Mikayil Abdullayev
{{Short description|Azerbaijani painter (1921–2002)}}
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Mikayil Huseyn oglu Abdullayev (19 December 1921, Baku – 21 August 2002, Baku) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani painter. He was awarded the honorary title of People's Painter of the USSR (1963),{{cite news|url=http://www.respublica-news.az/2010/08/29/11434/|title=Xalq rəssamı Mikayıl Abdullayev|date=28 August 2010|work=Respublika|language=Azerbaijani|accessdate=18 January 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706130833/http://www.respublica-news.az/2010/08/29/11434/|archivedate=6 July 2011}} and People's Painter of the Azerbaijan SSR (1963).{{Cite web |title=Abdullayev Mikayil Hüseyn oğlu |trans-title=Abdullayev Mikayil Huseyn oglu |url=http://azteatr.musigi-dunya.az/file.pl |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=azteatr.musigi-dunya.az}} Abdullayev created a series of paintings entitled Through India.
Biography
Mikayil Huseyn oglu Abdullayev was born 19 December 1921 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union. Abdullayev was an alumnus of the A. Azimzadeh Azerbaijan Painting School (1939) and the Surikov Moscow Art Institute (1949) (now Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture).
During his trips to India,{{cite web|url=http://www.azembassy.in/relation.aspx|title=Azerbaijan India Relations|accessdate=18 January 2011}} Afghanistan, Hungary, Poland, Italy and other countries from 1956 through 71, Abdullayev painted Bengali Girls, Rajasthani Women, An Old Afghan, as well as portraits of Zsigmond Kisfaludi Stróbl, Renato Guttuso, Giacomo Manzù among others. Among portraits of Azerbaijani people, there are those of Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Samad Vurgun, Mirza Fatali Akhundov and Farhad Badalbeyli. Abdullayev's paintings were exhibited in cities such as Paris, London, Berlin, Montreal, Prague, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia, Warsaw, Delhi, Cairo, Brussels. Abdullayev was also the designer of artistic panel in the Nizami Station of Baku Metro.
Notable works
- 1947 – An Evening
- 1948 – Mingachevir Lights
- 1951 – Builders of Happiness
- 1956 – Sevinj
- 1963-65 – On the Fields of Azerbaijan triptych
- 1964 – On the Absheron
- 1982 – Khachmaz Girls
Awards
- Honored worker of arts of the Azerbaijani SSR (1955)
- People's painter of the Azerbaijiani SSR (1960)
- People's Painter of the USSR (1963)
- State Prize of the Azerbaijani SSR (1974)
- Order of Lenin (1959)
- Order of the October Revolution (1972)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (1981)
- Istiglal Order (1997)
References
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External links
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- [http://www.hajibeyov.com/bio/bio_life/abdullayev_mikayil/abdullayev_mikayil_eng/abdullayev_mikayil.html Story of Abdullayev]
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Category:Azerbaijani portrait painters
Category:Recipients of the Istiglal Order
Category:20th-century Azerbaijani painters
Category:Recipients of the Order of Lenin