Analysis of Color and Content in the works of Kamal ud-Din Behzad and David Hockney

Kamal ud-Din Behzad was the most excellent and skilled Iranian painter who radically changed Iranian painting. In Behzad’s paintings, emotion and reason are delicately and artistically balanced so that they never go out of the general aesthetic framework of Iranian painting. David Hockney is also one of the most important painters of the 20th century. He is considered one of the greatest artists of contemporary English origin, who started creating oriental art with a view influenced by oriental painting. He says about the art of the East that we Westerners have limited the space to one point of view and look at it through an open door, while the Orientals have entered the unlimited space into their art. In this research, by using comparative studies of the works of these two artists, I seek to analyze and examine the color and content as well as the points of commonality and difference in the works of these two artists. This research shows that Hockney’s favorite color is blue, and he drew two people in most of his paintings. The subjects of Hockney’s works have a domestic and private aspect, but the issues of Behzad’s works have a social and conceptual aspect. In Hockney’s works, it is as if everything is still and soulless and as if inner peace is hidden in the images of faces. In Behzad’s works, everything is alive, moving, and dynamic, and all this dynamism and movement in Behzad’s works are derived from his Islamic worldview. Behzad’s works are derived from Iranian-Islamic art and combine Iranian painting and his Islamic thoughts. Among the similarities between the works of these two artists, we can mention the lack of dimensions in Iranian painting and the presence of multi-dimensional space in Behzad’s works, the use of pure color surfaces, the creation of separate color plans, and the importance of the symbolic aspect of color, the design of color rhythm and the creation of the illusion of distances by using It can be mentioned from the color.