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Cover: Tower
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Left: "Whirlwind of the Century," by Hamza Abdullayev, oil on canvas, 90 x 79 cm, 1999 Right: Cover of Azerbaijan International magazine, Winter 2001 (AI 9.4), by Hamza Abdullayev An artist cannot change the world, but he can speak of universal truths through the medium of his paints and brushes and, thereby, help cultures meet each other across territorial boundaries and across the ages of time. Note: An interview with Hamza is featured alongside some of his vividly colored art works in our Summer 1999 issue, "Colors of the Century", AI 7.2. SEARCH at AZER.com. Additional samples of his work can be viewed at AZgallery.org. Contact Hamza at his studio: (994-12) 75-37-17, or home: (994-12) 95-67-15. ____ From Azerbaijan International (9.4) Winter 2001. © Azerbaijan International 2002. All rights reserved. Back to Index
AI 9.4 (Winter 2001) |
I've always been interested
in ancient cultures as depicted in the ancient monuments of Egypt,
Sumer and Babylonia. For a long time I was trying to think how
to paint some of the ancient legends, myths of these ancient
cultures. I didn't quite know how to do it. Then, quite by chance
in the summer of 1998, my sons were building a sand tower down
at the beach at Mardakan, not far from Baku. As soon as I saw
it, the concept of abandoned towns rising from the earth, ancient
towers, and people came to life as if they were real. In a very
short time, I finished painting four fairly large-sized canvases
on this theme. 
