Jalal Shabahangi is an Iranian Contemporary painter who was born in 1940. The minimalist paintings of Jalal Shabahangi are representations of the untouched nature of his homeland that has for a long time been abandoned amid the clamor of a turbulent modern life. Graduating from the University of San Jose, USA, Shabahangi has for thirty years been creating landscape paintings in diverse colors that show hills and deserts in central Iran. His command of color has made these works remarkable examples of Iranian contemporary painting. A truly abstract composition with highly minimalized curves is his interpretation of the spirit of nature; nature that is the product of meditation and union of the soul of the artist with the spirit of the nature. Although Shabahangi has a strong liking for nature, the flat color and surface of his works distinguish him from landscape painters, and the application of graphic elements brings his work closer to the world of modern illustration. He comments on the application of graphic elements in his paintings, “Minimalized thinking and imagination are building blocks of graphic design, and this is what my paintings have in common with this art form.”