In past recent years, Outsider artists have been receiving more attention in Iran; But about western Outsider artists, this attention goes back many years. This has caused art fairs and a separate section in some auction houses to be dedicated to these artists in the world. In this note, Marzieh Eftekhari takes a look at these events and provides a brief review of the outsider art m...

Coffee-house painting and Reverse Glass painting are one of Iran's folkloric and classical arts, which reached the peak of their popularity among the common strata of society during the Qajar era. Museums such as Negarestan Museum Garden, Reza Abbasi Museum, and the Museum of Reverse Glass Painting, house remarkable works of these arts. Although limited, Coffee-house painting and Re...

Neo-calligraphic style entered the modern Iranian art movement in 1964 with the efforts of the pioneers of the Saqakhaneh movement, namely Hossein Zenderoodi, Parviz Tanavoli and Faramarz Pilaram. From this movement, later, a trend called Calligraphy-Painting branched out, which, to some extent, adhered to the rules and style of traditional calligraphy. Since the the 2000s, with the...