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Acquaintance with the keepers of centuries – old traditions
Today’s release is dedicated to the Academician of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan, People’s Master of Uzbekistan, Niyazali Kholmatov.
The works of Niyazali Kholmatov cannot be confused with the works of other artists in Uzbekistan.
Despite his versatile creativity – lacquer miniatures, jewelry art, monumental paintings, illustrations for books, easel works – they are distinguished by their integrity, meaningfulness and the artist’s special attitude to the historical tradition.
Kholmatov is one of those who stood at the origins of the revival of lacquer miniatures in Uzbekistan.
The master with his creativity, works showed the possible way of development of the traditions of historical miniature in contemporary art. Refusing to follow the strict canonical system of local schools of miniature, he introduced individual originality both in the technological process and in the figurative solution of the works.
Thanks to such masters as Niyazali Kholmatov, miniature in Uzbekistan during the years of independence has become not just a tradition or an art form, but rather a capacious artistic and stylistic trend, including lacquer miniatures, wall paintings, miniatures on paper, fabric, leather.
Niyazali Kholmatov is one of the first artists in Uzbekistan who tried to comprehend both sensually and pragmatically the experience of Sufism – the sphere of religious, and more broadly – spiritual and moral experience, which has a tremendous impact on all medieval artistic creativity.
The artistic principles of the traditional art of the East are reflected in the monumental paintings of Niyazali Kholmatov.
Carpet weaving, planar design of graphic forms, symbolism of color and images, rejection of randomness and immediacy are characteristic of his paintings in the Syrdarya Musical Drama Theater named after A. Khodzhaev, in the Turkiston Palace, in the buildings of the Indian and Turkish embassies in Tashkent, etc.
