Keikhosro Khoroush


Keikhosro Khoroush is an Iranian painter and calligrapher. He graduated at the first rank in the College of Art, University of Tehran. He has been one of the most realistic Iranian painters and one of the great masters in Persian calligraphy ''' since 1980. He was awarded the title of the everlasting people in 2005.

Biography

Khoroush was born in April 1941 in Tehran, Iran.
He studied in the field of mathematics at high-school but he liked arts and preferred studying painting in the university. So, he took and passed the entrance examination of the University of Tehran and earned first rank in 1961, then graduated with the same rank in 1966. He then went to U.K. and France on scholarships and visited art galleries and museums and researched on the realism painting there.
He started learning painting under the supervision of Master Ali Mohammad Heydarian. Khoroush became one of Heydarian's most important students. who was a founder and first professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts in the University of Tehran and was the most important student of Kamal-ol-Molk.
At the same time, he enrolled at the Iran Calligraphers Association. He got started learning Persian calligraphy under the supervision of Great Master Hossein Mirkhani and was the first person to get Momtaz Grade of the Association of Calligraphers in Iran.
In 1973, he got a master's degree and was successful to taking great master degree of Iranian Calligraphy Association in 1977. Finally, he became one of the two great masters in Persian calligraphy since this time and has calligraphied up to 40 books since the 1960s. Based on statistics, his Divan-e-Hafez book has been the important calligraphied book in Iran.
Over more than 1000 of his paintings and several art works of his calligraphy, are available in Iran and abroad of Iran and sold in auctions like Tehran auction.

Works

He is a contemporary artist and has been artistically active in the past 60 years, Almost all his paintings are based on oil and watercolor.

Painting

In his paintings, Keikhsoro Khoroush draws Iranian landscapes and portraits of people.

Calligraphy

He is interested in creating a form of Persian calligraphy called chalipa, but there are many Persian calligraphy art works in other forms.

Books

In his books, he was interested in calligraphy, the books of poets or important cultural persons, in fact, every page of his books are about Persian calligraphy ''' artworks.

Awards