Azhiev Uki (Uke) Azhievich. Soviet and Kazakh artist. Participant of the World War II and participant of the blockade of Leningrad. Member of the Artists Union of the USSR (1959). Honoured Art Worker of Kazakhstan (1985). Laureate of the State Prize of Kazakhstan and independent award ‘Tarlan’. Awarded medals of the USSR. Winner of the State Prize in the field of culture and fine arts named after Shokan Valikhanov, holder of the Order ‘Parasat’, winner of the scholarship of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He was born... далее

Azhiev Uki (Uke) Azhievich. Soviet and Kazakh artist. Participant of the World War II and participant of the blockade of Leningrad. Member of the Artists Union of the USSR (1959). Honoured Art Worker of Kazakhstan (1985). Laureate of the State Prize of Kazakhstan and independent award ‘Tarlan’. Awarded medals of the USSR. Winner of the State Prize in the field of culture and fine arts named after Shokan Valikhanov, holder of the Order ‘Parasat’, winner of the scholarship of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He was born on 23 December 1924 in the village of Kemir-Togan, Kaskelen district, Almaty region in the family of a peasant. In 1938-1939. Azhiev was a student of the Almaty Art School. In 1939, as the most gifted student was sent to the secondary art school of the Academy of Arts. Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War Azhiev goes to the front. Participates in the defence of Leningrad. After demobilisation in 1950 he graduated from the Almaty Art School in the class of painting. Azhiev creates numerous paintings, portraits in oil, writes a large number of watercolour studies and portraits. His watercolours are always refined and exquisite combinations of colours. His art is characterised by socially significant themes of historical and contemporary plan. Azhiev is a master of watercolour painting. The beginning of the creative path of the artist is associated with the creation of paintings, which had in 1950-1960-ies actual content. They were dedicated to virgin lands of the steppe and its people. The author of paintings, portraits of noble people, workers, rural toilers, scientists, young contemporaries: ‘The Journey of Chokan Valikhanov’ (1959), ‘Professor M. Balakaev’ (1962), ‘Student Bakyt’ (1965), ‘In the steppes of Mangyshlak’ (1976), ‘Tabunschitsa’ (1980), ‘Portrait of my wife’ (1995), ‘Picture of Mountains’ (1997) and others. In the gallery of portrait images created by Uke Azhiev, female images attract special attention. Similarity to the original is not the main thing in portrait painting. Based on a deep understanding of nature, the artist is looking for adequate colour and light characteristics. A peculiar solution to the theme of motherhood in the work of Azhiev. Poetic interpretation of national specifics deepens the content of the image, giving it the finest national colouring. Among such works are ‘Kazakh Madonna’ (1979), ‘Mother's Thoughts’ (1983). Among the male especially expressive ‘Portrait of Abylkhan Kasteev’ (1969), ‘Self-Portrait’ (1981) - different in manner of execution, but close in conveying the kinship of souls of artists-creators, whose mission to express the eternal in nature, and beauty in man. Uke Azhiev wrote landscapes with talent. In his trips to Japan, Mongolia, Yugoslavia, Ghana, Nigeria, the artist sought to comprehend the peculiarities of the worldview of the inhabitants of these countries, the originality of nature, architecture, looking for adequate means to express what he saw. Modernity and tradition were reflected in the sketch ‘At the foot of Fuji’ (1971). Watercolours ‘Gobi’ (1976), ‘Bisons’ (1974), ‘Night over Gobi’ (1976) convey the grandeur of the primordial nature of Mongolia, which struck the artist's imagination. The idea of the necessity of harmony in the coexistence of nature and man permeates his remarkable landscapes ‘High Mountain Jailau’ (1964), ‘Jailau Assy’ (1976), ‘At the foot of Khan-Tengri’ (1978) and others. Series of landscapes in Central Asia, Ukraine, Crimea give the opportunity to convey the features of nature in different parts of the former Soviet Union - ‘Street in Samarkand’ (1968), ‘Caravan Saray in Bukhara’ (1966), ‘Desna Coast’ (1964), ‘Gurzuf’ (1964). Uke Azhiev's works are exibited in the Tretyakov Gallery, the London Museum of Architecture and Art (Tate Britain), the State Museum of Art of the Republic of Kazakhstan named after A. Kasteev, other museums of the Republic and CIS countries, Kiev, Baku, Vilnius, Riga, as well as in private collections in France, Italy, Germany, USA, Switzerland, South Korea. According to expert estimates, he created about 10,000 works. скрыть