Kazem Ordoobadi is one of the last figures among the painters allied with the intellectual founded in Iran by Mohammad Ghaffari, better known as Kamal-ol-Molk, one of Iran’s most celebrated master-painters. Kamal-ol-Molk stayed in France and Italy in the last years of the nineteenth century to examination the works of Europe’s greatest artists. Kamal-ol-Molk style, inspired by his stay in Europe, is based on Realism and Naturalism. He founded the School of Fine Arts (Mostazrafe) in 1908 where European style of painting was taught together later Iran’s usual painting. This was a breakthrough in the Iranian painting that for centuries was dominated mainly by miniatures used in illustration and titivation of books.
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