Have you ever seen a carpet that looks likepaint drips on the wall, a strange figure striving upward, a color music frozen in a silent dance? No? Then read and watch! What could be more conservative in applied art than traditional Persian wool carpets, which have been made for many centuries within the strict framework of form, color and pattern? The question would seem rhetorical. However, there was a person who refuted all ideas about the immutability of the principles of creating these iconic national works of art. He was the Baku artist Faig Ahmed. He combined classics and eclecticism, past and future, plane and volume, warm and round.
It is difficult to say whether oriental carpets have becomelook modern in Faig Ahmed's interpretation, but it is absolutely certain that once you see them in person or in photographs, you will never forget them. It's like not thinking about a white elephant when it lives in your soul. And these amazing works of art immediately and forever conquer the souls of viewers. Admire them yourself.
Art historians are trying to draw some conclusionsintellectual and creative basis for the unusual concept of the Baku master. Some say that in his art he symbolically reflects the social and political processes taking place in the East. Others claim that the modernization of folk traditions gives impetus to a new round of their development. Still others believe that Akhmed is simply experimenting and never knows in advance what will result from mixing geometric shapes, contrasting colors, unusual three-dimensional figures that seem to grow on a plane. But everyone agrees on one thing: this is real art that has yet to be appreciated!
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