Javad Alimohammadi Ardakani is considered a landscape painter. Alimohammadi was born in Ardakan, Yazd. He began his art education at the Academy of Visual Arts and received a diploma in painting. Then he went to university, graduated with a bachelor's degree in painting in 1999, and pursued his graduate studies in the same field. In 2011, he received a doctorate in art research from Shahed University. After that, he became a member of the Faculty of Arts of Tehran University of Science and Culture. Up until now, he has taught at art universities. He exhibited his works for the first time in 2002 at Laleh Gallery. His first solo exhibition was held at Dorsa Gallery in Tehran the following year. He also has collaborated with Farmanfarma Gallery and Artibition in his subsequent exhibitions.
Alimohammadi has had experience in the field of iconography. This collection of paintings with style similar to medieval Christian icons; it depicts figures on a golden background with a golden halo around them and is mounted on a red surface. Works that have an effect of oldness and decay in them. He initiated the "Earth, Time, Life" project in 2011. Each part of this trilogy consists of 32 paintings, and the reason for choosing this number is its symbolic aspects in Christian and Islamic concepts. The third collection of this trilogy, named "Life," was exhibited in Farmanfarma Gallery in 2019; A set of drawings of a single burnt tree that refers to the archetype of the tree of life. But most of Alimohammadi's works are landscape paintings (Zamin collection). His early landscapes are desert landscapes influenced by the climate of his hometown, Salt marshes that end in mountains disappearing into the horizon. Horizontal frames and empty spaces create a double depth and stillness, which carries a reflection and meditation. In his later works, single trees appear in this landscape, or the details of the mountains become more detailed and prominent. Gradually, these landscapes go beyond the representation of the artist's homeland, and by adding elements such as electricity pylons and dilapidated buildings, they take on a more modern tone. The range of warm colors of the first period of works gives way to black, white, and gray ranges. What can be seen in the foreground and background of these foggy and horizonless landscapes are burnt trees or broken electricity pylons. A burnt plain as if it had experienced a disaster. Bitter and biting images with an apocalyptic character remind TS Eliot's "The Land of the Weeds."