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List Of Painters From Georgia (country)
This is a list of notable painters from, or associated with, Georgia (country), Georgia. A *Merab Abramishvili (1957-2006) *David Alexidze (born 1966) *Elene Akhvlediani (1898-1975) *Alexander (Sandro) Antadze (born 1972) B *Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan (1891-1966) *Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan (1922-2005) *Gia Bugadze (born 1956) D *Guram Dolenjashvili (born 1943) E *Robert Elibekyan (born 1941) G *Gigo Gabashvili (1862-1936) *Lado Gudiashvili (1896-1980) *Gia Gugushvili (born 1952) H *Henryk Hryniewski (1869-1937) J *Ucha Japaridze (1906-1988) K *David Kakabadze (1889-1952) *Gayane Khachaturian (1942-2009) *Shalva Kikodze (1894-1921) *Sergo Kobuladze (1909-1978) L *Levan Lagidze (born 1958) M *Grigol Maisuradze (1817-1885) *Nana Meskhidze (1936-1997) *Shota and Margarita Metreveli (1913-1983, 1913–1984) O *Irakli Ochiauri (1924-2015) P *Rusudan Petviashvili (born 1968) *Niko Pirosmani (1862-1918) S *Lado Seidishvili (1931-2010) *Dimitri Shevardnadze (1885-1937) *Valer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region on the coast of the Black Sea. It is located at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia, and is today generally regarded as part of Europe. It is bordered to the north and northeast by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. Georgia covers an area of . It has a Demographics of Georgia (country), population of 3.7 million, of which over a third live in the capital and List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city, Tbilisi. Ethnic Georgians, who are native to the region, constitute a majority of the country's population and are its titular nation. Georgia has been inhabited since prehistory, hosting the world's earliest known sites of winemaking, gold mining, and textiles. The Classical antiquity, classical era saw the emergence of several kingdoms, such as Colchis and Kingdom of Iberia, Iberia, that formed the nucleus of the modern Georgian state. In the early fourth centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shalva Kikodze
Shalva Kikodze (; 1894–1921) was a Georgia (country), Georgian Expressionism, expressionist painter, graphic artist and theatre decorator. Together with Lado Gudiashvili and David Kakabadze, he is considered a key figure in Georgian art of the early 20th century. Biography He was born in a remote Georgian village Bakhvi, Guria, Georgia (country), Georgia. From 1914 to 1918, he studied at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1916, he took part in an expedition to the Georgian village Nabakhtevi and made copies of the 15th-century murals from the local church. As a cartoonist, while still studying in Moscow, he began to collaborate with the Georgian Humor magazines ''Lakhti (Skippng Rope), Eshmakis Matrahi (the Devil’s Whip),'' as well as theater magazines: ''Theater and Life, Theater and Music ''and the Russian-language magazine ''Art –'' all published in Tbilisi. He stayed in his motherland for a short period of 1918-1920, and worked chiefly a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radish Tordia
Radish Tordia ( ka, რადიშ თორდია) (born 21 August 1936) is a Georgian painter of figurative art. He works in oil painting, with particular emphasis on colouristic features. His preferred subject is women, who he regards as "the most beautiful creation in the world".World Artist Directory , Accessarts.net Life Tordia graduated from the J. Nikoladze Art Studio in in 1956, and then moved on to the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, from where he graduated in 1962.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamuka Tavakalashvili
Mamuka Tavakalashvili or Tavakarashvili ( ka, მამუკა თავაქალაშვილი) was a Georgian poet, painter and famous calligrapher of the 17th century at the court of the King of Imereti. He was captured in Principality of Samegrelo in 1634 during the Georgian feudal fights when kings Teimuraz I of Kakheti and George III of Imereti waged war against King Rostom of Kartli and the Dadiani princes of Samegrelo. After this Mamuka worked as calligrapher at the court of Prince Levan II Dadiani. In 1646 he copied The Knight in the Panther's Skin where he created 39 miniatures. In 1647 Tavakalashvili also copied the Georgian translation of Shahnameh. References *Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia'' ( ka, ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია, tr, ქსე) is the first universal encyclopedia in the Georgian language, printed in Tbilisi from 1965, the editor ..., ტ. 4, � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi
Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi ( ka, ვალერიან სიდამონ-ერისთავი; 2 July 1889 – 9 June 1943) was a Georgian Modernist artist and set designer. Born in the town of Kvareli into a noble family, Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi studied arts at Tiflis and Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with .... Returning to Georgia in 1915, he made a name as a caricaturist and illustrator and later switched to historical painting. He became best known for his set design for the Georgian theatre and cinema, for which he fruitfully collaborated with the leading director Kote Marjanishvili. He worked as an art director for about 35 films between 1922 and 1935. In the late 1930s, he mostly retired to teaching arts. References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitri Shevardnadze
Dimitri Shevardnadze ( ka, დიმიტრი შევარდნაძე) (December 1, 1885 – 1937) was a Georgian painter, art collector and intellectual purged during Joseph Stalin's repressions. Life Born in Bakhvi, a small village in the western Georgian province of Guria, then part of the Russian Empire, he was educated at the art academies of St Petersburg and Munich. Upon his return to Georgia, in 1916 he founded and led the Association of Georgian Artists. He helped also to establish the National Gallery of Fine Arts (1920) and the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1922). He decorated several opera and theatre performances, and movies, and designed an official logo of the Tbilisi State University. In 1917 together with Kirill and Ilia Zdanevich, he organized the exhibition of Niko Pirosmanashvili in his apartment. Revolt In 1937 the Communist chief of Georgia, Lavrentiy Beria, intended to destroy the medieval Metekhi church in Tbilisi, but met stubborn opposi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lado Seidishvili
Vladimir (Lado) Osmanis Dze Seidishvili (also spelled Seidashvili) (21 January 1931, Batumi, Georgia – 27 February 2010) was a Georgian painter and poet. In 1956, Seidishvili studied at the Tbilisi Fine Arts Academy, finishing in 1962 with a diploma as a graphic artist. That year, he began working at Batumi's national press as an artist-editor. He also wrote poetry, plays, and made stage scenery for the theater. He did so for the plays "Seventh Sky", "Innocent Eye", and "Brave Soldier Shveiko". Seidishvili himself characterized his work as mainly expressionistic, though, like many artists from the Soviet era, he painted his early works in the Severe or Rough style, sometimes called "Ugly Realism". It reflects the concept of "narodnost", which essentially means that a work of art should be "national in style and socialist in content". At the same time, in Seidishvili's works one can see an archaic native treatment in the almond eyes of his characters, graceful outlining of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niko Pirosmani
Nikoláy Aslánovich Pirosmanashvíli ( ka, ნიკოლოზ ფიროსმანაშვილი, Nik’oloz Phirosmanashvili) or Niko Pirosmani ( ka, ნიკო ფიროსმანი, Nik’o Pirosmani), Mononymous person, simply referred to as Nikala (ნიკალა ''Nik’ala''; 1862–1918), was a Georgians, Georgian painter who posthumously rose to prominence. Relatively poor for most of his life, he worked a variety of ordinary jobs. His rustic, everyday scenes are celebrated today for their depiction of the Georgia of Pirosmani's lifetime, and he has become one of the country's most beloved artistic figures. Niko Pirosmani is alleged to be the inspiration for the male protagonist portrayed in the Russian song Million Roses. Biography Pirosmani was born in the Georgian village of Mirzaani to a peasant family in modern-day Kakheti province. His parents, Aslan Pirosmanashvili and Tekle Toklikishvili, were farmers, who owned a small vineyard, with a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rusudan Petviashvili
Rusudan Petviashvili ( ka, რუსუდან ფეტვიაშვილი; (born 25 January 1968), Tbilisi, Georgia) – Georgian artist, graphic artist. Creates paintings using unique technique: total image is performed in one-touch. Petviashvili's works and lives in Tbilisi, few months a year she works in Berlin, Geneva and Paris where she has a studio. Childhood and family Rusudan Petviashvili was born in Tbilisi, 25th of January, 1968, in family of artists. Her father — a sculptor artist, mother — a poet and dramaturgist. The talent of the artist appeared in early childhood. Petviashvili began painting when she was one and a half years old. Rusudan's parents tried to keep the identity of her talent, did not put it down, did not try to fit the personality of the girl in any frames. As a child, Rusudan could take charcoal or pencil and begin to draw directly on the walls of the apartment. Rusudan's ancestors by the paternal side were physicists. The grandmothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irakli Ochiauri
Irakli Ochiauri ( ka, ირაკლი ოჩიაური, ; November 20, 1924 – December 4, 2015) was a Georgia (country), Georgian painter and sculptor who was awarded the Shota Rustaveli State Prize, the highest prize in Georgia in the fields of art and literature. Ochiauri was born in Tbilisi. From 1945 to 1951 he studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts on the faculty of Sculpture first with professor Silovan Kakabadze and then with Iakob Nikoladze. His dissertation was devoted to Vazha Pshavela. He participated in exhibitions from 1953. His first work, the portrait of Marine Kubaneishvili attracted attention when it was exhibited in Moscow and, thanks to this, Irakli Ochiauri became a member of the Union of Soviet Artists. In the same 1953 Irakli Ochiauri exhibited his first Repoussé and chasing, embossing - Portrait of Iakob Nikoladze that is considered as the renaissance of the new Georgian Art of coining (metalworking), coining.. From 1952 to 1962, he work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shota And Margarita Metreveli
Shota Metreveli (October 25, 1913 – April 5, 1983) ( ka, შოთა მეტრეველი) and Margarita Metreveli (June 22, 1913 – July 22, 1984) ( ka, მარგარიტა მეტრეველი) were artists from Georgia. Biography Shota Metreveli was a 20th-century Georgian realist artist. He was born in Borjomi on October 25, 1913 into the family of a small manufacturer. In 1927 his family moved to Tbilisi and in 1928 he met Margarita Atskvereli (later Metreveli, his wife) for the first time at their secondary school and they became friends. Margarita Metreveli was born in Tbilisi on June 22, 1913 into a family of a blacksmiths called Atskvereli. Their meeting in 1928 was the beginning of a long creative partnership based on mutual passion for art and lasted over 50 years until their deaths in the 1980s. In 1938 they both graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, where they studied under Professor Mose Toidze, the Georgian artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana Meskhidze
Nana Meskhidze ( ka, ნანა მესხიძე; 13 March 1936 – 31 August 1997), was an artist of Georgia. She participated in many exhibitions. Biography Meskhidze was born on 13 March 1936 in Tbilisi. Her father was Archil Meskhidze who was the conductor of the Georgian folk music choir and his mother was Anna Avlokhashvili, an artist with the Marjanishvili Theater. In 1944 she went to Ilia Chavchavadze Women's High School and in 1951 she started her studies with Iakob Nikoladze at the art school in Tbilisi. In 1957 she studied at the Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts. In 1963 Meskhidze left and began participating in exhibitions where the main theme of her works are Сhildren and Motherhood. In 1965 she became a member of USSR Union of Artists and in 1977 she was an honoured artist of the Georgian republic. Meskhidze was one of the "Five Georgian Artists" who created an exhibition in Moscow in 1977. The other artists were Radish Tordia, Givi Narmania, Zurab Razmadz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
