Another wonderful Iranian realist artist is Iman Maleki.

Iman Maleki was born in 1976 in Tehran, and has been interested in painting since childhood. At the age of 15, he began to study art with Morteza Katouzian (considered the best realist painter of Iran).
In 1995, Maleki entered the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran ("University of Arts"), and graduated four years later.

In 2001 he opened the Ara Gallery and began teaching students painting based on traditional and classical principles of drawing.

The last photo shows the painting "Immigrant". So much pain in one picture.

Iran is a completely unknown world. He is so bright and multifaceted. How many of you would have thought that the works of Iranian artists, our contemporaries, could be so good?
I hope I didn’t bore you with painting today.