Ayan Aziz
Mammadova

Ayan Aziz, a graduate of the Azerbaijan State Academy of Arts, still in her student years, successfully exposed her own work in the country and abroad. Later she continued her exhibition activities, developing all new directions in her creativity works.

It seems the fate marked this bright, interesting, distinctive artist to come to the painting. After all, she is a daughter of Arif Aziz, the People’s Artist of Azerbaijan, who has submitted a unique contribution to Azerbaijan visual arts over the past half century – its areas like design, book graphics, painting, stage design and others.

The creativity of the father, of course, had a great influence on the formation of Ayan’s own artistic manner, but she is looks for and successfully find her own way in art. In the centre of her creative manner there has been set the colour. It is the colour which assigns in her works the rhythm, and deep meaning. Such is, for example, the work entitled “From Evil Eye”, where an abstract ornament in the first glance is actually a reference to the traditional colour decision of the Muslim amulet “Evil Eye", which is a charm, supposed to secure from according to the evil eye