Khojakhmet Kongyrkhodzhaevich Khodzhikov was a Soviet Kazakh artist, caricaturist, and illustrator, and one of the pioneers of Kazakh folk art. He was born in 1910, and his father was an educator and scientist, while his mother was a painter and costumer.

During the 1920s, he studied in the Vkhutemas ("Higher Art and Technical Studios") Russian state art and technical school in Moscow. Its workshops were established by a decree from Lenin. Khojakhmet studied on preparatory courses for the nationals of the Soviet East.

A drawing of Khojakhmet. His brother Kulakhmet has better preserved images, and he appears when you search for Khojakhmet :(

After his studies, he drifted between jobs as an illustrator-caricaturist for newspapers (1928-1930); as a painter for the Central State Museum of Kazakhstan, and the Institute of National Culture; and as the lead art director for Zhambyl Regional Kazakh Drama Theatre named after Abay (although the Drama Theatre wasn't called that during his tenure there in the 30s), which was in Dzhambul/Aulie-Ata (now called Taraz).

He was repressed in 1938 and only returned to Moscow in 1943. From 1944 to 1953 he worked as the decorator in the kinostudio Kazakhfilm.

His easel works are displayed in the State Museum of Arts named after A. Kasteyev in Almaty, and other art museums and funds. Unfortunately, few of his works are archived online. From the description of the cited encyclopaedia, his work features themes of working labourers and peasants. In his idyllic works, such as "Night in the Fisherman's Kolkhoz", "Boats on the Shore", and "Landscape with Mountains", he poetically eulogized the simple life of Kazakh auls.

He also authored more than 100 linoprints with satirical depictions of hot topics of the day. It is unfortunate that his work and cultural fingerprint, which was known to the Soviet people of Kazakhstan and the USSR, was just as ephemeral as the Soviet Union itself, and that no publicly-accessible archive exists of his works and that of hundreds of other excellent Soviet artists and producers.

Some of his works: "In A Yurt"

The aforementioned "Mountain Landscape"

"Zhambyl with the Red Army Soldiers"

"Before the Storm"

Here is one of the better archives of his works

(it was definitely not unmoderated)

https://archive.ph/oneNx

Every last one of you miserable fucks have perpetuated this lie and created this false reality where you have convinced yourself that Eternity is bad. All based on lies... Now, we are going to fucking destroy you!

That is how it appears in the State Museum of Arts named after A. Kasteev, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. A little bit about the author...

From 1929 to 1931, Kasteev studied the arts in the Almaty studio of Russian painter Nikolai Gavrilovich Khludov. Khludov was the founder of the first school of artistry in Kazakhstan, which opened in 1921. It was foundational to the development of arts in Kazakhstan and Kyrgizstan.

Kasteev continued his studies from 1934 to 1937 in Moscow, in the art studio named after Nadezhda Krupskaya, the Russian revolutionary and wife of Lenin.

He was proclaimed the People's Artist of the Kazakh SSR in 1944, owing to him being the premier Kazakh artist and watercolorist. The Almaty state museum was renamed in his honour in 1984.

The painting "Kapchagai Hydroelectric Power Station", from an online archive.

This landscape depicts the Kapchagai hydro power plant (built 1965-1970), which is cradled on the Ili river in Almaty.

Here are some photos of the HPP:

Kasteev was the Chairman of the Union of Artists of Kazakhstan for a period. He was also a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Kazakh SSR of the 4th–6th convocations.

His selfportrait was reproduced on the postage stamps of Kazakhstan in 2004. Many of his paintings also appear on postage stamps.

Artist Kamil Mullashev is closely linked to three nations: China, Russia, and Kazakhstan.
He was born in Urumqi on 27 of October, 1944 and took his first steps within the arts; in Russia he received his higher professional art education, and in 1972 he entered the painting department of the Moscow State Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov; and
Kazakhstan - which is associated with most of the life and work of the artist.

Youth. The central part of the triptych "Earth and Time. Kazakhstan".

Fame found him quickly. His thesis, the triptych "Earth and Time. Kazakhstan" was acquired by the State Tretyakov Gallery after its exhibition at the All-Union Exhibition. It was reproduced many times.

Bread strada. The right part of the triptych "Earth and Time. Kazakhstan".

The artist succinctly and meaningfully embodied the image of the republic, identifying three main components in it: oil, virgin land, and space.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16524651

Without paywall: https://archive.ph/xAJv5

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