Jalil Ziapour (Persian: جلیل ضیاءپور, romanized: Jalīl Z̤iyāʼpūr; 1920–1999) was an Iranian painter, academician, researcher, and writer.

[2] Besides having been a leading painter and the head of the futuristic movement, he has had many research activities in the fields of anthropology, study and familiarization with language, public culture, clothing and decorative designs of different regions of Iran, and their results are currently used in universities as reference books.

[clarification needed] The first period of the school (1941–1945) announced three graduates in painting and Ziapour received the first place and the first class cultural medal from the school and headed to France by the scholarship presented by that country's government and continued studying in École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in visual arts field.

[4] In 1948, he returned to Iran, alongside other Iranian academy painters included Javad Hamidi, Shokouh Riazi, Ahmad Esfandiari,[5] and Hossein Kazemi.

[6] In 1949, Ziapour established the artistic board "Fighting Cock", which was a leading committee in the field of modern arts in literature, theater, music and painting, and started printing a magazine with the same name with his proponents and presented his theory about visual arts (painting) called "Refute of the Theories of Past and Contemporary Ideologies -from Primitive to Surrealism".

[8] In 1951, Ziapour founded the School of Decorative Arts for Boys (Persian: Honarestān-e honarhā-ye zibā-ye pesarān) in Tehran.