Our practice lasted a month from 1 st to 28 th February and we went to The Karakalpakstan State Museum of Art named after I. V. Savitsky

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Our practice lasted a month from 1 st to 28 th February and we went to « The Karakalpakstan State Museum of Art named after I. V. Savitsky. The museum was very famous of the world and this Museum is especially popular among art lovers and people who prefer to see the beauty alive.
First week we went to the Museum’s second building because first building was under repair and had general information about the museum, its history, its artists and their arts, exponents and exhibitions and also its rules too. For example we should always wear a mask, before entrance we should be registered and security checks us up, girls or boys with bags put their bags on the first floor and took tokens. Next, we took special guide in our Mother tongue and we moved to second floor. She took kindly to us and introduced us to the history of the museum and its establishment, about who was I. V. Savitsky and its works and donations to the museum. She gave information to the painters and craftsmen and to their paintings and craft works. We inspired from the paintings and crafts of the painters and craftsmen. The guidance was wonderful due to Guide.
Second week, we went to the third floor with guide in English language because we had taken guide in our Mother tongue and we wanted variety and interested in how other guides work and results were perfect. Every guide has its style and language of introduction and you can’t hear one information again, one can’t repeat second one’s data and second one, too. It seems like they fulfill each other. It was very useful experience because our knowledge of artists and their works enlarged. The reason that we had divided the floors for weeks was according to the our curator, when we see the paintings all together, we didn’t understand the pictures and other art works better than we see them separately. Also, the Guide agreed to this idea and said it results to inattention, therefore they didn’t put pictures too closely to each other because tourists, students and visitors lost their focus and pay attention to its next door picture. We had good advices to how to get better understanding of pictures and meaning of the paintings that laid deep in it. It was unforgettable experience for us. We learned a lot about art works and other Karakalpak traditional items.
Third week was the luckiest week because that week was an exhibition entitled "Fantasy without limits" by the famous designer Aizada Nurimbetova, who promotes the national folk-applied art in the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I.V.Savitsky on the second floor. To the exhibition attended more people from official people to simple people. There were Director Tigran Mkrtychev, designer Aizada Nurimbetova and many official people and photographers, journalists, student-practitioners and others. The exhibition showed samples of national costumes of Karakalpak women and girls, as well as a collection of modern models of clothes of little girls. We had more information about The Karakalpak Female Costumes. Decorative devices on the clothes and headdresses of Karakalpak people can be read a book of genealogy. Symbols and signs of Karakalpak women’s or girls' garments will tell you about her family trade, her economic conditions, her lineage and more. However, it is a real discovery for many to learn that a dress can also inform them about one’s marital status, availability of children, position in the family and age. Five dresses – five periods of life of a Karakalpak woman. Life begins with flaming red colors of youth and it comes to its end with white and wise old age.
The fourth week, we visited museum again and took Guide to both second and third floors and had general information one more time to maintain our practice and generalize our knowledge. Then every student took one painter which they liked their art works and collected data about them. Students asked questions that was interested them and questions related to our practice work and had appropriate and reasonable answers. It was very interesting and we had spiritual food as food gives our body energy and power! We learned styles of arts and division of colors. There are impressionism, expressionism, surrealism, realism minimalism, cubism, post-impressionism, contemporary art and other types of art styles.
The art works set fire to my heart and inspired me to draw because I from childhood liked to draw pictures and I interested in art but as I grew up my skills and interests faded away. And now I rebuild my faded ability and feel that young feeling again thanks to the painters, principal staff and Museum of Arts. I think painters and craftsmen feel the same because they people of art. We were proud that we live here and visited one of the world’s illustrious museums.