The artist with a tragic fate, he carried an unbending love of life and art through all his life. It is hard not to notice two areas of his work: a distinct realism and a grotesque satirical decorativeness. As we know, a large number of his works were lost (during a period between 1924 and 1936); therefore, his works presented in the State Museum of Arts have special significance.
The paintings “Carpenter team”, “Selmash Plant kitchen”, “Fire Brigade”, “Red Teahouse”, “Bouquet” and “Still Life” demonstrate not only the scale and diversity of the creative talent of the artist, but also the period when the realistic style begins to prevail in his work. Another artist who contributed to the formation of the Uzbek National School of Fine Arts was N. Karakhan. In his works “Wheat Harvesting”, “Factory Pipes”, “Salar”, “Women by the River”, “Pink Mountains” and “Help the Hillsliders”, one can feel the modernity, the monumental language of the fresco, the large scale of plasticity, the energy of bright colour.
The paintings made by the artist are a kind of chronicle of the construction of a new Uzbekistan. Vivid stylized drawing, rhythmic composition and decorativeness are distinctive features of the works of Karakhan.
You can learn more about this topic in the book-album “The Collection of the State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan” (Volume XIII) from the series “Cultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections”.
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Artists who contributed to the formation of the Uzbek national school of fine arts (Part II)
One of the prominent, dramatic painters of the Uzbek avant-garde represented in the collection of the Museum is M. Kurzin.