Bazarduzu 1965

This is Sattar Bahlulzade’s “Bazarduzu,” painted with oils on canvas. The painting is filled with intense, almost psychedelic colors – pinks, reds, greens, and blues. I imagine Bahlulzade standing before the canvas, his mind alive with the landscape he is capturing, but also an emotional landscape, right? Look how the paint is applied in short, urgent strokes, especially in the sky and mountains. The painting feels like a surge of energy, a kind of ecstatic vision. I wonder, was he trying to capture the feeling of being overwhelmed by the majesty of nature? There is something almost Fauvist about the color here, recalling the landscapes of Matisse or Derain, but with a uniquely personal twist. The way he builds up the surface with paint reminds us that all paintings are built upon earlier paintings. Each stroke, each layer, is a response to something that came before. It’s like we are having a conversation across time.