The 120th anniversary of the prominent carpet artist Latif Karimov will be celebrated.
elchi reports that President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree to this effect.
The decree notes that November 2026 marks the 120th anniversary of the great master of Azerbaijani fine arts, prominent carpet expert, pedagogue and art historian, USSR State Prize laureate, and People’s Artist Latif Huseyn oglu Karimov:
“Latif Karimov has commendable services in raising the Azerbaijani carpet culture, which holds an honorable position in the world’s cultural heritage treasury, to its current level of development. A large number of figurative, portrait carpets and monumental rugs woven based on his sketches are unique works of art that embody the brilliant traditions of national carpet weaving. His deeply colorful works, created with innate talent and distinguished by the expressiveness of their patterns and finished style, earned the artist special fame as one of the most famous carpet masters of the era. Latif Karimov determined the ornamental and compositional features of Azerbaijani carpets and developed a perfectly systematic classification. The fundamental research conducted in this direction by the scholar, who is recognized as a master connoisseur of carpet art on an international scale, remains one of the most cited authoritative sources today.”
According to the decree, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences must prepare and implement an action plan regarding the 120th anniversary of People’s Artist Latif Karimov, and the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan must resolve issues arising from this Decree.