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Tahir Salahov (born 1928, Baku) is an Azerbaijani painter and draughtsman. He is Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts, Hero of Socialist Labour, Peopleu2019s Artist of the USSR, Azerbaijan and Russia
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Tahir Salahov (born 1928, Baku) is an Azerbaijani painter and draughtsman. His father Teymur Salahov had been a victim of Stalin's repressions, having been arrested in 1937 and executed shortly after. His mother Sona was left to bring up four children on her own but the family didn't learn of their father's death until 1956 after Stalin's death. Tahir Salahov studied at the Azimzade Art College in Baku in 1945–1950 and the Surikov Moscow Art Institute in 1951–1957. Salahov won an early recognition: his diploma work, The Shift is Over, was exhibited in 1957 at the Moscow All-Union Art Exhibition and received public and critical acclaim. He became one of the leading representatives of the so-called "severe style" (Russian: "суровый стиль"), a trend in Soviet art of the 1960s that aimed to set off a hard, publicist, realist view against the ceremonial "polished reality" of the Joseph Stalin era.
Salahov’s compositions on the life and work of the Baku oil-workers (e.g. "Repair Men", 1961, Mustafayev Azerbaijan State Museum of Art, Baku) and portraits, e.g., of Azerbaijani composer Kara Karayev (1960, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow), and Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1976, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow), are characterized by a forcefulness and lack of idealization. Salahov chose a sparing palette of contrasting red, black, light- and dark-grey tones and gave colored plains a decorative function. His later works are more peaceful and lyrically contemplative, and Eastern influences are more apparent, as in Portrait of Grandson Dan (1983, Azerbaijan State Museum of Art), in which the composition and colouring are subordinate to the flowing rhythms of Eastern medieval miniatures. His lines became smoother and more melodious, his palette more sophisticated. Many of his most successful works are associated with his impressions of foreign countries (e.g., Mexican Corrida; 1969, Mustafayev Azerbaijan State Museum of Art). He also produced expressive drawings and stage designs
Tahir Salahov is a winner of numerous prizes, awards and titles, including the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2012), Knight of the Honorable French Order “Art and Literature” (2009). More than 700 items including the canvases by Tahir Salahov’s brush are exhibited in the house-museum of the artist.
Caspian Sea today - the central part of Country Lights Triptych 2007
Taking into account Salahov`s own proposal to donate its own collection of paintings and personal archive to the state, the Cabinet was tasked with undertaking measures to establish Tahir Salahov`s house-museum. Tahir Salahov’s house-museum is operating in Baku since 2011. Salahov, is one of the most prominent representatives of the Azerbaijani art.
The museum features some 735 works from the artist, including his outstanding paintings, personal items, a collection of carpets and photo archive. The three-floor museum has a memorial part. A large part of the exhibition shows the artist’s creative work. The master’s studio is located on the top floor. The address of the venue is Ilyas Efendiyev street, 55.
