of the University of Tehran Academic staff of Tarbiat Modares University 20th-century Iranian painters Road incident deaths in Iran École des Beaux-Arts alumni {{Iran-painter-stub