Tahir Salahov
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Biography
Salahov was born in Baku. His father Teymur Salahov was a victim of Stalin's repressions, having been arrested in 1937 and executed shortly after. His mother Sona was left to bring up four children on her own, but the family did not learn of their father's death until 1956 after Stalin's death.[2]
Tahir Salahov studied at the Azimzade Art College in Baku in 1945–1950 and the Surikov Moscow Art Institute in 1951–1957. Salahov won an early recognition: his diploma work, The Shift is Over, was exhibited in 1957 at the Moscow All-Union Art Exhibition and received public and critical acclaim. He became one of the leading representatives of the so-called "severe style"[3] (Russian: "суровый стиль"), a trend in Soviet art of the 1960s that aimed to set off a hard, publicist, realist view against the ceremonial "polished reality" of the Joseph Stalin era. Salahov's compositions on the life and work of the Baku oil-workers (e.g. "Repair Men", 1961, Mustafayev Azerbaijan State Museum of Art, Baku) and portraits, e.g., his portrait of Azerbaijani composer Gara Garayev (1960, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow), and Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1976, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow), are characterized by a forcefulness and lack of idealization. Salahov chose a sparing palette of contrasting red, black, light- and dark-grey tones and gave colored plains a decorative function.
His later works are more peaceful and lyrically contemplative, and Eastern influences are more apparent, as in Portrait of Grandson Dan (1983, Azerbaijan State Museum of Art), in which the composition and colouring are subordinate to the flowing rhythms of Eastern medieval miniatures. His lines became smoother and more melodious, his palette more sophisticated. Many of his most successful works are associated with his impressions of foreign countries (e.g., Mexican Corrida; 1969, Mustafayev Azerbaijan State Museum of Art). He also produced expressive drawings and stage designs. In 1998, Salahov was appointed an Academician of the National Academy of Arts of the Kyrgyz Republic, alongside fellow artists Durdy Bayramov, Suhrob Kurbanov, Turgunbai Sadykov, and Erbolat Tolepbai.
Awards
- Template:Hero of Socialist Labour Hero of Socialist Labour (1989)
- File:Orden for Service II.png Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (2003)
- File:Orden for Service III.png Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (1998)
- File:Order of Lenin ribbon bar.png Order of Lenin (1989)
- File:Order october revolution rib.png Order of the October Revolution (1976)
- File:Orderredbannerlabor rib.png Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971)
- File:Order friendship of peoples rib.png Order of Friendship of Peoples (1982)
- File:People Artist of the USSR1.jpg People's Artist of the USSR (visual arts) (1973)[1]
- File:State Prize Soviet Union.JPG USSR State Prize (1968 – for the portrait of composer Gara Garayev)
See also
References
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External links
- Salahov’s paintings at AZgallery.org
- "Tahir Salahov, A Hint of Red – Pushing the Limits of Socialist Realism" by Azad Sharifov and Jean Patterson in Azerbaijan International, Vol 7:2 (Summer 1999), pp. 51–54.]
- "Oil Rocks in the Caspian: Birthplace to a New Trend in Soviet Art," by Betty Blair in Azerbaijan International, Vol. 14:2 (Summer 2006), pp. 46–55
- "Deafening Silence: Waiting 18 Years for Father to Return Home" by Tahir and Zarifa Salahov in Azerbaijan International, Vol. 13.4 (Winter 2005), pp. 80–87.
- Salahov in Russian Academy of Arts (in Russian)
- Azeri Artists Take on the World
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- 1928 births
- 2021 deaths
- 20th-century Azerbaijani painters
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- 21st-century Azerbaijani painters
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- Artists from Baku
- Members of the Central Committee of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Seventh convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
- Eighth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
- Full Members of the Russian Academy of Arts
- Full Members of the USSR Academy of Arts
- Officers of the Legion of Honour
- Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Heroes of Socialist Labour
- People's Artists of the Azerbaijan SSR
- People's Artists of Russia (visual arts)
- People's Artists of the USSR (visual arts)
- Recipients of the Heydar Aliyev Order
- Recipients of the Istiglal Order
- Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class
- Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Recipients of the Order of Honor (Georgia)
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the October Revolution
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the USSR State Prize
- State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates
- Azerbaijani emigrants to Russia
- Azerbaijani portrait painters
- Soviet painters
- Burials at Alley of Honor