Marcos Grigorian
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Marcos Grigorian (in Persian: مارکو گريگوريان)(Born 1925) is a notable Iranian artist and a pioneer of Iranian modern art.
Marcos was born to an Iranian Armenian family. After finishing pre-university education in Iran, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. In 1954, Marcos Grigorian returned to Iran from Rome, opened the Galerie Esthétique, an important commercial gallery in Tehran. In 1958, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, he organized the first Tehran Biennial. Grigorian was also an influential teacher at the Fine Arts Academy, where he disseminated his enthusiasm for local popular culture, including coffee-house paintings, a type of folk art named after the locations in which they were often displayed.[1]
Grigorian left Iran when he was 52 years old. He lived for a short time in the United States before he migrated to Armenia.
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