The study of Evolution of Traditional Painting in Uzbekistan

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Considering the rich background of wall painting and miniature in Bukhara school, the study of evolution of painting in Uzbekistan will assist the identification of artistic flows in contemporary painting of Uzbekistan, since contemporary painting in this country is rarely observed by researchers and no serious study has been conducted in Iran or other nations on contemporary painting and flows related to it. To fill a part of this gap authors of this study investigated and analyzed arts in Central Asia with a deeper insight especially Uzbekistan painting which has many things in common with Iran in terms of culture and art.
Results of this study that was analyzed using content analysis method and its data were collected using library studies and assorted websites, showed that contemporary painting in Uzbekistan has developed and lacquer and modern painting raised with keeping tradition. Establishment of art academies and teaching painting principles to art students by artists like Chingiz Akhmarov, SH. Mohammedjanov and N. Kholmatov, has kept the contemporary painting alive via development of techniques, tools, style, themes and keeping local and eastern identity.

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