NEWS

Art connoisseurs have a chance to enjoy art works of eminent Azerbaijani artists without leaving home.

Azerbaijan State Picture Gallery has launched a new art project- #birəsər (one work) on social networks.

The project showcases art pieces of Azerbaijani artists, including Togrul Narimanbayov, Tagi Taghiyev, Rasim Babayev, Latif Feizullayev, Davud Kazimov, Mikhail Abdullayev, and others.

Initiated by the State Picture Gallery, the project is organized with the support of the Azerbaijan Ministry of Culture.

Among the art pieces presented are the works of Tagi Tagiyev, Rasim Babayev, Latif Feizullaev, Davud Kazymov, Mikail Abdullaev, Togrul Narimanbekov and others.

You can get acquainted with the works of famous Azerbaijani artists on the gallery`s Facebook  and Instagram.

Baku Chamber Orchestra has joined a new challenge #senetinledestekle, supported by the Azerbaijan Ministry of Culture.

The action brought together talented musicians, who brilliantly performed music from Gara Garayev`s Path of Thunder ballet under the guidance of eminent conductor, Honored Artist Fuad Ibrahimov. Their magnificent performance left no one indifferent.

Founded in 2011, Baku Chamber Orchestra has successfully toured Italy, Belgium, Germany, Turkey and other countries. 

The orchestra consists of young talented musicians, laureates of international competitions, who never cease to amaze the listeners.

The orchestra's artistic director is vice-rector of International Relations at Baku Music Academy, People’s Artist of Azerbaijanc. She is the author of numerous piano preludes, sonatinas, as well as "Ashug" concert piece for two pianos and various songs.

ESA Theater invites you to enjoy its performances on a social network as part of #Evdəbax (Watch at home) campaign.

The theater`s program include such plays as "Of Mice and Men", "Paris exploded", "Blue Bird", "Nasimi: Mystery" and "The Oath". 

You can watch theater performances on Facebook until the end of April.

ESA Theater is the first inclusive theater with actors with disabilities in Azerbaijan and the Caucasus.

The theater destroys all stereotypes in the theater art, which has ancient traditions.

The name of the theater consists of three words – Unobstructed, Unlimited and Free. This is how its actors feel despite their limited possibilities of health.

The theater’s progressive goals include ensuring and accelerating social integration of the persons with disabilities, ensuring joint activity of people with or without disabilities, raising their social and public welfare, promoting them to deal with not only theater, but also other fields of the art, etc.

Gara Garayev Central Arts School has started filming music classes as part of the project  "Bizi birləşdirən mədəniyyət " (United by culture).

Co-organized by the Azerbaijan Ministry of Culture and Medeniyyet TV, the music classes offer a great opportunity for young musicians  to learn more during quarantine. 

The first music classes were succsessfully held by the director of the Gara Garayev Central Art, Honored Artist Aziz Garayusifli (clarinet), head of the piano department Mansura Guliyeva, head of the folk instruments department Shahnaz Muradova (kamancha), leading teacher of the arts school Tarana Babayeva (kamancha), choreographers Emil Panakhov, Sabina Ismayilova as well as musicologist Leyla Hasanova (music literature).

Music classes cover a wide range of music classes. The program wil be aired on Medeniyyet TV until  April 2.

Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum has published a new publication to mark its 50th anniversary.

The publication hihghlights the museum`s history and its collections, including pile and pileless rugs, fabrics, clothes, embroidery, jewelry, metal art, ceramics, wood, glass and others.

Separate chapters are devoted to the exhibitions, international relations, as well as Shusha branch, which, temporarily functions in the museum`s  main building in Baku.

The publication provides art lovers with useful information from stunning photographs to archival documents.

Each chapter is prepared by leading art historians and specialists in this field. The book is translated into Azerbaijani, English and Russian.

For more information, please visit the museum`s official website:

Unique Azerbaijani carpets are well-known all over the world for their quality and high artistic value.

The Land of Fire has seven carpet producing regions including Baku, Shirvan, Guba, Tabriz, Karabakh, Ganja and Gazakh and each of them has their own technology, typical patterns and colors.

Founded in 1967, Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum displays some of the best examples of the carpet weaving art.

The museum, initiated by Latif Karimov, an outstanding scientist and carpet weaver is beautiful inside and out. The new building of the Carpet Museum, designed in the form of a rolled carpet, opened in the Baku Seaside Park in 2014 and all carpets were transferred to this museum.

Today the museum hosts many events, such as exhibitions, international symposiums, and conferences.

In 2019, the museum received the national status for its significant contribution in popularization and promotion of the Azerbaijani Carpet Weaving Art.

Every Friday, Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum delights art lovers with unique exhibits, which hold historical value.

The museum invites its visitors to travel through the enchanted world of carpet weaving art.

The Carpet Museum has already provided insight into beautiful Gazakh carpet and portrait carpet ”Rabindranath Tagore” (1987) on its Facebook page.

“Gazakh carpets are famous for their high pile, relatively low density, and intense natural colors. The museum possesses a unique early-20th-century Gazakh Shikhly carpet (Inv. No. 599).​ This carpet got its name from the village of Shikhly, which is located on the banks of the Kura River, 30 km from Gazakh,” the message said.

The design of this carpet is known among weavers as Aghajli (With a Tree) or Chinar. The central field represents a garden. The medallions are separated and the space between them is ornamented with elongated elements reminiscent of cypresses, revered as a sacred tree since ancient times, as well as animal and bird motifs. The elongated elements woven in the field’s four corners symbolize garden gates − doggaz.

The oldest carpet weavers explained that this design signified paradise by simulating the gates of paradise.​ Notably, the central field appears as a sacred area and the borders act as its guardians. On the carpet's border, one can observe birds facing each other, a symbol of love and four natural elements.

Speaking about portrait carpet “Rabindranath Tagore”, it was stressed that this exquisite art work by People's Artist Kamil Aliyev is part of the museum's permanent exhibition. A portrait of Rabindranath Tagore, a famous Indian cultural figure, the first Nobel Laureate of Asia decorates the carpet's central medallion.

The carpet's design is similar to the Khantermeh composition of the Karabakh group. Buta, islimi, shahabbasi flowers, and cloud elements adorn the carpet's medallion and central field. The technical perfection, pleasing colors, and warm shades characteristic of Kamil Aliyev's works are reflected in this artwork as well.

The weather will be changeable cloudy, occasionally gloomy, and mainly rainless in Baku and Absheron peninsula on March 24.

Report says, citing the National Hydrometeorology Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, that light fog forecasted in the morning.

South-east wind will blow.

The temperature on the Absheron peninsula will be +6 to +9° C at night and +13 to +17 C in the daytime, in Baku, +7+9 C at night, and +14+16C in the daytime.

The atmospheric pressure will be a 764 mm mercury column. Relative humidity will make 70-80% at night, and 50-55% in the daytime.

In the country’s regions, the weather will be dry. However, short-term rain is expected in some mountainous areas in the evening. Fog is predicted in some places. East wind will blow. The air temperature will make +3 to +8 at night, +15 to +20 C in the daytime, in the mountains from -2 to +3 C at night, +5 to +10 C in the daytime.

The weather will be changeable cloudy, occasionally gloomy, and mainly rainless in Baku and Absheron peninsula on March 22.

Report says, citing the National Hydrometeorology Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, that drizzle is predicted in some places in the daytime, fog is forecasted in the morning.

North-east wind will blow.

The temperature on the Absheron peninsula will be +6 to +8 C at night and +10 to +13 C in the daytime, in Baku, 6-8C at night, and 11-13C in the daytime.

The atmospheric pressure will 765 mm mercury column. Relative humidity will make 80-90% at night, and 60-70% in the daytime.

According to the medical-meteorological forecast, mild fluctuations of meteorological factors are expected on March 22 on the Absheron peninsula, which is favorable for weather-sensitive people.

In the country’s regions, rain is expected. In the Lankaran-Astara zone, the rain is expected to intensify. In the second half of the day, the weather will mainly be rainless. Fog is predicted in some places. East wind will blow. The air temperature will make +4 to +9 at night, +13 to +18 C in the daytime, in the mountains from 0 to -5 C at night, 5 to +10 C in the daytime.

Azerbaijan National Art Museum will be closed for visits until March 27, 2020 amid coronavirus spread.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11. Several countries are currently working on a vaccine against the new virus.

National Museum of Art invites everyone to go on an exciting tour and see its unique collection without leaving home, after downloading the special apps: App Store, Google Play.

Founded in 1937, the museum consists of two buildings standing next to each other.

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

The museum  collection covers a vast span of time: archaeological vessels date from the 6-4 millennia B.C., which were discover on the territory of the different regions of Azerbaijan such as Khanlar, Mingechaur and others, 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.

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 at the museum.

The second edifice built in 1885 houses Eastern art, represented particularly by Persian, Turkish, Chinese and Japanese art.

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.

Memory of prominent poet and musician Vagif Samadoghlu has been honored in Russia.

The 80th anniversary of the birth of playwright was marked at the Central House of Journalists.

The event was organized by the Azerbaijani Embassy in Russia, the International Fund for Turkic Culture and Heritage and the Azerbaijani Writers Union.

In his remarks, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbuloghlu noted that Vagif Samadoghlu was also an excellent pianist. He also successfully represented Azerbaijan in PACE.

The Ambassador spoke about his friendship with great poet and his brother.

Chairman of the Azerbaijan Writers Union, People's writer Anar Rzayev shared his memories of his friend Vagif Samadoghlu.

" We studied at the same time in Moscow. I studied at script courses, while he was in a graduate school at the conservatory. When I talk about Vagif, it seems that I am talking about myself because our creative lives are intertwined. I wrote four articles about him, including the preface to his two books. He also composed songs for all my performances and films," he said.

The poet's spouse Nushaba Babayeva-Vakilova expressed her gratitude to the event organizers.

She emphasized that the poet's heritage continues in his books, poems, music. Vagif Samadoghlu Center and medal named after him were created as well.

Next, secretary of the Azerbaijan Writers Union (Moscow branch) read her poem dedicated to Vagif Samadoghlu.

Azerbaijani students of the Shchukin Theater Institute - pianists Riad Mammadov and Nazkhanum Dadasheva, actors Kamran Yunis and Khazar Suleymanli presented poems and songs, written in the poet’s words.

Vagif Samadoghlu published his first literary collection "Seven Poems" in 1963.

Since 1970, he was a member of the Azerbaijan Writers Union. From 1963 to 1971, Vagif  worked as a piano teacher at the Azerbaijan State Conservatory.

In 1968-1971, he headed the editorial board of the arts of the Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia. In 1982-1985 he was the head of the literary part of the Azerbaijanfilm Studio. His talent as a playwright and poet was fully revealed in the 90s, after publishing such books as  "Happiness of the day", "God, I am here ..." and "Far Green Island".