Mahmud Taghiyev (, 11 June 1923–21 November 2001) was an Azerbaijani painter, Honored Art Worker of the

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Biography

Mahmud Taghiyev was born on 11 June 1923 in

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. After graduating from Azerbaijan State School of Art in 1941, he studied at

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, in 1949–1953, and studied at the Leningrad Institute of Art, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E.Repin in 1953–1956. Mahmud Taghiyev was married to painter Khalida Safarova in 1946 and had been a member of the

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since that year. He died on 20 November 2001 in

Creativity

The main themes of Mahmud Taghiyev's early creativity were

still life A still life (: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, human-m ...

and

landscape paintings A landscape is the visible features of an area of Terrestrial ecoregion, land, its landforms, and how they integrate with Nature, natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Diction ...

. He had been researching industrial and agricultural topics since the 1960s. The artist described the main points of the construction of Soviet buildings in Azerbaijan. These included descriptions of the

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and Sumgait Aluminum Plant. M.Taghiyev had continued to explore

portrait A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better r ...

genre during these years and had particularly appealed to the historical portrait genre. "Apricots" (1969), "Figs" (1974), "Balcony" (1987), "Still Life", "Spring Flowers" (1993), "Tulips", "Apples" (1993), "Majnun", "Leyli", "Flowers in the vase", "Spring in the mountains", "Baku", "Oil refinery plant lights", "Avarchakan", "Sleep", "Naked", "Dada Gorgud", "Samad Vurgun", "Seven beautiful" are famous works of the painter. Taghiyev's exhibitions were held in

(together with Khalida Safarova in 1947, 1958, 1969, 1993), and in

(with Kh.Safarov in 1990 and 1988). His works have been exhibited in

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and

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Family

*Brother of

Taghi Taghiyev Taghi Taghiyev (; 7 November 1917 – 27 June 1993) was an Azerbaijani painter. He was awarded the title of People's Artists of the Azerbaijan SSR. Early life and education Taghi Taghiyev was born on 7 November 1917 in Baku, Russian Empire (now ...

*Father of Akram Taghiyev *Husband of Khalida Safarova

Awards

*Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR — 1 December 1982 *Diploma of the 1st Biennial of the

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n Republics (

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) — 1986 *3rd prize at the Contest of "Contemporary Art in Azerbaijan" (It was organized by the UN Office in

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in Baku) — 1996

References

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