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Salakhov, Tair (Teymur-Ogly)
(b Baku, 29 Nov 1928). Azebaijani painter and draughtsman. He studied at the Azimadze Azerbaijani Art College in Baku (1945–50) and the Surikov Art Institute, Moscow (1951–7). He was greatly influenced by the monumental–expressive style of Aleksandr Deyneka and Pavel Korin, and by non-Soviet art, especially the emotional Neo-realism of Renato Guttuso. He became one of the leading representatives of the ‘Severe style’ (Rus. Surovyy stil’), a trend in Soviet art of the 1960s that aimed to set off a hard, publicist, realist view against the ceremonial ‘polished reality’ of the previous period. Sakhalov’s compositions on the life and work of the Baku oil-workers (e.g. Repair Men, 1961; Baku, Mustafayev Azerbaij. Mus. A.) and portraits, for example of the composer Kara Karayev (1960; Moscow, Tret’yakov Gal.), are characterized by a forcefulness and lack of idealization. They gain a monumentality from the clearly drawn forms and intense colour contrasts. His later works are more peaceful and lyrically contemplative, and Eastern influences are more apparent, as in Portrait of Grandson Dan (1983; Baku, Mustafayev Azerbaij. Mus. A.), in which the composition and colouring are subordinate to the flowing rhythms of Eastern medieval miniatures. Many of his most successful works are associated with his impressions of foreign countries (e.g. Mexican Corrida, 1969; Baku, Mustafayev Azerbaij. Mus. A.). He also produced expressive drawings and stage designs.
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