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Turkish artists to present their works in Baku

13 May 2019 [17:23] - TODAY.AZ

By Azernews


By Laman Ismayilova

An exhibition titled "Wind blowing from Turkey" will be held at the National Art Museum on May 14-24.

The event is co-organized by the Azerbaijan Culture Ministry, Yunus Emre Institute and the National Art Museum, Trend Life reported.

The exhibition aims at promotion of the Turkish cultural heritage in Azerbaijan. The event will include more than 50 works performed in various techniques and genres by Turkish academic artists Rauf Tuncer, Huseyn Elmas and Erkin Keskin.

The main feature of Rauf Tuncer's creativity lies in his unique style based on Turkish culture and Islamic motifs. Tuncer combines pre-Islamic and post-Islamic cultural heritage of Central Asia with modern visual art.

The art of Huseyn Elmas is a modern interpretation of the Turkish cultural heritage.

The main theme of Erkin Keskin's works is music and sound. Each painting is a separate piece of music. Applying a mixed technique, the artist encourages viewers to hear dazzling sound and music, creating a relief effect on the canvas.

The Azerbaijan National Art Museum is a treasure house that preserves national moral values and cultural heritage. The museum holds more than 17,000 artistic exhibits, which have a rich history.

Over 3,000 items in 60 rooms are on permanent display at the museum. Moreover, about 12,000 items are kept in storage. 

The collection of National Art Museum covers a vast span of time. Archaeological vessels date from the 6-4 millennia B.C., which were discover on the territory of different regions of Azerbaijan, ceramics of the Middle Ages, bronze and copper wares of the 11th-19th cc., unique ancient carpets, jewelry, executing in the different techniques are kept in the museum.

Approximately 9,000 scientific books and monographs, catalogues, albums and other professional literature are kept in the library of the museum.

Moreover, art lovers can enjoy the examples of decorative-applied arts of Western Europe. Seven of the rooms in the first building feature European art, and ten rooms feature Russian art.

Art works of Italian (Guercino, Leandro Bassano, Francesco Solimena, Lorenzo Bartolini), French (Jules Dupré, Gaspard Dughet, Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant), Dutch/Flemish (Frans Hals, Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Adriaen Brouwer, Adriaen van Ostade, Justus Sustermans, Pieter Claesz), German (Johann Heinrich Roos, Friedrich August von Kaulbach) and Polish (Jan Styka) painters are displayed in the museum.

Russian art is represented by paintings of Karl Briullov, Alexey Venetsianov, Vasily Vereshchagin, Isaac Levitan, Vladimir Makovsky, Valentin Serov, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Vasily Tropinin, Konstantin Korovin and Ivan Shishkin. There are also restored samples of Russian avant-garde.

The works of Azerbaijani artists Mir Mohsun Navvab, Bahruz Kangarli, Tair Salakhov, Azim Azimzade, Salam Salamzade, Vidadi Narimanbekov, Mikail Abdullayev, Togrul Narimanbekov and sculptor Omar Eldarov are also kept in the museum halls.

National Art Museum also holds book miniatures of 17th-19th centuries, lacquered miniatures (18th-19th centuries)  and collection of sherbet spoons made from mulberry tree.

The first works were obtained from Saint-Petersburg, Moscow and private collections. The museum expositions were later exhibited in Canada (1966), Cuba (1967), Syria (1968), France (1969), former Czechoslovakia, Algeria (both 1970), Iraq (1971) etc.

In 2018, the museum opened to art lovers after major overhaul.

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