Saturday, April 18, 2020

Gabdulla Tukay Book from 1986


This is a beautiful book full of images so it is scanned at 600dpi and rather large. 
in Tatar (Cyrillic) and Russian.






Saturday, April 4, 2020

Ornamentation of Kazan Tatars










Tatiana Makarova - Hippopotamus Party


Tatiana Makarova is a famous Russian Artist. She was born on July 4,1952 in Tatarstan, Russia. She graduated from The School Of Arts in Perm in 1971. And in 1979 she was graduated from Pedagogical Institute of Nizhny Taghil (Ural), Faculty of Graphic Arts.

Since 1995, she is a member of the Union of Artists in Russia.

Creative range: hot enamel, graphics, collage, batik, mail art, painting.

Since 1977, Tatiana Makarova participates in city, zonal, all-Russian and international exhibitions. The artist has about 20 personal exhibitions.
Makarova's works are in collections of museums and galleries in Russia, Hungary, Italy, Germany, New Zealand, as well as in private collections in many countries around the world.
Since 2002 she has been taking an active part in international practical symposium on hot enamels in Yaroslavl (Russia) and Kecskemet (Hungary).
Tatyana Makarova is a traveler who travels around the world with equal interest, and is easy on the rise. She was born in Tatarstan, has studied first in Perm, then in Nizhny Tagil, as well at one time lived and worked in Nizhnekamsk.The wind of good wanderings brought her once to Yaroslavl.The city she managed to learn and love, as she repeatedly took part in the seminars of the International Creative Center "Enamelis", created by the People's Artist of Russia with Alexander Karikh.

Ilyas Aidarov


 
*Ilyas AidarovThe artist/architect was born in 1956 in Kazan. He graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute. Corresponding Fellow of Russian Academy of Arts | People’s Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan | Honoured Artist of Tajikistan | Member of the International Academy of Art and Culture | Member of the USSR Union of Architects | Member of Artists Union of Russia (MOSH) | Member of Moscow Union of Artists (MSH) | Member of Artists Union of the Republic of Tatarstan Winner of the Second Moscow International Festival of Arts “Tradition and Modernity” in nomination “For the originality and individuality of writing style” Ilyas has been awarded the top state and communal awards in the arts field. For an unprecedented exhibition in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has been honored entry into the Guinness Book of Records (Russian branch).

The Artist’s works are found in the following museum collections:
State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan · National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan · Collections in the Presidential Palace of the Kazan Kremlin · Collections in National Cultural Centre “Kazan” – Kazan · Museum Galiya Kaybitskoy – Kaybitsy, Republic of Tatarstan · Museum Salih Saydashev – Kazan · Museum Gabdulla Tukai – Uralsk, Kazakhstan · Collections of the Kazan State Conservatory (Academy) N.G. Zhiganov · Museum of Vladimir Vysotsky – Moscow as well as in private and corporate collections in Russia and abroad.