At the beginning of the 20th century a new generation of local artists appeared in Turkestan. To become professional artists, they went to art schools in the European part of the Russian Empire and then returned back home. Thus, the first generation of Uzbek artists were carriers of two cultural traditions – the Russian (European) and the local (Middle East, Uzbek). Middle Asia was not exotic for them, but a fully-fledged part of their life and of their artistic vision of the world (L. L. Bure, A. N. Volkov).
In the early 1930s the State museum of Oriental Art started to create its own collection of fine arts of Uzbekistan. Today the collection of fine arts of Uzbekistan in the Museum contains over 450 works by more than 60 artists. Works by L.L. Bure and A.N. Volkov also make up this collection.
You can learn more about this topic in the book-album "The Collection of the State Museum of Oriental Art" (Volume I) (Moscow, Russia) from the series "The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan".
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L.L. Bure
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A.N. Volkov