Avant-garde artist Masud Arabshahi dies at 84
TEHRAN – Masud Arabshahi, one of the pioneers of Iranian conceptual art, died of heart failure at a Tehran hospital on Wednesday. He was 84, his wife Giti has announced. Arabshahi was born in Tehran in September 1935. He studied design and painting when he was a teenager and at the same time he was interested in traditional crafts, arts and ancient Persian heritage. The fascination, which always stayed with him, led him to the widespread exploration of patterns and codes, and ancient artifacts from the ancient history of Iran and his ...
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