Does art have the capacity to convey abstract, philosophical, and religious concepts? A conversation with artists who are concerned with this matter.

After the Islamic Revolution, the issue of the relationship between religion and art became one of the important and widely discussed topics in various theoretical and practical fields of art. I say “practical field” because, contrary to what might appear at first glance — that philosophers of art and art critics should have opened this discussion (which indeed they did) — perhaps more than anyone, and earlier than others, it was the artists who were familiar with the Revolution and the requirements of producing artistic works who began to think about this. They asked themselves: Given this great transformation that has taken place in the outward and inward aspects of society, what is our responsibility in the field of art?