Byashim Nurali - an innovator in Turkmen art
The museum of the State Cultural Center of Turkmenistan displays an exposition of musical instruments by Bashim Nurali. The rarities, stored for a long time in the bins of the museum, are presented to the public in all their glory.
Byashim Nurali was a man of multifaceted talent. The first national artist of Turkmenistan, poet, singer, honored teacher. Creator of modified, stylized musical instruments - Turkmen gidzhak and dutar.
2020 marks 120 years since the birth of the painter and master, who left a bright mark in the history of national art.
Byashim Nurali was fond of music since childhood, he owned two instruments, dutar and gidzhak. And perhaps his fate would have turned out differently if once in the market where the young man brought the milk he would not have met a man with an album of drawings.
Upon learning that there is a school in Ashgabat where they teach the art of painting, Byashim Nurali became one of its students. The passion for drawing revealed an extraordinary personality in a young man.
Later, a gifted artist without entrance exams was enrolled in the Moscow Higher Artistic and Technical Institute. As a student, Byashim Nurali began to create sketches of stylized musical instruments. Upon returning to his homeland, in consultation with the famous Bakhshis Sakha Dzhepparov, Myly Tachmuradov, the artist developed new models of dutar and gidzhak.
The exhibition dedicated to the artist is not in vain called “Musical Instruments Created by the Master”. It reveals a wide range of talents of Byashima Nurali.
Indeed, in addition to painting, the artist throughout his life created about 40¬ varieties of Turkmen national instruments with a special technique of playing: varied dutars “Main Channel”, “Second Dutar”, “Alt Dutar”, gidzhak in the form of a pipe, children's dutar and many others.
Improving musical instruments, the innovator achieved a sonorous sound. Byashim Nurali created the first experimental orchestra, the basis of which was modernized dutars and gidzhaks.
Dutar sounds
Sad, then laughs, And I see -
That night and the steppe
That sun
And the Sky, scorched by the heat,
But then I suddenly hear
Bird voices. (Kurban Choliev)
