TEHRAN-Iranian veteran illustrator and painter Hadi Jamali, who was recently hospitalized due to an illness, passed away on Tuesday night at the age of 74.

A contemporary artist, Jamali was born in 1950 in Shiraz, Fars Province. His work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $7,600 to $71,000, depending on the size and medium of the artwork, Mehr reported.

Jamali is known for the expressive and abstract paintings he created after the 1990s. He began his artistic studies in painting at the Tehran Academy of Fine Arts. Then in 1971 he was admitted to the Faculty of Decorative Arts and continued his studies in interior design.

After a long break, he resumed his university studies and in 1996, and graduated with a master's degree in industrial design from the Faculty of Art and Architecture of the Islamic Azad University. He then became a member of the faculty of this university.

In addition to painting, he also taught architecture and authored several books on art education for high school students. Jamali had several exhibitions in Iran and abroad and won the third International Painting Biennial of the Islamic World in 2004.

In 2000, Jamali joined the +30 group, including artists with different artistic tendencies and styles, and held several exhibitions in Iran, Japan, Italy, France, and Armenia. The group tried to use new media to communicate with the audience.

Jamali also worked in the field of children's book illustration. At the beginning of his painting career, he used calligraphy and elements of the tradition of writing and page layout to achieve abstract integrity. But in later periods these elements gave way to a variation of colored squares and rectangles.

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