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Soviet Georgian artist Tengiz Mirzashvili 1934-2008

Vintage (Collecting grapes). 1967. Cardboard, tempera. Painting by Soviet Georgian artist Tengiz Mirzashvili (10 February 1934 - 1 January 2008)

Vintage (Collecting grapes). 1967. Cardboard, tempera. Painting by Soviet Georgian artist Tengiz Mirzashvili (10 February 1934 – 1 January 2008)

Soviet Georgian artist Tengiz Mirzashvili

Born in 1934 in Mestia, Georgia, Tengiz Revazovich Mirzashvili (10 February 1934 – 1 January 2008) created touching landscapes, beautiful unrealizable women, flowers and birds – everything that surrounded him. Meanwhile, with his tender naivety and purity he reminded Niko Pirosmanishvili, who he looked like.
Honored Artist of Georgian SSR, he graduated from the Academy of Arts in Tbilisi, workshop of SS Kobuladze (1958).
For Mirzashvili’s creativity is characteristic the desire for wholeness and manly asceticism of images. Taken from the everyday world, his characters seem to be in slow motion. The characteristic coloring of the canvas, the stable archaic forms of the pattern resemble ancient frescoes and reliefs. And their imaginative structure manifest an interest in the historical past, folklore inherent in modern man, as a guardian of the primordial artistic culture of the people.
In the painting “Harvesting” (1967), the everyday motif is cleared of everyday life. A female figure, as impressive as a statue, exists in a special, somewhat abstract space. The artist creates a poetic image, which contains permanent human values.

Poppies

Poppies

The works of Tengiz Mirzashvili are in the Georgian State Museum of Fine Arts, National Picture Gallery (Tbilisi), The Tretyakov Gallery, Museum of the Arts of the East, Gallery of Omar Chkhaidze (Moscow), and also in private galleries and collections. Besides, according to those who knew him, the artist worked a lot and generously gave out his paintings to new and old friends.

Soviet Georgian artist Tengiz Mirzashvili

A family of three

A family of three

A woman in a red hat

A woman in a red hat

Afternoon

Afternoon

Autumn. 1972

Autumn. 1972

Basilica. 1987

Basilica. 1987

Blue house

Blue house

Bouquet. 1999

Bouquet. 1999

First snow

First snow

Flock of sheep. 1981

Flock of sheep. 1981

Flowers in a vase

Flowers in a vase

In the bay

In the bay

July

July

Meadows

Meadows

Moon

Moon

Moonlight

Moonlight

Red flowers in a vase

Flowers in a vase

Red sun

Red sun

Red trees

Landscape. Red trees

Returning home. 1972

Returning home. 1972

Soviet Georgian artist Tengiz Mirzashvili 1934-2008

Soviet Georgian artist Tengiz Mirzashvili 1934-2008

Still life. 1990

Still life. 1990

Still life

Still life

Sunset

Sunset

The bridge

The bridge

The dawn

The dawn

Walking people

Walking people

Wind

Wind

Winter landscape

Winter landscape