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Ural Tansykbaevich Tansykbayev (1 January 1904, in

Tashkent Tashkent (), also known as Toshkent, is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uzbekistan, largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of more than 3 million people as of April 1, 2024. I ...

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– 18 April 1974, in Nukus, Karakalpak ASSR) was an Uzbek painter of Kazakh descent. He was named a

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and People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR in the category visual art.

Biography

Tansykbayev attended a

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n- Uzbek school (1916) and graduated from a seven-year school in 1919. Between 1919 and 1921 he worked at a tobacco factory and at a winery. He studied with

n painters and followers of the Peredvizhniki ("Wanderers"), first under Nikolay Vasilyevich Rozanov (1869–1940) in his art studio of Tashkent Art Museum (now Fine Arts Museum of

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) (1924–1928), and later in the Art and Pedagogical Technical School,

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(1928–1929), under Ivan Silovich Goryushkin-Sorokopudov (1873–1954) and Nikolay Filippovich Petrov (1872–1941). There he became interested in

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and the work of the French Expressionist's, influences noticeable in the increased decorativeness and heightened sense of colour in his early work. From 1929 he participated in art exhibitions. Since 1932 he had been Steering Committee Member of the Union of Artists of

. In 1938 he was the stage and costumes designer of the first national Kazakh

ballet Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...

"Kalkaman and Mamir" (music of Vasily Vasilyevich Velikanov) at the Kazakh State Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Alma-Ata, production of the First Kazakh ballerina and choreographer Shara Zhienkulova (1912–1991) (based on the poem "Kalkaman and Mamir" of the historian and poet Şekerim Kudayberdiulı (Shakarim Qudaiberdiulı (1858–1931), the student of Abai Kunanbaiuli). As a member of the Uzbekistan delegation he visited the

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frontlines in 1942. Jointly with artists M. Arinin, S. Cheprakov, and Madra Mandicencio, he made more than 30 monumental paintings for the Uzbek pavilion at All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSKhV) (now All-Russia Exhibition Centre) in

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(1952–1955). He was successively elected corresponding member (1954), and full member of the

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of the

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(1958). That year he was awarded a silver medal at Universal Exhibition in

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Expo '58 (1958) (Exposition universelle et internationale de Bruxelles, Wereldtentoonstelling Brussel 1958 (

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). The theme of his early paintings is connected with the searches for expressive means, forms of reflection of the reality. They are intensive and enriched by their colours, decorative. Since the beginning of the 1950s the main genre in his art had become landscape. Tansykbayev participated in many exhibitions in

, in

and abroad. He died on 18 April 1974.

Awards

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(1 June 1964) * State Hamza Prize (1973) * Three Order of the Red Banner of Labour (6 December 1951, 26 March 1955, 11 January 1957) * Repin State Prize of the

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* Order of Outstanding Merit (22 August 2001)

Museums

Ural Tansykbaev Memorial Museum in Tashkent was opened on 16 January 1981 by his widow Yelizaveta Tansykbaeva. The center of the whole exposition is the studio of master with an easel, which holds the last, unfinished canvas. Besides the studio, the house includes the sitting-room, bedroom and study room, in which the painter loved to write sketches. On the walls of the house, visitors may watch still lifes, sketches – all at the same places as they used to be hanged while the painter was alive. In 1994 the Exhibition Hall was built at the territory of memorial house. The Hall regularly hosts exhibitions of paintings from museum collection, works of modern painters, as well as a constant exposition of Ural Tansykbaev's canvases.

Biography

Awards

Museums

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