Gennady (also Gennadii) Ivanovich Pasko (born 26 October 1940,

Sukhumi Sukhumi or Sokhumi is a city in a wide bay on the Black Sea's eastern coast. It is both the Capital city, capital and largest city of Abkhazia, a partially recognised state that most countries consider a part of Georgia (country), Georgia. The ...

) is a Russian

impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

painter.

Education

Pasko finished Batumi art school in 1959. He graduated from the faculty of applied art (decorative arts) of the

Moscow Textile Institute Kosygin Moscow State Textile University (formerly Moscow State Textile Institute) was formed in 1919. It is one of the oldest and institutes for higher studies in textiles in Russia. History In 1981, the institute was named in honor of Soviet ...

in 1965.

Recognition

Pasko is the

people's artist of Russia People's Artist of the Russian Federation (, ''Narodnyy artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii''), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the Russian Federation, is an honorary and the highest title awarded to citizens of the Russian Federation ...

for 1995. He was awarded a Diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts in 2001.

References

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