The paper studies the impact of various stylistic trends of the European innovative art of the XX century, 1920s-1980s in particular, on visual arts of Iran. The objective of the study is a) to examine the activity of masters Hossein Behzad, Andre Sevryugin and Hasanali Vaziri, who taught at the School of Painting and Sculpture, founded on the initiative of Kyamal al Molq in Tehran; b) to assess the contribution to Iranian visual arts of the pioneers of innovative movement in Iran Kalal Ziapuri, Ahmad Esfandiari, Markos Grigoryan and Sohrab Sepehri, as well as the pioneers of the Saggahane movement Hossein Zenderudi and Parviz Tanavoli.
To conduct the investigation, the widely applied in art criticism descriptive, graphical and analytic-comparative methods were employed.
As a result of the analysis, it has been established that the European influence on the art of Iranian artists is predominantly to be found in the outward appearance and technical execution. While adhering in their creation to this or that trend of European modernism, such as impressionism, post-impressionism, cubism, abstractionism and surrealism, they, however, in order to preserve their cultural identity, draw upon the centuries-old national traditions.
Latin as a cultural Identity: a central European Case.
