A New Perspective on Tehran School Painting: Khayyam and His Influence on the Formation of Works

This research, by examining some paintings of the Tehran school in the contemporary period on the one hand, and reading the thoughts and philosophical views of the poet and mathematician Khayam Neishabouri of the 5th and 6th centuries A.H. on the other hand, aims to understand why and how To examine and research the placement of this poet’s poems and quatrains for the first time by painters of the Tehran school in the contemporary period. The hypothesis of the research in this article is that the artists of the Tehran school adhered to the traditional values and painting of Iran’s past during the modernism era in order to preserve their Iranian and Aryan roots as much as possible by linking to the past. The researched works include 9 paintings by contemporary painters, which belong to the Cultural Institute of Mustazafan Foundation Museums. Based on this, the method of collecting documentary and field information was done and the analysis of the data was also done based on the research, and finally, the conclusion was reached that the artists of the Tehran school, by reviving the traditional style and Iranian painting, returned to the past artistic methods. They stressed against the art of modernism, and by addressing Khayyam’s works and poems, for the first time, they sought to return to their Aryan roots and their past before the era of modernity and modernism.