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Fine Arts of Uzbekistan

Oriental masters have always been famous for their special artistic talent, which is fully manifested in the decoration and decoration of majestic palaces, mausoleums and other religious buildings. As a rule, the main motifs of Uzbek art are ornament, pattern and calligraphy. Islamic traditions prohibit the depiction of people and animals, so the masters began to develop more abstract directions, bringing them almost to perfection. Later, a new type of fine Uzbek art appeared-miniature-small bright colorful pictures covered with varnish decorated the interiors of palaces and rich houses.

In the XIV-XV centuries – the era of Timurid rule – Uzbek fine art also experienced an unprecedented flourishing in the general cultural upsurge. Details of amazing landscape paintings have been preserved in Samarkand mausoleums. Some palaces of Amir Temur were decorated with picturesque panels with portraits of the ruler himself, his wives, sons and associates, with rich, feasting scenes. At this time, the work of Kamoliddin Behzod was born – the greatest artist of the Middle Ages, an unsurpassed master of Oriental miniatures.

A new take-off of Uzbek art falls on the beginning of the XIX century. The art of miniatures reaches its highest peak, it is celebrated by such names as Ahmad Donish (1827-1897), Abdulkhalik-Makhmum and others.

Uzbek painting of the XX century was greatly influenced by Russian artists-peredvizhniki. Their remarkable works became the basis for the development of the Eastern school of portraits and landscapes, the development of the genre of realism in painting. You can get acquainted with the works of modern masters by visitingGallery of Fine Arts - the most modern exhibition hall in Tashkent, The Museum of Art, the richest exposition of which was initiated by the collection of European paintings of Grand Duke Nikolai KonstantinovichRomanovastreet.

Art lovers should definitely visitThe I. V. Savitsky Museum of Art in Nukus, which has over 90 thousand exhibits, including a collection of Russian avant-garde, fine arts of Uzbekistan, folk and applied arts of Karakalpakstan and art of Ancient Khorezm.

Collection of works by artists of Uzbekistan in the 20-30s

The museum's collection of Uzbek art is a vivid and most complete illustration of the period when the strongest school of fine arts was created in the 1920s-30s and represents a wide variety of existing trends, from realism (P. Benkov, Z. Kovalevskaya) to avant-garde searches (V. Ufimtsev, V. Lysenko, etc.). The school's composition was multinational – most of the young artists came to Uzbekistan from Russia.

Historically, the socio-cultural development of Central Asia was significantly influenced by Islam, which excluded easel art forms. On the other hand, the artistic life of Uzbekistan in the 1920s was also influenced by the rich ancient traditions of architecture, decorative and applied arts, and the art of book miniatures. The fusion of different cultures and traditions brought brightness and emotionality to the artistic life of Uzbekistan.

The works of such artists as A. Volkov and N. Karakhan are quite typical for that period: the rejection of the old and the construction of a new world. Paintings by E. Korovai, N. Kashina, P. Benkov, Z. Kovalevskaya intently study the East, bringing to the viewer the haze of the hot sun and the unhurried measured life of ancient cities. Orientalism is combined in the most bizarre way with the techniques of Italian painters and Russian iconography in the works of A. Nikolaev (Usto Mumin). In a bright and original manner of perception of the traditions of Impressionism and post-Impressionism, the works of U. S. Tolstoy are made. Tansykbayeva: the elegant simplicity of the image, the sonority of pure colorful spots; while V. Ufimtsev came to Uzbekistan as a futurist, becoming a supporter of this movement after a lecture by David Burlyuk.

In the following years, the art of many artists was forgotten. Rediscovered by Savitsky in the 1960s, paintings and drawings were hidden in the workshops, apartments, storerooms of artists and heirs. Much has been irretrievably lost. But even the surviving works are amazing with the highest skill of execution and a variety of creative solutions.

It was in the 1960s that Savitsky chose his own tactics for forming the collection - if possible, a monographic collection of the works of each artist who interested the museum, thus demonstrating his intellectual development. Each department of the museum is formed according to the same principle. Savitsky noted: "Exhaustively show this phenomenon-this is our main motto and we try to fulfill it..."