Abdurakhmanov, Nadir Gambar oglu

Nadir Abdurrahmanov was born on December 5, 1925 in Lachin . In 1933 , the family of N. Abdurakhmanov moved to Baku to a new place of work for the head of the family - the head of the pharmacy department. Gambar Abdurakhmanov dreamed of seeing his son as a professional doctor, but did not impede his passion for fine art. Nadir already felt the beneficial effects of his cousin, later known as a sculptor, folk artist Jalal Karyagda .

In the beginning, Nadir took painting lessons at the Baku House of Art Education for Children, and in 1940-1941 he was sent to study in Moscow, to a special art school for gifted children. When the war began, the young man returned to Baku and immediately entered the second year of art school. A. Azimzade .

However, the time was military, and completely different professions were needed. N. Abdurakhmanov enters the medical faculty of the medical institute. But an irresistible love of painting prevailed, Nadir transferred to the evening department of the medical institute and returned to the art school. At the republican exhibition in 1944 , he first exhibited his painting “Refugees”.

He came to the end of his studies at the school, and in 1947 he received a medical degree. In the same year, he comes to a decision: to take up painting seriously, to get an academic education, for which N. Abdurakhmanov goes to Leningrad. In the city on the Neva, he was taught by such famous brush masters as A. Mylnikov , V. Oreshnikov . But no less, according to the artist, his aesthetic taste was influenced by the magnificent museums of Leningrad: the Hermitage , the Russian Museum and others. In 1953, Abdurrakhmanov graduated from the I.E. Repin Institute in Leningrad ^[1] .

Since 1960 , for 10 years, Nadir Abdurakhmanov headed the Union of Artists of Azerbaijan, in the same years he was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Council of the republic from the Lachin region. In 1960, the artist received the honorary title Honored Art Worker, and in 1964 - People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR. In 1983, Nadir Abdurakhmanov, the head of the department of painting at the Azerbaijan Institute of Arts, was awarded the title of professor, and in 1985 he was awarded the State Prize of Azerbaijan for a series of works dedicated to the people of Karabakh . July 26, 2008, Azerbaijani art suffered a heavy loss, Nadir Abdurrakhmanov died in the 83rd year of his life ^[2] .

In an effort to create deeply realistic images, to achieve the greatest plastic expressiveness, N. Abdurakhmanov already writes large-format subject-themed canvases at an early stage of his work. He is attracted by both the historical and revolutionary past of the Azerbaijani people, and the bustling modern life of the republic, perfectly embodied by the artist in his industrial and rural landscapes.

A deliberate search for an individual artistic vision, original visual means, synthesized subsequently into an original, deeply emotional style, led Nadir Abdurakhmanov to create such works as “The Arrest of 26 Baku Commissars”, “Lenin's Word” (1953), “Mournful News” (1958) , “Industrial Landscape” (1954), “On Eilag” (1957), “Morning in the Mountains” (1957), “Fresh Number of Kirpie” (1958). These paintings, having become a noticeable phenomenon in Azerbaijani painting, put forward their creator among the largest masters of Soviet fine art.

A large role in the artist’s work was played by a trip to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 1958. The landscapes, portraits, sketches and drawings embodied the unique originality of the “country of morning freshness”, the beauty of its nature, the life and life of ordinary people in Korea, who are engaged in creative work for the benefit of the new society. At personal exhibitions "In Korea", organized in Baku and Moscow , the best paintings and sketches from this series were shown.

In such works as “Fishermen”, “Morning on the bridge”, “On the crossing”, “New Korea”, “In the agricultural cartel”, “In Keson”, “East Sea”, the artist achieved a broad artistic generalization. In these works, the artist seeks to reveal the emotional mood of the work, the integrity and lyricism of the worldview.

In the early 60s. the artist made a trip to Lankaran and began work on the painting “Planting Rice”. Lankaran motifs reminded Abdurakhmanov, as the artist subsequently wrote, plots of Korea. The etudes, written from nature in oil and tempera, glorify the beauty of Azerbaijani women. In the everyday, simple, at first glance, prosaic plot, the artist finds a special emotional expressiveness. The whole system of expressive means - a single lighting, clarity of composition, linear rhythms, purity of color combinations create a figurative and poetic structure of the canvas, serve to reveal the harmony of the spiritual appearance of man and nature.

At the same time, the painter turned to the topic of labor. The search for the courageously harsh and monumental language in painting was reflected in such canvases as “Constructions of the seven-year plan” and “Builders of Ali-Bayramlinskaya state district power station” and others.

Among the famous works of Abdurakhmanov written in different years - “Twilight in the mountains”, “Favorite patterns”, “Spring in the mountains”, “World of Firyuza”, “Talysh girl”, “People of our mountains”, “Talysh”, in which the pulse of modern life. The artist loves the world that surrounds him, he sees it bright and joyful. A poetic perception of life is also characteristic of many of the painter's landscapes, which are dedicated to the mountainous regions of his native land: Lerik, Lachin, Shusha. Such are “Village in the Mountains”, “ Lachin ”, “ Lerik . Spring ”,“ Lake in the Mountains ”,“ On Lake Kara-Gel ”,“ Minkend ”,“ Shusha ”, etc.

The paintings and drawings of the Iraq - Afghanistan series were created by Abdurakhmanov in recent years on the impressions of a trip to these friendly countries and have become a new page in the creative biography of an Azerbaijani artist. One of the best paintings in this series is the Twilight painting. The deep emotional and aesthetic expressiveness of the painting is due to the rhythmic construction of space. The harmony of lines and colors with particular poetry is expressed in such works as “Orange Grove”, “Mosul”, “Street in Baghdad ”, “Sunny Day”, “Girl with Donkeys”, “Ghazni”, “Street in Kabul ”, “ Students from Kabul ”,“ Afghans ”,“ Seller of pottery ”,“ Portrait of the artist Farad ”, etc. Each of these works reveals a new facet of the artist’s pictorial talent.

• Order of the Badge of Honor (06/09/1959)
• State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR

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