What is Aydin Aghdashloo?
{{Infobox person | name = Aydin Aghdashloo | image = Aydin Aghdashloo 04 (cropped).jpg | caption = Aghdashloo in 2014 | birth_name = Aydin Aghdashloo | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|10|30}} | birth_place = [[Rasht]], Iran | other_names = Faramarz Kheybari | alma_mater = [[University of Tehran]] | occupation = {{hlist|Painter|art historian|art critic}} | movement = | spouse = {{plainlist| *{{marriage|[[Shohreh Aghdashloo]]|1972|1979|end=div}} *{{marriage|Firouzeh Athari<br>|1981}}}} | children = 2 | honours = [[Legion of Honour]] | website = {{URL|www.aghdashloo.com/}} | field = | training = | works = ''Termination Memories''<br> ''Falling Angels'' <br> ''Identity: In Praise of Sandro Botticelli'' }} '''Aydin Aghdashloo''' ({{lang-fa|آیدین آغداشلو}}; born October 30, 1940) is an Iranian painter, [[Graphics|graphist]], writer, [[Film criticism|film critic]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/persian/arts/2012/11/121110_l41_book_cinema_aghdashloo_review|title=BBC Persian}}</ref> Aghdashloo was decorated with the [[Legion of Honor|Chevalier (Knight)]] award, by the French government for his civil achievements.<ref name=RI>{{cite web|url=http://realiran.org/iranian-painter-awarded-frances-highest-honor/|title=Iranian painter awarded France's highest honor|publisher=Real Iran|date=January 14, 2016|access-date=December 15, 2017|archive-date=December 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215163805/http://realiran.org/iranian-painter-awarded-frances-highest-honor/|url-status=dead}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Iranian painters]] [[Category:Art critics]] [[Category:Iranian academics]] [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:Living people]] {{Biography-stub}}