Jalil Ziapour

Jalil Ziapour (Persian: جلیل ضیاءپور, romanized: Jalīl Z̤iyāʼpūr; 1920–1999) was an Iranian painter, academician, researcher, and writer. He is considered to be 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 Fighting Cock Society, an arts association.