Javad Hamidi is one of the pioneers of modern Iranian art. He was born in Hamedan. Between 1940 and 1945, he studied painting under Ali Mohammad Heydarian and Mart Selsin Yves, a French painter, in the art school affiliated with Tehran University (School of Fine Arts). He taught in the same art school and went to France with a scholarship. He completed his master's degree in painting in Bozar and studied with Andre Lute. He returned to Iran in 1949 and continued teaching at the Faculty of Fine Arts. In the same year, he participated in a group exhibition at Apadana Gallery and participated in five Tehran Biennales. He won an award in the 5th Biennale. Later, he exhibited his works many times in Iran and abroad. In addition to the Faculty of Fine Arts at Al-Zahra University, he also taught at Tarbiat Modarres and Azad Eslami. Also, he was a continuous member of the Academy of Arts and was a member of the specialized committee of visual arts of the Academy of Arts. After half a century of teaching and artistic activity, he died in 2001 from a motorcycle accident on one of the streets of Tehran. In 2001, Barg Gallery organized a performance and commemoration titled "Memory of the Living Memory of Master Javad Hamidi."

Hamidi was one of the most prolific painters of his generation and tried different methods, from naturalism to absolute abstraction. Sometimes he painted still lifes and landscapes, and sometimes religious and allegorical themes. However, his paintings often had a harmony of form and color and strength of composition. He has justified the variety of his works as follows: "My sensibility today is different from yesterday and will be different from tomorrow as well. When I think about an idea, I look for the best implementation style. Another reason for this variety of structure and content is that I have been teaching at the university for many years. To teach different schools to my students, I have to try every method so that I can actually teach it to others. Not choosing a particular method is a method in itself.