Background

Khalida Safarova was born on August 25, 1926 in Ganja, Azerbaijan.

Education

Khalida Safarova had great enthusiasm for painting and the desire to create never left her. Her constantly increasing skill forced the teenage Khalida to move to Baku in 1941 when she was admitted to Baku Art School to receive higher professional education. She graduated in 1944.

In 1949 Safarova was admitted to the art faculty of the All-Union Cinematography Institute (now the All-Russian State University of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov (VGIK)) in Moscow. She graduated from there in 1955. During her years of education there, she had studied in the class of a talented teacher and great artist of impressionist spirit Yury Ivanovich Pimenov. Moreover, Khalida Safarova’s diploma work - the illustrations to the poem by Nizami Ganjavi ‘Khosraw and Shirin’ - was among the best works by the graduates presented at the exhibition of the USSR Arts Academy and exhibited in Prague and Paris during the celebration of VGIK anniversary in 1956.

Career

Khalida Safarova always participated in Republic and All-Union exhibitions. She gained success and recognition for her early paintings - landscapes and still works - exhibited at the first personal exhibition in 1947.

Khalida Safarova’s works are different for thematic interests and plastic embodiment but similar for their positive, life-asserting, bright start. Each period in Khalida Safarova’s creative activity discovers a completely new side of this painter: she is seen as a fine lyric with a delicate perception of the beauty of nature and a thoughtful portraitist who is able to feature an image of a model and fill it with the vital truth in a vivid and lively manner. Her thematic pictures about sports stand out with their unexpected and interesting composition which she always feels well. Her artworks and graphics illustrating the poems by Nizami Ganjavi, as well as her compositions dedicated to the native land are filled with national motives. Her artworks and graphics about France, which are impressionistic in their spirit and plastic solution, are among the best series painted by Khalida Safarova.

Khalida Safarova's works have been exhibited in Russia, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Algeria, Turkey, Israel, and other countries. Her solo exhibitions were organized in Baku in 1984 and in Moscow in 1990. In 2003 she had a solo exhibition in the French Embassy in Baku.

Achievements

• Khalida Safarova was best known as an outstanding painter. Compositions "The Cyclist", "The Token", "The Yacht-Club", portraits of L. Velikova and M. Rahmanzade, the portrait of Mahmud Tagiyev, "My native land", "The sunny land", "Montmartre’s flowers", "Mistral" and many others are considered the landmark works of Safarova.
  
  She was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1977. In 1989 she was awarded the title of People’s Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.
  
  Besides, her works have been exhibited worldwide, including Russia, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Algeria, Turkey, and other countries.

Works

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  • Freedom

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1980
  • Our Mountains

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Landscape

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Guba

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Landscape

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • On the Edge of the Village

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Trees

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Morning on the Lake

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Ships at Sea

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Still Life with Watermelon and Flowers

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1954
  • Still Life

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1945
  • Landscape

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1946
  • Autumn in the Park

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Still Life with Flowers

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1955
  • April

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Museum

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1960
  • Museum

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1960
  • Grape Picking

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1984
  • Melons

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1970
  • Lemon Pickers

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1970
  • Golden Autumn

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1987
  • Sunny Land

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Autumn

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Turkish Carnations

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Novruz

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1990
  • Gazelles

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Polo

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1970
  • Polo

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1970
  • Polo

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1970
  • Polo Players

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1990
  • Polo Players

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1990
  • Different Generation

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1967
  • Workers

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1960
  • Yachts

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1964
  • Canoes

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Canoes

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Boats

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • At the Port

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1979
  • Yacht Club

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1961
  • To the Competition

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1970
  • Sailing Boats

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1980
  • Competition on the Sea

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • On the Caspian

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1971
  • Sailing Boats

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1970
  • Cycle Race

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1963
  • At the Side of the Road

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1979
  • After Training

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Race

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1970
  • At the Stadium

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1970
  • High Jump

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1972
  • Field Hockey

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1979
  • Glory

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Before Training

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1966
  • Cyclist

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Gymnasts

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1970
  • Field Hockey

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1979
  • Wrestling

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Football

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Football

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1960
  • MaKetue^Qiateau d’lf

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1985
  • Around Arles

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1985
  • Cafe "Kavas"

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1985
  • Quiet Comer. Paris

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1985
  • Evening in Paris

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1985
  • Montmartre Boulevard

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1985
  • Eiffel Tower

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1995
  • Notre-Dame Church

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1985
  • Notre-Dame de la Garde

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1985
  • Daudet’s Windmill, Arles

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1985
  • Bank of the Seine

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art )

    1998
  • Garden Landscape

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Montmartre. Paris

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1985
  • Montmartre. Paris

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1985
  • Arc de Triomphe. Paris

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1995
  • Moulin Rouge. Paris

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1995
  • Paris

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1985
  • Bank of the Seine

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1998
  • Vineyard in Arles

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1985
  • Paul Cezanne’s House

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1985
  • Flower Shop

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1995
  • Provence. Mistral

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1985

Interests

• poetry, music

Connections

Khalida Safarova married Mahmud Taghiyev in 1946.

Spouse:

Mahmud Taghiyev

References

• "Servet" series of albums. The National Heritage project. As part of The National Heritage project implemented by Xalq Bank, Azerbaijan National Museum of Art under the head of Chingiz Farzaliyev prepared the "Servet" series of albums dedicated to the masters of Azerbaijani art.
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