The National Art Museum has opened an exhibition themed “Vajia
Samadova-100: Pages of the Artist’s Life”,
Azernews reports.
The exhibition was timed to the 100th anniversary of the
outstanding artist, Honoured Artist Vajia Samadova (1924–1965)
The museum director, Honoured Cultural Worker Shirin Malikova,
Vice-Rector of the Azerbaijan State Academy of Arts, People’s
Artist Salhab Mammadov, and grandson of Vajia Samadova Agshin
Feyzullayev, spoke at the event about the life and work of the
master of the brush, the country’s first female painter.
Co-organized by the Culture Ministry and National Art Museum,
the exhibition presents 60 works of painting and graphics created
by the artist in various genres.
In landscape works, the mysterious nature of the Azerbaijani
land comes to life, which the artist reflected on canvases based on
her observations.
And the art works created after a creative visit to Bulgaria
demonstrate compositions dedicated to nature, architecture, and the
people of this country.
The artist’s paintings are distinguished by their depiction of
vivid feelings and emotions, excellent compositional solutions, and
female images.
The concept of the exhibition is given special meaning by the
video material about the charming image of the author together with
his beloved life partner, artist Latif Feyzullayev (1918-1987), as
well as about his personality and creative world.
When his spouse died, Latif Feyzullayev was 45 years old. He
lived with her for 22 years. It was unbearably difficult for him to
endure separation.
Through his paintings “Old Cemetery”, “Lonely Grave”, “Portrait
of the Artist Vajia Samadov,” and “Morning”, Latif Feyzullayev
reflected his love for his wife and longing for her. After his
death, he was buried next to his beloved.
Vajia Samadova lived a short life, only 41 years old, but this
life contained unimaginably much – hundreds of canvases, several
generations of artists trained by her, beautiful and talented
children she raised, and the exhibition centre of the Azerbaijan
Artists’ Union bearing her name. That is why the memory of her
continues to live in the hearts of lovers of Azerbaijani
painting.
The freshness of colours and originality of composition inherent
in her works reflect a special view of the world.
She was not afraid of colours and feelings – the variety of
colours logically followed the circumstances of her life, the Baku
environment, and a happy childhood spent in the ancient part of
Baku – Icherisheher, which the artist considered the concentration
of beauty.
Her canvases are a constant joy of recognition. All the main
signs of Baku are here: pomegranate seeds dripping with juice and
colourful bouquets painted with large strokes, sea foam marked with
powerful white strokes on the Caspian shore; and an emerald palette
of greenery in the courtyard.
The exciting landscapes of the pearls of our native nature –
Goygol, Kura, Kapaz, Absheron, beautiful portraits of contemporary
women – smart, educated, self-confident, strong-willed beauties,
but with the tenderness, modesty and even shyness characteristic of
an eastern woman, Bulgarian motifs, full of national flavour
paintings about the lives of rural workers, self-portraits – all
this is so naturally, sincerely, and movingly conveyed on the
canvases that it is impossible to describe in the most beautiful
words.
The exhibition “Vajia Samadova-100: Pages of the Artist’s Life”
will last until November 25.
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