Petre Bliotkin, Soviet Painter and Graphic Artist of Russian Origins, was Honored Artist of The Soviet Socialist Republic. He lived and worked in Georgia. He was the student of I. Sharleman, E. Tavtevosian and E. Lansere. He actively took part in exhibitions from 1930. In…

After Graduating Tbilisi Economical Institute, in 1922 young Korneli Sanadze started classes in Mose Toidze Public Art Studio. In 1924 he entered Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts, where he attended lectures of E. Lancere, I. Sharleman, G .Gabashvili, E, Tatevosian. From 1934 he started…

Zhani (Zhango) Medzmariashvili is a prominent representative of the generation known as the “50s Generation.” This generation, which endured a difficult childhood due to political repressions and the Second World War, played a pivotal role in shaping the most significant cultural developments in Georgia during…

A sculptor, painter, graphic artist and book illustrator, Elguja Amashukeli, like other sculptors of his pleiade, authored the icons with strong national identity in monumental urban sculpture.  His kings as well as the symbolic and allegorical statuary:  Vakhtang Gorgasali, Mother of All Georgians, A Tiger…

Apollon Kutateladze starts to study in Poti, Georgia. He continues to study at the “Caucasian society of artist support” school, where he will be specialised in art from 1914 to 1915. In 1915, he will quit Poti to join the “Nikolay Sklifosovsky” Academy of Painting…

Guram (Khita) Kutateladze was born in the family of famous Georgian painter and rector (1959–1972) of Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Apolon Kutateladze. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1940-1942, 1946) and the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1942-1946). His…

Rita Khachaturian lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, majoring in Easel Graphics. Rita’s works are easily recognizable thanks to her uncompromising style and even due to the severity that was obvious in her earlier series Fear, Morphology,…

Tengiz Mirzashvili was born in 1934 in Svanetia region. In 1958 graduated the Academy of Fine Arts in Tbilisi faculty of Theater an Decorative Arts.  He was passionate about Georgian landscapes and the history of his country and created series of landscapes and genre paintings. …

Sculptor, graphic artist and painter, Merab Berdzenishvili was one of the creators of the national patriotic style statuary which had originated by the late 1950s in the realm of the Georgian monumental sculpture.   His powerful heroic works, predominantly influenced by the aesthetics of the Italian…

Levan Margiani (b.1965), a miniaturist and painter, graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1989. His teachers were Otar Japaridze and Shota Kuprashvili. Since 1994, he has held nearly twenty solo exhibitions, including the exhibitions at “Cour des Saint-Peres-16” exhibition space in Paris;…

Kakhaber Tatishvili graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1992. His paintings, figurative or abstract compositions, landscapes, and still lifes are distinguished by their subtle colors, laconic forms, and joyous moods. “I’ve experimented with themes and performance, and I’m attempting to diversify my…

Gela Patiashvili (b.1964) graduated from Tbilisi Polytechnic University in 1986. Painting, which he had been fond of since childhood, eventually became his profession. Technical education – primarily mathematics, according to the artist, enabled him to develop the skill of spatial perception and convinced him of the…