Tour to Nukus - Samarkand Tours Operator – 998998520077
Tour to Nukus
This is a one-day tour, perfect for
filling up an extra day with a visit to the Savitsky Museum. Nukus is
surrounded by three deserts (Karakum, Kyzylkum, and the Ustyurt Plateau), yet
this small museum has one of the world’s leading collections of Soviet
avant-garde art, plus an excellent ethnographic collection detailing the
artistry and creativity of the people of Central Asia. This is due in large
part to the work of the museum’s founder, Igor Savitsky, who arrived in
Karakalpakstan as part of an archaeological expedition, and stayed to found the
museum and fill its halls with exhibits and paintings. Take a short trip outside
of Nukus to the Mizdakhan Necropolis and the fortress of Gyaur-Kala, both
famous landmarks of a more historical character.
filling up an extra day with a visit to the Savitsky Museum. Nukus is
surrounded by three deserts (Karakum, Kyzylkum, and the Ustyurt Plateau), yet
this small museum has one of the world’s leading collections of Soviet
avant-garde art, plus an excellent ethnographic collection detailing the
artistry and creativity of the people of Central Asia. This is due in large
part to the work of the museum’s founder, Igor Savitsky, who arrived in
Karakalpakstan as part of an archaeological expedition, and stayed to found the
museum and fill its halls with exhibits and paintings. Take a short trip outside
of Nukus to the Mizdakhan Necropolis and the fortress of Gyaur-Kala, both
famous landmarks of a more historical character.
The Karakalpak
State Museum, on the corner of Karakalpakstan and Dosliq/ Presidencia
Streets, offers many wide-ranging insights into the region. The first hall
concentrates on the region's dying or dead natural history, with satellite maps
of the Aral Sea taken from 1957-1988 and stuffed examples of extinct species
that once inhabited the reedy marshes of the Oxus delta and the stony desert of
the Ust'urt plateau.
State Museum, on the corner of Karakalpakstan and Dosliq/ Presidencia
Streets, offers many wide-ranging insights into the region. The first hall
concentrates on the region's dying or dead natural history, with satellite maps
of the Aral Sea taken from 1957-1988 and stuffed examples of extinct species
that once inhabited the reedy marshes of the Oxus delta and the stony desert of
the Ust'urt plateau.
The highlight of
Nukus is the recently relocated Igor Savitsky Museum, home to one of
the finest collections of Soviet avant-garde art from the 1920s and 30s; an age
of relative artistic freedom before the demands from the 'centre' changed in
the mid-1930s and Stalinist socialist realism became the only acceptable form
of Soviet art.
Nukus is the recently relocated Igor Savitsky Museum, home to one of
the finest collections of Soviet avant-garde art from the 1920s and 30s; an age
of relative artistic freedom before the demands from the 'centre' changed in
the mid-1930s and Stalinist socialist realism became the only acceptable form
of Soviet art.
Nukus's
backwater obscurity enabled Savitsky to collect a wide spread of artistic life,
from local folk art to Russian icons, at a time when the more celebrated
museums in Moscow and St Petersburg had their wrists ideologically tied.
backwater obscurity enabled Savitsky to collect a wide spread of artistic life,
from local folk art to Russian icons, at a time when the more celebrated
museums in Moscow and St Petersburg had their wrists ideologically tied.
Like a ruby in
the dust, the Igor Savitsky Museum (also known simply as Nukus Museum) holds
the worlds second-largest collection of Russian avant-garde paintings after the
Russian Museum in St Petersburg. It also has one of the largest exhibitions of
archaeological finds and folk art anywhere in central Asia. Today the museum
holds some 80,000 exhibits ranging from the Khorezmian art of Toprak Kala to
Karakalpak cubism.
the dust, the Igor Savitsky Museum (also known simply as Nukus Museum) holds
the worlds second-largest collection of Russian avant-garde paintings after the
Russian Museum in St Petersburg. It also has one of the largest exhibitions of
archaeological finds and folk art anywhere in central Asia. Today the museum
holds some 80,000 exhibits ranging from the Khorezmian art of Toprak Kala to
Karakalpak cubism.
The museum is
divided into five galleries. Uzbek Art of the 1920s and 1930s is a
comprehensive survey of schools from realism to avant-garde, and the gallery
includes the work of both Uzbek artists and foreign artists painting in
Uzbekistan.
divided into five galleries. Uzbek Art of the 1920s and 1930s is a
comprehensive survey of schools from realism to avant-garde, and the gallery
includes the work of both Uzbek artists and foreign artists painting in
Uzbekistan.
The works show
the important interplay of influences from East and West: architecture and
decorative arts are drawn from Uzbekistan's Islamic traditions; artists such as
Benkov, Koravay and Kashina depict the region's ancient cities; Nikolayev
imaginatively blends the techniques of Italian masters and Russian iconography.
There are also works of Impressionism, post-Impressionism and Futurism.
the important interplay of influences from East and West: architecture and
decorative arts are drawn from Uzbekistan's Islamic traditions; artists such as
Benkov, Koravay and Kashina depict the region's ancient cities; Nikolayev
imaginatively blends the techniques of Italian masters and Russian iconography.
There are also works of Impressionism, post-Impressionism and Futurism.
The most famous
gallery is 20th century Russian Avant-Garde, a smorgasbord of
post-revolutionary works that narrowly survived Stalin's curtailment of
creative freedom and prescription of 'Social Realism' as the only acceptable
form of Soviet art in 1932. Art that did not conform with Stalin's ideal was
repressed and its artists persecuted.
gallery is 20th century Russian Avant-Garde, a smorgasbord of
post-revolutionary works that narrowly survived Stalin's curtailment of
creative freedom and prescription of 'Social Realism' as the only acceptable
form of Soviet art in 1932. Art that did not conform with Stalin's ideal was
repressed and its artists persecuted.
Savitsky acquired works by persecuted artists (including M Sokolov, the
murdered V Komarovskiy, and the Amaraveila group) and also paintings by then unknown
artists. The works of artists such as R Mazel, P Sokolov, A Sofronova, E
Ermilova-Platova and K Red'ko were not recognised, let alone appreciated, by
anyone else until the late 1960s.
murdered V Komarovskiy, and the Amaraveila group) and also paintings by then unknown
artists. The works of artists such as R Mazel, P Sokolov, A Sofronova, E
Ermilova-Platova and K Red'ko were not recognised, let alone appreciated, by
anyone else until the late 1960s.
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Uzbekistan
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