Azadeh Razaghdoost, a contemporary painter, was born in Tehran. Razaghdoost's expressive paintings are suspended between representation and abstraction, between lyrical and violent expression, and red is the signature color of most of her paintings.
She started her art education at the Tehran Academy of Fine Arts and received a painting diploma in 1997. Then she went to Tehran University of Art and graduated in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in painting. She exhibited her artworks for the first time in 2000 in Tehran's Fereshteh Gallery and a group of other artists. Her first solo exhibition was held two years later with the title "Figurative in Disguise" at Atbin Gallery in Tehran. Razaghdoost's first international appearance was at the Dubai Art Fair in 2008. In the same year, her works appeared in a group exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. These two exhibitions were a prelude to her international presence in numerous exhibitions in different countries of the world. In the following years, Razaghdoost exhibited his works as a group and individually in art centers in countries such as the United States, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, etc.
In naming her work courses, she often uses literary references to the poems of world-famous poets such as Charles Baudelaire and William Blake. For example, one of the artist's late paintings is called "In the Rose Storm," which is taken from the title of the poetry collection of the German poet Ingeborg Bachmann. The red color in her paintings is associated with blood. Her artworks, for example, the collection of "Letters," are similar to wounds, through which the veins and spots of red color jump out and spread throughout the canvas. This color has symbolic weight in her works. Depending on the topic, each red sign can become a symbol of love, wound, death, anger, etc. For example, we can mention her collection of paintings titled "Sick Rose." This collection has glimpses of Razaghdoost's movement toward form, and the red spots and surfaces take on a petal-like shape.
In Razaghdoost's later works, such as "Shadows of Eden," this form becomes more explicit. Plants and trees are the motifs of this group of her works. Although in these paintings, the leaves or branches and trunks of trees are still drawn abstractly, She uses spiritual colors to paint plants in a shadowy pink on the panel's surface.