NEW PAINTINGS DEDICATED TO HEYDAR ALIYEV

The article deals with paintings dedicated to Heydar Aliyev created in 2020–2022. Undoubtedly, the 100th anniversary of the birth of the nationwide leader, celebrated in 2023, became the impetus for writing them. It is good to note that in the early 2000s, a definite iconography of portrait images of Heydar Aliyev was formed, which the authors of new paintings rely on. The text analyzes the portrait works of artists S. Mammadov, I. Mirzayev, G. Mehdizadeh, S. Bayramov, and Van Duong Thanh (Vietnam), as well as thematic compositions of T. Abdinov, S. Karimova, F. Babayev. The conclusion is made that from the point of view of the psychology of creativity, they all belong to the harmonic type of creativity. Their style is “calm, clear, unflappable”.