Among the artists of specifically realistic vision of life is Melis Haidarovich Akhmedov, who has been working in easel and book graphics since the early 1970s. As an easel artist, like other masters, he predominantly works on thematic series, which he always creates based on natural material. His work is characterized by a narrative-plot nature of the image, knowledge of folk life, and interest in details and ethnographic specifics. The object-spatial fullness of the sheet and factuality have become features of his print works, almost exclusively linocuts. With documentary meticulousness, he reproduces the work process of cotton pickers in southern Kyrgyzstan in the series "Gathering Raw Cotton" (1974). The series "With the Shepherds" (1974), "In the Native Land" (1974), "Rural Life" (etching, 1980) are dedicated to the well-known life of rural workers and the nature of Kyrgyzstan, thoroughly telling about their daily concerns. The artist's attention is focused on the careful transmission of the traits of nature and the engaging character of typical everyday scenes. At the same time, over the years, he has worked more on the expressiveness of the graphic language, diversifying compositional solutions and enriching carving techniques, as well as the interplay of black and white colors. One of Akhmedov's latest series, "To a New Life" ("Meeting of Leningraders," "Universal Education," "Organization of the Collective Farm in Southern Kyrgyzstan," "The First Tractor in the Village," 1984) is dedicated to the pages of the history of Soviet Kyrgyzstan. It uses archival documents, literary sources, photographic material, as well as the artist's rich natural observations.
