Tofig Mirhashim oghlu Javadov (Mirjavadov) (, February 7, 1925 — August 20, 1963) was an Azerbaijani painter.
Biography
Tofig Javadov was born on February 7, 1925, in
Baku
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.
He served in
Soviet Army
The Soviet Ground Forces () was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992. It was preceded by the Red Army.
After the Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991, the Ground Forces remained under th ...
from 1945 to 1948. From 1948 to 1952 he studied at the painting faculty of the Azerbaijan State School of Art named after
Azim Azimzade. Azerbaijani artists such as Ayyub Mammadov, Abdul Khalig,
Ayyub Huseynov and Baba Aliyev were his teachers.
T. Javadov died on August 20, 1963, at the Chepelyova station of the Moscow–Serpukhov electric train.
He was the brother of
Javad Mirjavadov
Javad Mirjavadov (January 19, 1923, Baku – June 24, 1992, Tiraspol) was an Azerbaijani painter. He was honored as a Distinguished Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1988. After the artist's death, numerous solo exhibitions of his work were held in ...
.
Career
Tofig Javadov began the period of
neorealism in the second half of the 1950s. The neorealism period manifests itself in paintings of workers dedicated to oil and heavy industry. His works such as "Oilmen", "Industrial landscape", "Operator girl", "Oilman", "Steel founder workshop", "Portrait of steel founder" are the products of this period.
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From 1955 to 1956, the "Buzovna" period began in Tofig Javadov's career. During this period, the artist created his "Street in Buzovna", "Village landscape", "Buzovna pass" and other Absheron landscapes from this series. In 1959–1961 he created the work "Self-Portrait". In 1963, together with Rasim Babayev and Fazil Najafov, he designed the children's magazine "Goyarchin". He created his last major work, "The Wind", in 1963.][
]
References
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Azerbaijani painters
1925 births
1963 deaths
Soviet painters