Javad Hamidi (1918 – 2002) was an Iranian Modernist painter, poet, and educator. He was a pioneer in modern art in Iran. Biography 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. His classmate was Shokouh Riazi, who studied alongside him in both Tehran and in Paris. 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. Hamidi taught painting in Tehran University for almost 40 years, as well as taught at Al-Zahra, Azad and Tarbiat-Modares Universities. He was killed by a speeding motorcycle in Tehran in 2002. References External links Artfacts Caroun Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts 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