Demonstration of the world of example and the real world influenced by painting in contemporary Iranian painting (a case study of the works of Mahmoud Farshchian, Iran Droudy and Mehdi Hosseini)

Iranian painting totally represents the world of exemplification. This is mainly due to the desire of past painters to discover and display this heavenly world through imagination and themes such as stories and narratives. The display of the world of exemplification has not been limited to the past, and contemporary artists has also sought to exhibit this world in their works, and this has been an appropriate context for their creativity. The present study addresses the way to create the world of exemplification in the past and contemporary artworks and also the difference between its representations in the works of contemporary artists such as Farshchian, Darroudi and Hosseini in comparison with the past of Iranian painting.

The purpose of the current study is to examine and analyze how to display the world of exemplification in the past painting and to know how it emerges in the artworks of some contemporary Iranian painters.

The present findings are qualitative and are presented in a descriptive-analytical manner. The required information has been also collected through library resources.

The results of this study indicated that in the past, artists paid attention to the imagination to draw the world of exemplification and the contemporary artists have also benefited from this ability. The difference is that today every artist uses his own way of expression to demonstrate the power of imagination, while in the past, artists usually followed a certain style. For example, Farshchian by eliminating the reality and paying attention to the stories and narratives, Darroudi by disrupting the reality and imagination and creating unknown spaces, and finally Hosseini by displaying the reality but in the way that the artist imagines, have illustrated their powers of imagination.