Presentation of documentary dedicated to Tahir Salahov
Baku, December 10 (AZERTAC). A presentation of documentary film Colors of Soul took place at the International Mugham Center in Baku. The film was produced on request of the ministry of culture and tourism in Yaddash studio by Ziya Shikhlinski on Togrul Javarly`s script. The documentary is dedicated to People`s Artist of USSR and State Prize winner Tahir Salahov.
Head of the State Film Fund Jamil Guliyev, addressing the ceremony, said that 11 documentaries were shot on the request of the ministry of culture and tourism.
Tahir Salahov is an Azerbaijani painter and draughtsman. He studied at the Azimzade Art College in Baku in 1945-1950 and graduated from the Surikov Moscow Art Institute in 1957. Salahov won an early recognition: his diploma work, The Shift is Over, appeared in 1957 at the Moscow All-Union Art Exhibition and received public and critical acclaim. He became one of the leading representatives of the so-called “severe style”.
Salahov`s canvases dedicated to the life and work of the Baku oil-workers and his portraits of great Azerbaijani personalities, such as the composer Gara Garayev (1960, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow), and Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1976, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow), are characterized by a forcefulness and lack of idealization.
Today Salahov lives in Moscow. He is member of over 20 academies and other creative organizations throughout the world, including academies of art of France, Spain, Germany, Austria etc. His masterpieces are kept in largest museums of Azerbaijan, Russia and Ukraine, as well as private collections.
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