Visionary art of Ashraf Murad

The paper is dedicated to 100 th anniversary of the famous artist of Azerbaijan Ashraf Murad who immensely contributed to artistic culture of the country in XX century.First part of the paper describes youth period of artist, his education and initial period of creativity as painter-artist.Middle part of the article analyses formation of painter's personal creative artistic language.A number of creativity stages are being reviewed.Genres in which searches of his idiolect are described.The last part of the paper reviews the main theme of Murad's creativity -portraits.However, with their formal thinking, art of painting technique and compositional talent, power of impact, hypnotic properties, attraction and absorption of light, they stand apart and could decorate the halls of the world's best collections of modern art.