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Vladimir (Lado) Gudiashvili, a Georgian painter, graphic artist, monumentalist, theater and cinema artist, book illustrator, People’s Artist of Georgia, and laureate of the Shota Rustaveli Prize, is one of the outstanding representatives of Georgian modernism.
Lado Gudiashvili was born in 1896 in Tbilisi. From 1910 to 1914, he studied at the Tiflis School of Painting and Sculpture of the Caucasian Society. In 1915, his first personal exhibition was held. Between 1916 and 1919, Gudiashvili took part in significant expeditions organized by the Georgian Society of Artists and the Historical and Ethnographic Society of Georgia. In 1916, he participated in the study expedition of the 15th-century frescoes of the Nabakhtevi Church and the David Gareji monastery complex. In 1917, he joined an expedition in southern Georgia (present-day Turkey) to explore unique monuments of Georgian architecture. Copies of his frescoes are invaluable to national culture.
In 1917-1918, Gudiashvili, along with other prominent Georgian and foreign modernists, created important wall paintings for Tbilisi art clubs, none of which survived the Soviet period. In 1919, together with David Kakabadze, Kirill Zdanevich, Zygmunt Waliszewski, and Serge Sudeikin, he participated in painting the lobby of CaféKimeorion (the lower floor of today’s Rustaveli Theater), which was opened under the leadership of the Blue Horns group. The Kimeorion painting was restored in the early 1980s.
In 1919, on the initiative of the Georgian Society of Artists, Gudiashvili went to Paris with David Kakabadze. He settled in the Montparnasse district and frequently visited the famous Café de la Rotonde. In France, he befriended many renowned writers, artists, and art critics such as Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Amedeo Modigliani, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Ignacio Zuloaga, Ilya Ehrenburg, Maurice Raynal, Pierre Worms, and André Salmon. His studio was frequently visited
Lado (Vladimir) Davidovich Gudiashvili
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An outstanding Georgian painter, a monumentalist, graphic artist, illustrator, talented teacher, professor of the Academy of Arts of Georgia. He worked in the styles of Post-impressionism, Art Nouveau, Symbolism and Primitivism.
He was born in a fairly well-to-do family of a railway employee. The boy’s mother soon began to notice his great ability to draw. Parents bought Lado a bicycle, and he traveled 20 km to Mtskheta to paint ancient churches there.
The painter that lived in Paris a long time and became famous in Europe and America, became the embodiment of innovative trends in painting in his country. He was the first professional artist to depart from the gloomy palette characteristic of the Georgian fine arts. He worked in different modern styles, avoiding only non-figurative styles and is considered the continuer of the ideas of great Pirosmani. Lado Gudiashvili was a member of various creative communities, was awarded high state ranks and prizes (People’s Artist, Hero of Labor, etc.)
The creativity of Lado Gudiashvili differs in an incredible variety of genre and technique of performance: he wrote with oil, watercolor, gouache, worked in a mixed technique, performed wall painting, created graphic works of art. In the artist’s heritage, there are portraits and landscapes, historical paintings and allegorical, mythological and even political works. The nature of the canvas is either epic, or philosophical, or lyrical. Probably, therefore, the master himself refrained from assessing his style, which, nevertheless, is easily recognized, because the motives of his work, especially the early ones, are almost exclusively Georgian.
In the capital of Georgia, the house-museum of Gudiashvili was opened, one of the squares of Tbilisi was named after him. The artist’s paintings continue to excite the viewer and remain in demand. For example, in 2013, the Sotheby’s house so
Lado Gudiashvili
The gallery of 20th century Georgian painting has been created by outstanding personalities, distinguished by their artistic merits as well as by their individual charm, and their captivating artistic perception of the world. They include individuals who introduced innovative art forms and who earned a permanent place in the treasury of the Georgia’s cultural heritage. One such personality was undoubtedly the artist Lado Gudiashvili.
Lado Gudiashvili was born on 18 March 1896 in Tbilisi, in the family of David Gudiashvili and Elizabeth Itonishvili. From an early age, he was drawn towards painting and drawing, and in 1914 he graduated from the Art School in Tbilisi with a Diploma with distinction. He then worked on several magazines as an illustrator. From1916 he took part in the expeditions organized by the ‘Georgian Artists’ and the ‘Historic-Ethnographic Society’ for the purpose of studying the architecture and wall paintings of Medieval Georgia. During these expeditions Lado Gudiashvili copied the frescos of Nabakhtevi and David-Gareji churches which were exhibited in 1917 together with the copies made by other artists in the ‘Temple of Glory’ (now the Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery of the Georgian National Museum). The study of monumental wall painting and the process of rationalization of this experience were to be valuable assets for of Lado Gudiashvili’s future activities and can be observed in his many creations.
The creative atmosphere in Tbilisi was especially lively in the teens and twenties of the 20th century. Situated on the crossroad between West and East, Tbilisi had its specific charm, which attractive many artists from all over the world, who also wished to escape from war. As the poet and artist Egor Terentiev wrote, ‘the train from the Maidan would go straight into Europe’. Tbilisi was a truly multi-cultural town, The template automatically sets the following categories: Category:Creator template maintenance; Category:Bad use of creator template - option {{Creator:Lado Gudiashvili}} Creator page template, created by filling parameters of {{Creator}}, is intended for author/artist field of {{Information}}, {{Artwork}}, {{Art Photo}} and {{Book}} templates Additional phrase to add to the creator's name (in current language) which clarifies their sometimes indirect role. Possible phrases are: "workshop of", "circle of", "school of", "studio of", "or follower", "or workshop", "and workshop", "attributed to", "after", "formerly attributed to", "follower of", "manner of", "namepiece", "near", "possibly", "probably", "presumably". Adding one of those keywords will add those phrases to the author's name in current language. Keyword "autocategorize" will add categories when creator template is transcluded in the home-category. The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: all namespaces The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users If the template above shows the logo , then it is connected to Wikidata, and all the information displayed in the template which is not specified on Commons is specified on Wikidata. In order to modify it, please click the logo in the template above and modify it there. See below for table of which Wikidata properties are used by Module:Creator to construct the infobox. Creator:Lado Gudiashvili
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