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Bright creative representatives of the avantgarde in Central Asia
The researchers noted: “The stylistic innovations of Alexander Volkov continued the traditions of the Russian Post-Cubism that made adjustments in the traditions of the founders of this direction – the French Cubism artists, including Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.
What was the uniqueness of the Turkestan avant-garde?
The uniqueness of the Turkestan avantgarde was the fact that it got acquired the experience and achievements of the Russian avantgarde (and the Russian avantgarde, in turn, acquired the European experience) with the artistic experience of the Central Asian traditional culture.
Creation of a national school of fine arts in Uzbekistan
In the 1920s, the formation of the national school of fine arts in Uzbekistan occurred.
Uzbekistan through the eyes of a Polish artist
Stanisław Poznański’s works created during his trip to Uzbekistan were exhibited in Warsaw in 1970, then travelled to Kraków and other cities across Poland.
Polish artist inspired by the Central Asian region
Apart from the material culture of Asia and Oceania, the Museum holds works by Polish artists inspired by the region.
A 19th-century water pipe housed in the Asia and the Pacific Museum
In the collection of the Asia and Pacific Museum, in addition to the various metal vessels commonly used in Uzbek homes, there are also other items made of metal, such as the chilim water pipe MAiP 17761, dated to the 2nd half of the 20th century.
Uzbek custom of drinking tea
In the second half of the 19th century, the custom of drinking tea was widespread in Central Asia.
Bride's dowry which was not honored without copper vessels
Some of the copper embossed items were kumgans or vessels for making tea, oftoba and dastshui or washing utensils and others which were considered mandatory in the wedding dowry.
Metal objects were considered a symbol of luxury and wealth
The Asia and Pacific Museum has a representative collection of metal vessels from Central Asia, containing primarily objects from Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.
Did you know that a person's origins used to be determined by the embroidery on clothes?
At the turn of the 19th and 20th century different local embroidery styles and compositions developed across the regions.
“Wherever I go, my skullcap is with me”...
Complementing the collection are numerous pieces of headgear adorned with characteristic ornaments, embroidery stitches and motifs characteristic for different Uzbek regions.
What earrings were worn in Tashkent at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries?
Widespread types of earrings were those shaped like domes, kubba, with pendants, also called kashgar boldoq that were similar to a l arge ring, whose lower half was decorated with grains and filigrees that came into use after refugees fleeing from Kashgar, conquered by China, settled in the valley.
Illustration for “The Tale of the Princess of the Maghreb”
The illustration refers to an excerpt from one of the episodes of the poem Seven Beauties, part of the Khamsa by Nizami, in which a Maghreb princess in the Blue Pavilion tells Bahram a tale about the misadventures of an Egyptian youth – a merchant Mahan who found himself in the land of genies and divas.
Do you know about Julkhirs carpets?
Julkhirs are widely considered the most authentic type of Uzbek carpets. In the 19th–early 20th centuries, the production of these long-pile items was spread mostly among the Uzbek of the Samarkand and Jizak regions, the Uzbek-Turkoman from the Nurata Intermontane region, and partly among the Arabs and the Kyrgyz of the Fergana Valley.
Was the "famous hunter" copied from the British Library?
For the work “Khamsa” by the Azerbaijani poet and educator Nizami Ganjavi, many illustrations were written by the great artist of the East Kamal ud-din Behzad, which are currently stored in libraries around the world.
Kyz-gilam
Kyz-gilam is the conventional name for another group of embroidered carpets made by the Kungrat and Lakai of Kashkadarya and Surkhandarya.
From the history of musical culture of Uzbekistan
The origin of the primary forms of music in Uzbekistan goes back into the millennia.
The role of developed historical and cultural areas in the development of tools
Local centers of instrumental development also came into being thanks to these distinct historical and cultural areas.
What types of lute existed in the historical and cultural region of Sogd?
The musical influence of Sogd can be traced throughout all the historical and cultural regions of Central Asia and beyond. “Short lutes” close in form to the Sogdian lute were also discovered in Bactria – Tokharistan, Surkhandarya region, southern Uzbekistan, from pre-modern Central Asia (400 BC – 400 – 500 AD) to the early Middle Ages (up to the 8th century).
Uzbek collection stored in the Japanese Art Museum
Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum was opened in Hiroshima City, the prefecture of Hiroshima, in 1968.
Do you know what crafts flourished during the Temurid era?
The production of metal vessels has a long tradition in Central Asia, with its heyday during the Timurid dynasty.
The collection of the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I.V. Savitskiy
Today the collection of the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I.V. Savitskiy has about 100,000 items of storage and covers more than four millennia chronologically, and according to experts, it is the best art collection of the Central Asian region.
What items does the collection of the Museum of Karakalpakstan consist of?
The archaeological collection of the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I.V. Savitskiy takes a worthy place among other collections of museums on the quantitative and qualitative composition of the exhibits.
About the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I.V. Savitskiy
The State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I. V. Savitskiy is known far beyond Uzbekistan.
“Luster” vessels of the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan
The collection of the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I.V. Savitsky has a lot of architectural ornaments (capitals and bases of shaped columns, glazed tiles, etc.), various kinds of pottery (khums, humchi, pitchers, vases, bowls, dishes, and cups), all kinds of jewelry (necklaces, pendants, rings, earrings, bracelets), samples of small arms (bronze arrowheads), as well as an extensive collection of silver and copper coins from within the 3rd – 18th centuries.
What is the superiority of the archaeological collection of the Karakalpakstan Museum of Art over other museum collections?
Today, the archaeological collection of the State Museum of Arts of Karakalpakstan named after I. V. Savitskiy has more than nine thousand items (9,134 items) in the main fund and 32,579 items in scientific and support funds.
Chest-like ossuary from Tok Kala
The archaeological collection of the State Museum of Arts of Karakalpakstan named after I. V. Savitskiy includes the items related to different religious cults, which had spread in Karakalpakstan in different periods (Zoroastrianism, Hellenistic cults, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam).
Ossuary in the form of reclining camel found in Anka-kala
The collection items of the State Museum of Arts of Karakalpakstan named after I. V. Savitskiy related to the Zoroastrian funerary – ossuaries dating from the 4th century BC to the 8th century AD make an extensive section of the collection.
Gold rings, jeweled by almandines
Early antiquity in the archaeological collection of the State Museum of Arts of Karakalpakstan named after I. V. Savitskiy is represented by ancient rural cultures of Central Asia with their painted engobed pottery and clay figurines.
Horse sculpture found in Tuyamuyun
Antique period is also represented in the collection of the State Museum of Arts of Karakalpakstan named after I. V. Savitskiy by numerous terracotta figurines, the size of which ranging from 8 to 13 cm in height.
Collection of figurines in the Museum of Karakalpakstan
Today, the archaeological collection of the State Museum of Arts of Karakalpakstan named after I. V. Savitskiy has more than nine thousand items (9,134 items) in the main fund and 32,579 items in scientific and support funds.
On November 23-24, the International Symposium on the emigration literature of Turkic peoples was held at Istanbul University (Turkey)
Literary scholars from more than ten countries took part in it, including members of the World Society for the Study, Preservation and Popularization of the Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan.
Do you know how highranking officials of the oasis city were dressed?
The richness and diversity of traditional Uzbek costumes was memorialised in the journals of European merchants visiting oasis cities in the 19th century and exquisite photographs capturing the life of Central Asian people taken by foreign photographers travelling across the region: Polish officer of the tsarist army Leon Barszczewski (1849 – 1910) and Russian photographer Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (1863 – 1944), as well as the fest Uzbek photographer Hudaibergen Divanov (1878 – 1938).
Kuluta – women's popular caps in the 19th century
In the 19th century, women, after giving birth to two or three children, wore caps with kuluta braid covers.
Tilla-bargak and tilla-qosh are popular forehead decorations for residents of the Fergana Valley and Tashkent
The tilla-bargak was worn over the scarf; it consisted of connected squares festooned with turquoise and corals.
Musical art during the time of Husayn Bayqara
Musical art reaches its peak in the second half of the 15th century in Herat under Husayn Bayqara and Alisher Navoi.