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Kangarli Behruz (Shamil) Shiralibey
(22.1.1892, Nakhchivan – 7.2.1922, Nakhchivan) – an artist,
painter and graphic. The formation of realist worktable
painting and the formation of portrait and landscape as an
independent genre in Azerbaijan painting is directly related
with Kangarli’s name. When he was a child he survived from
the serious disease and he could hardly hear, therefore he
could not go to school and displays his interest to drawing
and drew the things that he saw on the paper with his child
fantasy. He studied at the School of Painting and Sculpture
attached to the Caucasus Art Tashviq Society in Tbilisi
(1910-1915).
A
rich literary heritage of Kangarli remains. He drew a lot of
portraits, landscapes, still live works etc. that became
attracted with its realist expressions and high
literary-esthetic value. His portraits of the present popular
educated figures and simple people’s (“Old man”, “Georgian”
etc.) differs with subject topicality and the aliveness and
reality of the portraits of a man, woman, boy and a girl who
belong to the group of “Refugees” and its psychological
expression, which is one of the important issues of present
social-political issues. The landscapes contain great part in
his creative activity. The natural beauties (“Shalab”,
“Mountainous View”, Ilanlidag in the moonlight”, “Sunset”,
“Agridag”, “Old fortress”, “Gate in Aliabad village”, “Way to
Yamkhana village”, “Ashabi-kahf mountain” etc.), the cultural
monuments (“Momuna Khatun Tomb”), the seasons (“Autumn”,
“Spring”) are reflected in his landscapes. In 1921, at the first
great exhibition in Azerbaijan, Kangarli’s more than 500 works
were exhibited. Hs works are kept at the State Art Museum of
Azerbaijan, Nakhchivan State Museum of History, Moscow State
Museum of History and private collections.
His
museum was created in Nakhchivan on the basis of the decision of
the Supreme Assembly of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic about
“The memorization of Behruz Kangarli’s name” (May 22, 2001).
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