Iman Maliki
Iman was born on 1976 in Tehran. He has been fascinated by the art of Painting since he was a child. At the age of 15, he started to learn painting under the mastery of his first and only teacher – Morteza Katouzian – who is the greatest realist painter of Iran. Meanwhile, he began to paint professionally. In 1999 he graduated in Graphic Design from the Art University of Tehran. Since 1998, he has participated in several exhibitions. In the year 2000, he got married and in the following year he established ARA Painting Studio and started to teach painting, considering classical and traditional values.
The most important exhibitions he has participated in, are: The Exhibition of Realist painters of Iran at Tehran Contemporary Museum of Art(1999) and The Group Exhibition of KARA Studio Painters at SABZ Gallery(1998) and at SA’AD ABAD Palace(2003). In 2005, Iman received the William Bouguereau award and the Chairman’s Choice award in the second international ARC salon competition.
Many many thanks for “Art lover” for providing all the information :+)
SARAH*NDIPITY 
Hala said,
April 24, 2007 at 8:50 am
my God!!! these are like photographs yet with an angelic touch …
BEAUTIFUL !
Ema said,
May 1, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Isn’t he just amazing !!! I looked for him on the net too but without any luck , just look at the details . his genius no doubt .
you have some painting that I didn’t see , thanks for that 🙂
Muaz said,
May 2, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Beautiful and captivating images. Anyone know where I can buy one of them, or have a link to a high resolution image of the paintings?
Ema said,
May 4, 2007 at 7:51 pm
i thought every one would like to know more about ayman maliki , here what if found
“Iman was born on 1976 in Tehran. He has been fascinated by the art of Painting since he was a child. At the age of 15, he started to learn painting under the mastery of his first and only teacher – Morteza Katouzian – who is the greatest realist painter of Iran. Meanwhile, he began to paint professionally. In 1999 he graduated in Graphic Design from the Art University of Tehran. Since 1998, he has participated in several exhibitions. In the year 2000, he got married and in the following year he established ARA Painting Studio and started to teach painting, considering classical and traditional values.
The most important exhibitions he has participated in, are: The Exhibition of Realist painters of Iran at Tehran Contemporary Museum of Art(1999) and The Group Exhibition of KARA Studio Painters at SABZ Gallery(1999 ) and at SA’AD ABAD Palace(2003). In 2005, Iman received the William Bouguereau award and the Chairman’s Choice award in the second international ARC salon competition”
Hope you like it 🙂
sarahndipity said,
May 6, 2007 at 6:37 am
Wow thank you Ema! Such a valuable information from such a valuable friend of my blog :+) thanks again
nahida said,
June 11, 2007 at 3:24 pm
AMAZING
JUST AMAZING
Art lover said,
July 26, 2007 at 4:53 am
Hi everyone
I found the website of Iman Maleki..(his name is not Ayman, this is probably why you weren’t finding any info about him)
here is the website for those who are interested:
http://www.imanmaleki.com
Enjoy!!
Becissa said,
November 2, 2007 at 12:43 pm
November 2nd,2007at 13:18 P.m
Hello! to all the art painting lovers,
Iman Maleki paintings are really fascinating.This great realist painter reminds me Etienne Dinet( hadj Nacer Eddine Dinet) who painted the daily life of people in Bou-Saada ( south of Algeria)at the beginning of the twentieth century.