Iran Darroudi's Passing

This morning on October 29, Iran Darroudi, the renowned Iranian artist, passed away at 85. She caught the coronavirus disease in August and was hospitalized several times. Today, after three months of battling with the illness, she breathed her last breath.

Painter, author, art critic, and director, Iran Darroudi (b. 1936) studied painting at Beaux-Arts school, received a degree in art history from Ecole du Louvre in Paris, and majored in television directing at the RCA Institute in New York City. Her works of art have been exhibited in a myriad of solo and group shows both in Iran and worldwide. Additionally, she has published different articles and reviews in Iranian publications. During the 1970s, she produced and directed more than 80 television documentary films on Iranian as well as international artists. In 1997, she published her autobiography, "In the Distance Between Two Points...".

Darroudi had a distinctive view of existence and the universe. Her inner insight was reflected in her works. Her paintings' imaginative and bright atmosphere was similar to the images of dreams, oscillating between reality and imagination. As she said herself, "Ruins, frozen or flowing tears, flying or still flowers, flower deserts, frozen cities are signs of no particularity; they are rather mysterious indications which ought to provoke the mind and thought of the viewers, drawing them beyond concrete reality."

 Photographer: Ahmad Aali. Source: irandarroudi.com