Elene Akhvlediani - Georgian Landscape Paintings

Elene Akhvlediani (1898-1975) was Georgian painter,graphic artist and theater decorator.Her parents were people out of the common.Elene,Just as the other artists of her generation-David Kakabadze,Lado Gudiashvili and Keto Magalashvili-started her works in the early decades of the twentieth century.These masters achievements,based on the legacy of national and European culturs,have largely determined the distinctive features of Georgian Soviet art and have not lost their importance to this day. 1926 First solo exhibition at the “Quatre Chemins” gallery.After returning to Georgia she held various exhibitions in Tbilisi, Telavi and Kutaisi.She worked with Kote Marjanishvili for Kutaisi Theatre as well as for the theatres of Tbilisi, Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, in total making the stage designs for 70 performances.From 1950s she began to work in cinema design. She designed costumes for the films “Chrichina” (Cricket), “Eter’s Song”, “Ceased Song” and for Sergo Parajanov’s film “Color of Pomegranate” (unrealized project).At the end of 1950s she travelled to the Baltic States and the Czech Republic and created series of landscapes of Tallinn and Bratislavan.In 1960s she restored the tradition that had been practiced by Boris Vogel and together with a group of artists started travelling in different regions of Georgia, organizing various exhibitions to encompass a wide range of their work along the road.

Georgian Easel Painting Merab Abramishvili

Merab Abramishvili (16 March 1957 – 22 June 2006) was a Georgian painter whose works were influenced by medieval arts and European neo-expressionism.
Abramishvili was born in Tbilisi, the capital of then-Soviet Georgia. He graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1981. His future aesthetics were influenced by medieval Georgian frescoes and Orientalist miniatures which were introduced to him by his father, Guram Abramishvili, an expert in Georgian medieval art at the Art Museum of Georgia. Impressed by the medieval frescoes from the Ateni Sioni Church, the artist adopted the gesso technique to create the texture of a mural in his easel painting as well. Due to his unique visual language and aesthetics, Abramishvili emerged as one of the leading Georgian artists, who went beyond the established Soviet-era clichés. In the period of post-Soviet political instability, Abramishvili became preoccupied with mystical imagery. His works were displayed as part of solo and group exhibitions in both Georgia and abroad. His painting are treasured by the Art Museum of Georgia and National Gallery of Art in Tbilisi as well as Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and private collections in Finland and the United States.Wikipedia