Gallery

The White Sun of Karakum

The absolute congeniality of the parts of the triptych - “The White Sun of Karakum”, “The Blue Sun of Karakum”, “The Red Sun of Karakum” in the general nature of the composition, as well as their similarity with the painting “Pharaohs” (1998), reveals a peculiar path of continuous search of the artist, who achieves something new and expressive in each subsequent version of the developed topic.

At Dawn

A noisy crowd of people, riding the carts, donkeys and camels to the bazaar, cluster in a multi-figure scene. This whole scene against the background of a scarlet sky and the reflections of glow is perceived not as a genre motif, but as a symbolic and allegorical expression of optimism, a life-affirming strength of nation. The figures are interpreted freely, lively, naturally without pretentious decorativeness in almost a sketchy manner.

Temptation

The artist admires the fabulously picturesque magnificence, sonority of colorful shades of succulent fruits and handicrafts of applied arts like carpet, metal and ceramic jugs, vases, plates in the still life “Temptation”. This magnificent abundance, materiality of objects are the body of “the triumph of life”. Placed against the background of the picture, a children’s drawing with an image of a man and a woman in front of an apple tree turns out to be a “window” that reveals the meaning of the scene. She and he are perceived as a symbol of ancestors, and therefore, temptation is implied.

B. Amansahatov is keen on painting trees, branches with flowers and fruits. His consistent move of these motifs from the natural perception to their stylized interpretation turns them into a pattern. Ornamentation fills images with symbolic meaning. In this painting structural ornamental combination of pear, quince and pomegranate trees turn them into plastic symbol, plastic metaphor, realizing the idea of constant renewal of nature. Through the motif of lush fertile blooming of nature the artist states happiness and joy of fruitful hearth.

The Hearth of Fruits

In “A tale of two viziers and Anis al-Jalis” Berdiguly Amansahatov got interested in description of Amusement and palace of Pleasure and Images belonging to the caliph of Baghdad Harun ar-Rashid. We see Nur-ad-Din, feasting with his beloved Anis-al-Jalis, the gardener, Sheikh Ibrahim with a jug filled with wine, as well as the Caliph, dressed into merchant’s clothes, who has climbed a tree to observe the happening of his companion, vizier Jafar.

A Tale of Two Viziers and Anis Al-Jalis

The painting “The Royal Hunt” from the series “One thousand and one nights”, done in the “tondo” format, reveals the mysterious world of royal pleasures – a scene of a medieval hunt. It is a dynamic composition in a circle with refined movements of hunters, interpreted in the traditions of oriental miniatures and complemented by a circular frame of floral patterns. This vegetative - ornamental frame gives a theatrical character to the genre plot

Royal Hunt

The Lute Player Leaned Toward Us

Painting’s warm coloring built on brownish tones with splashes of pink contoured by sometimes a thin, sometimes wide dark brown line brings the style of painting closer to the decorativeness of folk art. The scene of leisure of carefree young princes reveals for the viewer behind the silhouette of trees with flexible tweeds. Almost monochrome painting on white canvas is expressive, eloquent and laconic. It follows the strict layout of the genre scene.

The painting “Bakhshi has arrived to us” is one of the most romantic in the series “Carpet Tales”. With the accuracy of life observations, the canvas of B. Amansahatov is devoid of illustrations. Its figurative structure harmoniously combines ancient ornamental motives, reinterpreted by the artist, with new motives born of modernity. The composition is nothing more than a hymn to the rich and varied ornaments of Turkmen carpets. Emotion and nobility of color, built on the contrast of saturated shades of red with a black background, the expressiveness of painting, in tune with the traditions of folk art, put the picture in a number of the best works of the artist.

Bakhshi Has Arrived To Us