The Academy of Arts is currently running in its gallery an exhibition of six emerging artists, its recent graduates. Their works, which have aroused lively interest not only among teachers and students, but also among numerous visitors to the exhibition, reflect their advancement on the chosen path.
Chingiz Toraev’s ‘Bakhar’, celebrating springtime, portrays a young pregnant woman standing by a fruit tree in full blossom. Attired in a beautiful dress, matching the color of white and pink blossoms, with a smile on her face, she watches a hen with chickens pecking seeds together. Each nuance in the painting is metaphorical and creates compositional harmony and balance.
Chingiz Toraev, an artist from the city of Dashoguz, presents 28 paintings, portraits of women, for the most part. Most impressive are ‘A Selfie’, ‘In Waiting’, ‘My Wife’s Portrait’, ‘Maral’, and ‘Reflecting in the Mirror’. Many of the artist’s paintings are produced in the classical style. ‘My Wife’s Portrait’, for instance, realistically depicts a woman in the full bloom of youth with sparkling eyes and tender skin, accenting a soft glow of the mink fur stole slipping off her open shoulder.
Maral – an eponymous character of another painting – magically draws viewers, because the girl is holding in her arms a cat with incredibly intense and expressive eyes. Highlights and shadows created by pearly-white sunlight filtering through abundant fruit-bearing vines add dynamism and volume to the painting.
By contrast, ‘Reflecting in the Mirror’ is an avant-garde painting that reveals yet another side of Chingiz’s talent.
Most paintings by Ashgabat-based artist Nurberdy Batyrov now on display at the gallery also represent the artist’s departure from realism. His interpretations of urban landscapes are one of the original trends embraced by the artist. Trees reminiscent of eclectic light masts, or high-risers towering above the skyline and ‘gazing steadily’ at the flows of urban energy... Nurberdy’s ornate avant-garde paintings depict the capital’s architectural landscape full of fast-paced dynamics of modern times.
Bayram Nuryev, a young artist from the city of Mary, presents a still-life painting with ordinary fruits in an out-of-the-ordinary way, breaking new ground in painting. The still life features a mouth-watering winter melon, ripe pomegranates, yellow lemons and juicy grapes dusted with sparkling crystals of snow and arranged on a carpet outside the city with the snow-capped mountains in the background.
‘January in Dashoguz’ by Enysh Yagshimuradov continues the theme of snow. It snows quite often in the north of the country, but how beautiful the landscape covered with a pure white blanket of snow is. Most probably, it is the first snow of winter in Dashoguz – so fluffy and crisp under your feet with a touch of frost in the air, making everything spotlessly clean and fresh.
Enysh Yagshimuradov’s second painting ‘Pigeons’ also shows winter in Dashoguz with snow melting and leaving a big thawed patch on the ground. This frost-free strip of land is a welcome sign of warmer temperatures for pigeons and a good chance to find food.
‘A Cool Sea Breeze’ by artist Annadurdy Khojaev from the Balkan region portrays a sea at sunset in vivid and saturated hues. Indeed, an autumn breeze is drifting over the dark blue expanse of water, sending blue and purple ripples across the sea. In the distance, the sun is sinking below the horizon, lighting up the dramatic Caspian seascape.
Other highlights of the exhibition include 9 paintings by Meylis Nazarov. Each of them portrays the poetic Koytendag mountain landscapes. The artist’s works ooze calm and serenity: be it a landscape in emerald green hues with the first green grass, or a colorful landscape ablaze with bright blooms, or the one in light reddish-brown hues with late-summer plants dried up by the sun...
The six gifted young artists with non-trivial world views offered art enthusiasts a wonderful opportunity to take a glimpse into the future of arts, to expand their knowledge of painting techniques and styles, and to realize that creative work is a medium, pulsating with life and innovations.
Chingiz Toraev’s ‘Bakhar’, celebrating springtime, portrays a young pregnant woman standing by a fruit tree in full blossom. Attired in a beautiful dress, matching the color of white and pink blossoms, with a smile on her face, she watches a hen with chickens pecking seeds together. Each nuance in the painting is metaphorical and creates compositional harmony and balance.
Chingiz Toraev, an artist from the city of Dashoguz, presents 28 paintings, portraits of women, for the most part. Most impressive are ‘A Selfie’, ‘In Waiting’, ‘My Wife’s Portrait’, ‘Maral’, and ‘Reflecting in the Mirror’. Many of the artist’s paintings are produced in the classical style. ‘My Wife’s Portrait’, for instance, realistically depicts a woman in the full bloom of youth with sparkling eyes and tender skin, accenting a soft glow of the mink fur stole slipping off her open shoulder.
Maral – an eponymous character of another painting – magically draws viewers, because the girl is holding in her arms a cat with incredibly intense and expressive eyes. Highlights and shadows created by pearly-white sunlight filtering through abundant fruit-bearing vines add dynamism and volume to the painting.
By contrast, ‘Reflecting in the Mirror’ is an avant-garde painting that reveals yet another side of Chingiz’s talent.
Most paintings by Ashgabat-based artist Nurberdy Batyrov now on display at the gallery also represent the artist’s departure from realism. His interpretations of urban landscapes are one of the original trends embraced by the artist. Trees reminiscent of eclectic light masts, or high-risers towering above the skyline and ‘gazing steadily’ at the flows of urban energy... Nurberdy’s ornate avant-garde paintings depict the capital’s architectural landscape full of fast-paced dynamics of modern times.
Bayram Nuryev, a young artist from the city of Mary, presents a still-life painting with ordinary fruits in an out-of-the-ordinary way, breaking new ground in painting. The still life features a mouth-watering winter melon, ripe pomegranates, yellow lemons and juicy grapes dusted with sparkling crystals of snow and arranged on a carpet outside the city with the snow-capped mountains in the background.
‘January in Dashoguz’ by Enysh Yagshimuradov continues the theme of snow. It snows quite often in the north of the country, but how beautiful the landscape covered with a pure white blanket of snow is. Most probably, it is the first snow of winter in Dashoguz – so fluffy and crisp under your feet with a touch of frost in the air, making everything spotlessly clean and fresh.
Enysh Yagshimuradov’s second painting ‘Pigeons’ also shows winter in Dashoguz with snow melting and leaving a big thawed patch on the ground. This frost-free strip of land is a welcome sign of warmer temperatures for pigeons and a good chance to find food.
‘A Cool Sea Breeze’ by artist Annadurdy Khojaev from the Balkan region portrays a sea at sunset in vivid and saturated hues. Indeed, an autumn breeze is drifting over the dark blue expanse of water, sending blue and purple ripples across the sea. In the distance, the sun is sinking below the horizon, lighting up the dramatic Caspian seascape.
Other highlights of the exhibition include 9 paintings by Meylis Nazarov. Each of them portrays the poetic Koytendag mountain landscapes. The artist’s works ooze calm and serenity: be it a landscape in emerald green hues with the first green grass, or a colorful landscape ablaze with bright blooms, or the one in light reddish-brown hues with late-summer plants dried up by the sun...
The six gifted young artists with non-trivial world views offered art enthusiasts a wonderful opportunity to take a glimpse into the future of arts, to expand their knowledge of painting techniques and styles, and to realize that creative work is a medium, pulsating with life and innovations.
