The exhibition includes more than 90 articles of miniature, lacquered painting and easel painting. Products made in the best national traditions complied in themselves the artistic experience of many generations and expressed a distinctive culture of the Uzbek people. Charm of subtle lines, small and elaborated details considering the special feature of miniature, as well as bright palette and unconventional color preferences were worthily estimated by visitors of the exhibition.  

In works of artists it is possible to observe the combination of fine and decorative beginnings, their products are in one style with miniature painting and applied art through which they acquire new value. The style of the Khojimetovs is distinct in delicate and expressive drawing, rich of color gamut, interesting plot and inimitable personages.

The painter Bahodir Khojimetov was born in 1951 in Tashkent. After graduating from the Benkov Republican School of Arts and Tashkent Theater and Art Institute (now Uzbek State Institute of Arts), he started his creative activity, special role in which was assigned to miniature. Main principles of this distinguished art he learnt from the renowned master Chingiz Ahmarov. Developing his artistic individuality, Bahodir Khojimetov added new colors in the traditional miniature differing with complexity, color and reality. The painter prefers to create works through observing the environment that allows him to even better to depict the images of people and nature.  

Since 2002, Bahodir Khojimetov is the member of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan. For the years of creativity he has taken part in many republican and international exhibitions, contests and festivals, including the Exhibition-Fair Bazar-Art. Moreover, Bahodir Khojimetov is a laureate of the Festival of Traditional Culture Echo of Centuries 2011 that took place in Bukhoro. His products are preserved in private collections both in Uzbekistan and abroad. 

“I do like experimenting with colors, combining different colors. In my works I try to express the beauty of nature and home place,” says Bahodir Khojimetov. I adore the rich heritage of our outstanding forefather Kamoliddin Behzod, his works are always the source of my inspiration.”

The painter’s son Behzod Khojimetov was born in 1979 in Tashkent, and always lived in the atmosphere of creativity and love for the arts. It determined his future profession. Keen interest in fine and applied arts and great potential at that pushed him to follow his father’s creative path. Graduate of the Kamoliddin Behzod National Institute of Arts and Design, in 2005 he became a laureate of the President’s scholarship. The young painter notes that this high achievement became an incentive for gaining new heights and helped him to believe in his abilities and skills. As his father Behzod Khojimetov gave his preference to the Eastern miniature. He participated in various exhibitions and currently teaches at the Kamoliddin Behzod National Institute of Arts and Design.

The exhibition of talented masters has become a kind surprise for all connoisseurs of the national arts and allowed the visitors to make sure that miniature and drawing in the modern culture of Uzbekistan have acquired their new breath, getting intensively developed along with other kinds of the arts.