Person of the week: Azam Atakhanov
ARTinvestment.RU   06 апреля 2020

In the works of Atakhanova combines national, Russian and European artistic traditions. Bright and very warm paintings reveals a surprising picture of the world in which the intertwined cultures of East and West

Azam Atakhanov — painter and muralist. Having seen it work once, it is difficult to remain indifferent. Gemstone colors fascinate with its magic. "The artist is inherent in a powerful coloristic gift, unerring sense of color that-то like absolute pitch in music", — write about this art.

Azam was born in 1964 in Dushanbe. Since childhood, drew, graduated from College in his hometown. With great warmth and respect he recalls his first teachers — Akhmat Umarov, Muriate beknazarova, which revealed to him the beauty of the world, instilled a love of painting. In 1983 he entered the Moscow higher art-промышленное school (b. Stroganov). Teachers at art school had a great influence on the formation of artistic taste and Outlook of the young artist. Alexander Kurdyukov instilled a love for great shape, an architect Anatoly Sviridov acquainted with the laws of harmony in the composition.

Source of inspiration for the artist was the native land, its traditions and culture. It was here that he drew the subjects of many of his works. Decorative sonority and contrast color combinations, a large part of the color, rhythm and texture are also closely connected with the national culture.

in Addition to the local colors and simple pattern, art historians note a kind of "puantel," which can often be noticed in the paintings of the artist. It is associated with traces of minting or stitches of embroidery, so that the traditional art of the East.

Another source of inspiration for Azam became Russian art. He discovers the works of the classics of Russian realist painting, masters of the avant-garde, closely examines the work of artists such as P. Kuznetsov, R. Falk, D. Shterenberg, N. Krymov, Vladimir Favorsky and others.

the Life of man in harmony with nature — leitmotif of creativity Atakhanova. In many works transforms reality, they remain lyrically-созерцательный system. Pictorial language escalates, more tending to a decorative manner of expression. A'zam is dominated by frontal composition and conditional space, a fairly planar structure of the painting. This mostly refers to the Eastern tradition, at the same time is one of the elements of the art of the Russian avant-garde.

the Monumentality inherent in the paintings of the artist, refers to another series of spiritual teachers — to the masters of the Italian Renaissance: Duccio, Giotto, fra Angelico, Gozzoli and others Atakhanov has traveled to cities in Italy and discovered the secrets of the beautiful craftsmanship of the titans of the Renaissance, spent hours studying the frescoes of the Italian churches, visited famous museums and galleries. These strong impressions reinforced the principles already established in art.

Heroes Azam, dressed in national clothes, politely drinking tea at a table, relax in the shade of trees or slowlygo for a walk. All subjects connected with real life, but he plays them as something stable, traditional, eternal. Refers to create typical images, which embodies the national character. They have some-то sublime poetry, imaginative harmony and beauty, despite the ordinariness of the motive, everyday life events.

Azam Atakhanov — participated in many domestic and foreign art exhibitions. Since 1988 his works were exhibited at the State Museum of East (2001, 2005, 2010, 2016). Works are in the collections of the State Museum of Oriental art, State Museum of fine arts of Tatarstan, the Moscow Museum of modern art, the State Museum-выставочного centre ROSIZO, the National Museum of fine arts. Kamoliddin Behzod (Dushanbe), Museum of fine arts (Tyumen).

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