Farhad Moshiri is often known for his "jar paintings." This painter and arranger artist has attracted the attention of domestic and foreign art markets due to his unique artistic style.
Farhad Moshiri was born in Shiraz and became interested in art and cinema as a teenager. This interest continued until his youth, and Moshiri gradually turned to drawing and painting. Having the skill of design with the encouragement of his father caused him to continue this path more seriously, and to complete his academic education, he went to the United States a year after the Revolution of 1957. After completing his elementary education, he studied at the California Institute of Art in 1981. He held his first exhibitions, a group video arrangement in 1987 called "The End," and then an arrangement at the Black Salad Gallery in 1988 in Los Angeles. After living in the United States for 12 years, he returned to Iran in 1989 and continued his artistic activity.
Moshiri's artworks soon attracted the attention of art critics and enthusiasts, but what made Moshiri stand out around the world was his artistic style, which was unique in its kind. In 2008, inspired by the tents and pottery of Shiraz, he created a collection of artworks that later became known as "jar paintings." Pakbaz writes about these jars: "Large images of different types of jars in different colors, on the surface of their body, words, and sentences - often comparative - are written in hanging script. The antiquity and cracking of the jars are reminiscent of the ancient tradition of pottery in Iran, and the writings refer to cultural manifestations in contemporary society. "Thus, by combining the past and present visual elements, Moshiri tries to show the relationship between tradition and modernity in Iran today."
Moshiri said in an interview about his career in 2012: "Actually, I am a painter; my job is all about simplification. Another funny thing happened to me once; one day, I was sitting in a taxi, and the driver started talking. He asked what my job was. I said I am an artist, a painter. He said: Well, how do you paint? I had no idea what to say. Asked Cubism? I said no, no, said surreal? I said no; he said Real! I said no. He said, "Oh, you are a concept." I said yes. Concept. I work on the concept, and I really work on the concept! Generalization is ridiculous, But I work on the concept. "It is not conceptual art; it is a concept."