FINE ART
Description
Fine Art
For most of the 20th century, Uzbekistan, as an "island of socialist Asia", was excluded from the international artistic context.
After gaining independence, when the country began to open up to the world, its art appeared as a bright and, at the same time, in many respects not incomprehensible phenomenon. It struck with its bizarre combination of traditionalism and innovation.
This illustrated album will help the viewer to get an idea of the originality of modern fine art of legendary land which had been terra incognita for many centuries. It presents both widely known and unfamiliar paintings from various museums and private collections, reflecting part of this long journey over the past hundred years.
It is well known that before the 20th century, Uzbekistan had developed for centuries in the context of Islamic culture. Political and cultural experiments undertaken after the 1917 revolution led to the formation of Uzbek fine art in 1920-1930, which was born in the synthesis of the cultures of the West and the East. From the first steps to the present, painting has played a key role in the art of Uzbekistan. The painters were the first to find ways to express national images, their understanding of oriental aesthetics and local flavor through new, European forms and techniques.
Author of the Masterpieces of Art of Uzbekistan series, author of the opening speech: Firdavs Abdukhalikov, Board Chairman of the World Society for the Study, Preservation and Popularization of the Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan, author and manager of the Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections project.
Academic editor of the series: Elmira Gyul (Institute of Art Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, academic coordinator of the Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections project, Uzbekistan).
Text by Nigora Akhmedova (Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan).
Design by Lola Radjabova (The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections project, Uzbekistan).
FINE ART
Description
Fine Art
For most of the 20th century, Uzbekistan, as an "island of socialist Asia", was excluded from the international artistic context.
After gaining independence, when the country began to open up to the world, its art appeared as a bright and, at the same time, in many respects not incomprehensible phenomenon. It struck with its bizarre combination of traditionalism and innovation.
This illustrated album will help the viewer to get an idea of the originality of modern fine art of legendary land which had been terra incognita for many centuries. It presents both widely known and unfamiliar paintings from various museums and private collections, reflecting part of this long journey over the past hundred years.
It is well known that before the 20th century, Uzbekistan had developed for centuries in the context of Islamic culture. Political and cultural experiments undertaken after the 1917 revolution led to the formation of Uzbek fine art in 1920-1930, which was born in the synthesis of the cultures of the West and the East. From the first steps to the present, painting has played a key role in the art of Uzbekistan. The painters were the first to find ways to express national images, their understanding of oriental aesthetics and local flavor through new, European forms and techniques.
Author of the Masterpieces of Art of Uzbekistan series, author of the opening speech: Firdavs Abdukhalikov, Board Chairman of the World Society for the Study, Preservation and Popularization of the Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan, author and manager of the Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections project.
Academic editor of the series: Elmira Gyul (Institute of Art Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, academic coordinator of the Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections project, Uzbekistan).
Text by Nigora Akhmedova (Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan).
Design by Lola Radjabova (The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections project, Uzbekistan).