2024-05-21 12:23:22
As a part of the venture “Conversations on Tradition and Artwork”, an exhibition and lecture by Rustam Huseynov concerning the works of the gifted Russian artist Grigory Gagarin devoted to Azerbaijan was held, Day.Az reviews.
On the opening, the pinnacle of the Russian Home in Baku, Irek Zinnurov, famous the importance of the occasion for additional constructing bridges of tradition and historical past between Azerbaijan and Russia.
Diplomat, officer and gifted artist Prince Grigory Gagarin spent a number of years in Azerbaijan within the mid-Nineteenth century. His powers of commentary, curiosity and expertise have been embodied in quite a lot of work, lithographs, drawings and images, wherein he sketched in nice element the structure, nature and lifetime of Azerbaijan within the mid-Nineteenth century.
Rustam Huseynov spoke concerning the drawings of Grigory Gagarin, essentially the most attention-grabbing instances from his biography and the destiny of a few of his works. The lecture confirmed intimately his work of the unpreserved historic monuments of Azerbaijan and their interiors.
Guests have been introduced with an exhibition of reproductions of works by Grigory Gagarin; the best curiosity of the viewers was aroused by his sketches of nationwide costumes of various areas of Azerbaijan. Throughout his travels, Grigory Gagarin beloved to sketch individuals and their garments, and at this time these works, along with their creative worth, are of nice significance for historians of nationwide costume, restorers and anthropologists.