(Social) Realism: Turkmenistan Art

Izzat Nazarovich Klychev (КЛЫЧЕВ Иззат) (1923-2006)

Born Oct. 10, 1923, in the aul (village) of Ialkym, Bairam-Ali Raion, Turkmen SSR. Soviet painter. People’s Artist of the Turkmen SSR (1964); corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1970).

Klychev studied under B. V. Ioganson, Iu. M. Neprintsev, I. A. Serebrianyi, and other instructors at the I. E. Repin Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture from 1947 to 1953. He painted decorative and brightly colored genre scenes, portraits, and still lifes, in which a striving for massive form is combined with attention to specific details. Klychev’s works in the Museum of Fine Arts of the Turkmen SSR in Ashkabad include For a Better Life (1957), Gozel’ (1959), and The New Birth (1972). His paintings Portrait of O. Ersaryev (1961) and Tomorrow Is a Holiday (1972) are registered at the Board of Exhibitions of the Artists’ Union of the USSR in Moscow. Klychev also painted the series My Turkmenia (1963–65; State Prize of the USSR, 1967), the triptych Day of Rejoicing (1967), and V. I. Lenin (1969–70).

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Mamed Mamedov (1938-1985)
A graduate of the I.E. Repin Leningrad State Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and a student of Yevsey Moiseenko, Mamedov returned to his native land in the mid-1970s after refusing a tempting proposal to teach at his alma mater. He began his professional life at the Sh. Rustaveli State Art School and within just a year the young master became a member of the Union of Artists of Turkmenistan.

An honoured artist of Turkmenistan who was awarded the Makhtumkuli State Prize, Mamedov was in love with his native land and his people his entire life. His paintings are found in the collections of the National Tretyakovskiy Gallery, the Museum of Arts of the Peoples of the East and the National Museum of Turkmenistan.

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