Ali Golestaneh is a contemporary Iranian painter who often painted landscapes. Golestaneh started learning painting as a teenager from Asghar Petgar. He went to Jam Gholhak High School for elementary education, where he studied along Aydin Aghdashloo and Abbas Kiarostami. He graduated in 1959 and entered the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran to continue his education in painting, but he dropped out of school. Golestaneh lived in England from 1969 to 1977 and studied at the London Printing School affiliated with the University of London and he worked as a designer and painter for the Royal Car Club of England at the same time. He held his first exhibition at the Tehran City Gallery in 1976 and then left the country again to Spain, holding two exhibitions in Madrid and another in Santa Eulalia, Ibiza. He also held several solo exhibitions in Iranian galleries. Golestaneh's first appearance in auctions dates back to December 2016 at the sixth Tehran Auction

Landscapes and daily life, and in fact whatever has been neglected in modern life, were the main subjects of Ali Golestaneh's paintings. Natural landscapes were inseparable in Golestaneh’s viewpoint and this vision was well understood in his watercolor paintings. During the war, he went to Yazd and Depicted nature and the climatic spaces of that region. It goes without saying that Golestaneh was able to establish a different position in Iran’s visual art area by relying on different techniques and challenging the concept of style in his artworks.

Golestaneh said of his interest in painting: "I usually draw these shapes inspired by nature, but what is drawn has nothing to do with nature itself, in other words, it has no so-called objective relation to nature. I try to create something as delicate as nature. "It does not matter if I draw this tree, but I want it to be something that is as delicate and beautiful as the living tree itself."