Jalal Garyaghdi

Jalal Maharram oglu Garyagdi was an Azerbaijani monumentalist sculptor and Peoples Artist of Azerbaijan . He was one of the pioneer monumentalist sculptors of Azerbaijan, along with Fuad Abdurahmanov.

Jalal Garyaghdi was born on June 2, 1914, in Shusha. He was keen on painting and modeling in school years. After graduating from the secondary school, he was sent to Baku and entered Azerbaijan State College of Arts. Such eminent Russian realist artists as Gerasimov, Pridatok and Kosichkin taught at that school at the time. The latter had a great role in the development of Garyaghdis interest in landscape painting. While studying at the college, he attended the studios of Yelizaveta Tripolskaya and Pinhas Sabsai. After graduating from college in Baku, he entered the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, where he was admitted in the class of a talented sculptor and pedagogue professor Iakob Nikoladze , in 1934. Nikoladzes teaching system was based on thorough and attentive study of landscape. He helped Garyaghdi develop the skill of seeing nature and giving it sharp plastic forms. Results of Nikoladzes system are reflected in earlier works of Garyaghdi. Even during his education, he made a bas

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