Vajiha Samadova – 100

Abstract

An outstanding Azerbaijani painter, Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR, Vajiha Samedova was born in 1924 in Baku. A graduate of the Moscow Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov, she is known mainly for her portraits, as well as landscapes, still lifes and thematic canvases. Vajiha Samadova is an artist of extraordinary good fortune in the highest sense of the word – not in a narrow-minded and banal sense according to which the ideal is a long, quiet and well-off existence, but in the highest human sense, where the value and the meaning of life consist in working, burning, struggling and searching for happiness.