Maral Rahmanzade – Azerbaijan’s first professional artist, master in national graphic art – AZERTAC

Baku, February 15, AZERTAC

The visible arts of Azerbaijan are recognized for a lot of large names of people that labored in several instances and left a mark on the tradition of the Azerbaijani folks.

Azerbaijan’s first skilled artist – Maral Rahmanzade, who has grow to be a grasp in nationwide graphic artwork, was one in every of them.

Folks’s Artist of Azerbaijan Maral Rahmanzade, who was born in Mardakan, Baku, in 1916, is among the first feminine Azerbaijani artists who obtained an expert creative schooling.

Rahmanzade studied on the Azerbaijan State Technical Faculty of Arts and later on the Moscow State Institute of Arts.

Whereas finding out on the Moscow State Tutorial Artwork Institute, Rahmanzade was taught by eminent artists corresponding to Lev Bruni, Dmitry Moor and Vladimir Favorsky. One of many eminent Russian artist and artwork critic Igor Grabar described Maral Rahmanzade as “a really gifted Azerbaijani woman”.

Rahmanzade began her profession as a graphic artist creating posters with patriotic content material throughout the years of the Nice Patriotic Warfare. She continued with illustrations for Khatai’s “Dahname”, Jafar Jabbarly’s “Gulzar” and “Maiden Tower”, M.S. Ordubadi’s “Knife and pen”, A. Zograbbekov’s “The Land of Hearth”.

A brand new theme that the artist typically returned to with revised types – oil options strongly in Maral Rahmanzade’s work throughout post-war reconstruction, as she was the primary artist who went to work on the “Oil rocks”, the primary offshore oil platform in Baku. Whereas there, she was observing the oilmen’s working days, their on a regular basis life ensuing right into a collection of graphic works, by which she experimented with the medium of linocut, engraving, watercolor and combined media. These works are devoted to the nice labor of the hardworking oilmen and are thought-about to be milestones of Azerbaijani graphic artwork.

Upon returning to Baku, the painter transformed impressions from the journey into quite a few graphic photos. The romance of the oilmen’s labour and the tensions evoked by their working surroundings discovered their outstanding expression in her lithographs corresponding to “Oil Rocks” (1956-1957), “On the Tanker” (1954), “Happening Shift” (1956-1957); and within the photos “Within the storm” (Nineteen Fifties), “Offshore effectively” (1956-1957) and so forth. painted in watercolours.

Rahmanzada turned additionally well-known for her work with industrial and mountain views. She depicted constructions of the big factories in Sumgayit and Rustavi in addition to documented her travels to the best elements of Azerbaijan in her distinguished “Khinalig” collection.

The artist has considerably contributed to the event of the Azerbaijan nationwide college of artwork. Thus, Maral displayed her love for the native nation – Azerbaijan, in a collection of works referred to as “My Azerbaijan” (1965-1982), highlighting the particular surroundings of every area: Lachin, Guba, Nakhchivan, Absheron, Lankaran in addition to Khinalig village, in work and graphics.

Rahmanzade was on the forefront of Azerbaijan’s artwork scene and her items adorn many world-renowned museums and have been featured in a number of excessive profile worldwide exhibitions in England, France, Italy, Japan, Australia and her house, Azerbaijan. Exhibitions included (1957) “The primary All-Union print exhibition”, Moscow, Russia, (2006) “Q Gallery”, Baku, Azerbaijan and (2016) “Maral Rahmanzade”, “a hundredth anniversary exhibition Azerbaijan” on the Nationwide Museum of Artwork, Azerbaijan, Baku.

All through her profession, Maral Rahmanzade additionally illustrated prestigious literary works, together with “Eugene Onegin” by Alexander Pushkin and “A Hero of Our Time”’ by Mikhail Lermontov.

Maral Rahmanzade was named Folks’s Artist of Azerbaijan in 1964 and obtained the Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic in 1965.

Her works not solely performed an distinctive position within the growth of nationwide positive arts, but additionally performed an necessary position in educating the Azerbaijani youth within the spirit of patriotism.

Maral Rahmanzade died in Baku on March 18, 2008.