A cursory glance at the history of art reveals that social, political and economic conditions have always played a major role in the emergence of new artistic currents and styles. As an example Flight by Morteza Katouzian is showing the marginalized people who have no freedom as result of political changes. In Iran, the social and political developments of the 1940s radically altered the evolution of this country's plastic arts and entirely altering its natural path. History The modern art movement in Iran had its genesis in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This was the period after the death of famous Persian painter, Kamal-ol-molk (1852–1940) and thus symbolically the end of a rigid adherence to academic painting. The College of Fine Arts at Tehran University (now University of Tehran) served as an important place for students interested in modern art. The earliest College of Fine Arts students graduated in 1946, this group included Javad Hamidi, Shokouh Riazi, Jalil Ziapour, and Ahmad Esfandiari; all of which went on to continue their painting studies in Paris. The 1949 opening of the Apadana gallery in Tehran by Mahmoud Javadipour and other colleagues, and the emergence of artists like Marcos Grigorian in the 1950s, signaled a commitment to the creation of a form of modern art grounded in Iran. Grigorian found influence for his art in popular Iranian culture, specifically a coffee-house storyteller culture and the visual language of dry earth and mud. One of Grigorian's students at the College of Fine Arts at Tehran University (now University of Tehran) was Hossein Zenderoudi, Zenderoudi was interested in the forms and aesthetics of objects made for Shi'a Islam worship. The scholar Karim Emami likened his art to the kind of objects found in saqqakhanas, coining term, the "Saqqakhaneh school". Surrealism in Iran Aminollah Rezaei was the first to bring surrealist painting to Iran. For this reason, some consider him the father of surrealist painting in Iran. He had a special style in this school. Rezai's paintings range from surrealist and symbolic works to so-called black and thoughtful humorous cartoons. The political theme, and the anatomical form of a precise and elaborate species, the combination of human and animal limbs or the deformation of the body can be seen in his paintings. He was ruled but did not accept it. He also won an honorary diploma in handicrafts from Bangalore, India, from the Asian Cultural