4-Day Fine ART Museum

           Today  is  the  fourth  day  of  our practice  lesson. Today  we  visited  The Fine Art Museum

THE FINE ART MUSEUM 

In  the  Bukhara Museum  of  Fine  art you can  get acquainted  with  the  expositions of arts  and  crafts. Works  of  talented  painters, graphic artists, and  sculptors  of  Uzbekistan are  presented  in the expositions  of  fine  atrs. The  best  works of  famous  Bukharian  artists,  painters,  sculptors,  graphic artists, miniatures  of  People`s  Atrist  of  Uzbekistan  are  demonstrated  in  the  picture  gallery.

The FINE ART MUSEUM The building was constructed in 1912 by the local masters Hoji Abdurahim Hayatov and Abdugafur Karaulbegi under the guidance of the Russian engineers Margulis and Sakovich. The first floor of the building housed Savva Morozov's shop. On the second floor there was the branch of the Azov-Donskoy bank. From 1920 up to 1982, this building had placed the department of the State Bank (Gosbank) and other organizations.

The history of the fine arts museum.

Since 1982, the building has been a place for remarkable fine arts collection.

The museum consists of the following exhibitions:

The "Painting and Graphics" exhibition was established on the basis of painting, graphics, and sculpture collections. The exhibition is represented by the works of the Russian artists P. Benkov, Kurzin, and Vilkovir, who visited Central Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It also displays the miniature paintings by Ahmad Donish, the famous Bukharan educator, artist, philosopher, writer and calligrapher, who lived in the second half of the 19th century. One could, too, discover the works by Sadriddin Pochchayev, the well-known miniature-painter and honored artist of Uzbekistan.

The exhibition possesses a number of pictures and sculpture samples by the contemporary Bukharan artists such as B. Salomov, A. Barnoyev, M. Abdullayev, N. Babayev, Z. Saidjanov, B. Gulov, K. Norkhurozov, and others, who by developing traditions of their predecessors represent a peculiar school of national painting and sculpture. While observing their works one could tell that Bukhara and its ancient history and unique culture serve as the main source of inspiration to create their works.