Mahdieh Mehravar - M. Sc. student in department of Arts and architecture, Azad Islamic, University of Tehran

Indigenous myths and role in Iran s culture have made their sign appear and have evolved from ancient civilizations to Islamic culture and transformation. These designs have always been in the paintings of various schools of painting. With the advent of modernism in Iran, these motifs first lost their color, but after a while they reappeared in this research, we will try to examine the contemporary Iranian art in the last 100 years regarding the tendency to use the mythical and indigenous motifs of traditional Iranian art and art. In order to clarify the scope of the discussion, materials with a historical and descriptive approach and with library tools, in relation to the philosophy of beauty, the division of the role of the mythical and native forms and introducing them. In this regard, we first study the modern-ism in Iranian painting and the styles presented there, and then we introduce some of the most famous painters in this field, so that by analyzing the works, we can answer the research question, which used to identify the roots of the image of the motifs.

Myth ,Iranian modernist painting, visual roots