Aesthetic Intuition and Intuitive Aesthetic in Sohrab Sepehri's Painting and Poetry

Beauty and its evidences have always been a controversial issue among the scholars throughout the history of philosophy, Psychology, literature, mysticism, etc. Mysticism is evident in Sohrab Sepehri's viewpoint of beauty perception and understanding abstract phenomena which eventually leads him to a type of mystical approach and roots in his belief of direct experience through different contexts such as language, paradox and dream. This attitude directs him to a type of symbolic language. His journey to discover the aesthetics of life results in a personal view of death, sorrow and other seemingly unwanted phenomena to see them as beautiful aspects of life. This paper tries to depict Sohrab’s display of beauty in his poetry and painting revealing its connection with his artistic intuition of art and personal mysticism.