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AUTHOR OF THE SERIES MARIA CHEGODAEVA

ZURAB TSERETELI THE BOOK THREE DRAWING AND ENAMEL

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Tsereteli Zurab Konstantinovich

Born on January 4, 1934 in Tbilisi.

He comes from the ancient Georgian family of princes Tserereli.

In 1958 he graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts .

Since 1963, member of the USSR Union of Artists.

Since 1988 - Member of the USSR Academy of Arts .

Since 1994, the People’s Artist of Russia .

Zurab Tsereteli is a Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Spain); a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Fine Arts of France; UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.

Z. Tsetereteli has won many domestic and foreign awards: Commander of the Order of the Legion of Honor (France) since 2010; Cavalier King Cross - the Order «For Civil Merit» (Spain), in 2012; Full Cavalier of Order «For the Merit for Fatherland» (Russia), 2014; UNESCO Medal «Five Continents» for supporting young talent.

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Cover design enamel of Zurab Tsereteli: "Croatia". 2008.

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Lust for Life Maria Chegodaeva

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A pencil or crayon drawing, colored graphic sheets and their follow-up in the three-dimensional enamel technique do not make up just an addition to monumental painting or sculpture, a preparation for them or a necessary professional training for the artist. Actually, it’s a kind of foundation, a primary basis for artistic creativity, the incessant, tireless outpouring of a master’s soul which could be paralleled to small forms of great composers where a fugue by Bach, a romance by Thaikovsky or Chopin’s waltz are as meaningful as their symphonies, masses or sonatas…

Drawing, perhaps, is the most

the figure, at once with one

organic and natural expression of

firm movement of the hand

the artist’s nature. Drawing for him

delineates characteristic heads,

equals living. He draws always

leaving untouched the white

and everywhere: on the road, at

space of the paper and at the

meetings, while talking to various

same time conveying the volume

people. Without ceremony,

of the human body, its weight, its

without asking for permission,

alive, full flesh.

he sketches in his album the

“With Granddad to the

features of a person he’s talking

Market”: two half-figures of a

to, sketches his immediate,

boy and an old man carrying the

spontaneous impression of the

goods on his shoulders, depicted

person who aroused his interest.

in a light, transparent manner;

This ink or crayon drawings made

“At the Market”: a motley

sometimes with small strokes,

crowd like a dense ornament

sometimes in one black line,

occupying the whole sheet;

briskly and accurately outline

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“Tornike the Organ-grinder with

with fire-red ochre figures of lovers

a Fisherman” … Sometimes, as

can be easily associated with

in the light, transparent Croatian

Adam and Eve, with the primeval

seascape the lines get thinner till

man made of the same red clay

they are reduced to few scarce

as the rustic pitchers, the same

strokes. The white background

earth that became a paint for

both dissolves and reveals, brings

the painter.

forward the visual image of this

Sometimes the color

sea country with its bays and

technique looks watery and

curved contours of the indented

transparent, more of a shade

coastline.

rather than a color, like in the

Drawing also remains the

figure of an old Jewish fiddler

basis for his watercolors. They

(from the “Jerusalem” series).

are always very bright, rich in

Sometimes the mixed technique

clear open colors and striking

on paper reaches the maximum

combinations of yellow, red,

density and joins in a powerful

blue, green with the white of

loud color accord. The colors

the left untouched paper and

sound locally as pure yellow, blue,

the black of the ink. They are the

brick-red hues.

same types as in his sketches:

The seascapes from the

merchants, beggars, just men

“Croatia” series are performed

and women, revived and

with a mixed technique on a

transfigured by his memory and

special type of paper. The azure-

artistically hyperbolized; in colorful

blue water plays with white

compositions they gain a greater

splashes of foam. The solid greyish

generalization and detachment.

ochre stones of the shore are

As if they are transferred to

given such a perceptible volume

some special fantastic, ringing

and texture that you seem to feel

with colors, fairy world (“Magic

them under your feet, walk on

Towns”), leave the real time for

them. The bay is painted in the

another timeless universe … Burnt

technique of a three-dimensional

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enamel, in reproduction it is

than anything else reveal the

indistinguishable from landscapes

essence of the Grace that

made on paper.

Tsereteli was endowed with:

Enamels are closely related

the impeccable, rigorous

to his graphics. Theу look like

professionalism, which allows no

animated colored papers.

deviations from the immutable

From the flat background, that

technical laws of enameling, and

visually is different from the

the free play of imagination, the

mixed techniques of graphic

immediate spontaneous religious

compositions only by its shining

feeling.

glassy surface, suddenly stand

Religious feeling that threads

out “swelling” human figures,

all of Tsereteli’s creative activity

flowers, fruits, landscapes.

is particularly distinguished in the

They blink, glow with their inner

enamel figures of the Archangels

light, especially beautiful in

of the “home church” of his

combination with the aquarelle

museum.The artist has really seen

coloring of their forms and

the divine messengers – very

picturesque fluid texture of the

young boys absorbed by a soft

fills, enclosed by sharp black

pink light embracing the entire

contours.

space of the icons, illuminating

Tsereteli’s favorite enamel,

the faces and figures of Michael

which he modified and to a great

and Gabriel who before our

extent invented anew (volume

eyes get materialized in an

enamel), is not just another

exceptionally beautiful dark-blue

material he uses. Combination

“star’’ ornament of their robes.

of painting and volume, free

The Infants of God.

spontaneous sketchy character

“Not only doth the Form

and awareness of the eternity

define the Content, it becomes

of this antique technique, not

the Content”

subject to time, may be more

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1. Archangels Gabriel and Michael.

1998-2006. Three-dimensional enamel.

2.Marais. 2010.

Three-dimensional enamel.

3.In My Dreams . Protect Me, Flute . 2006.

The relief enamel.

4.From the series "Jerusalem". 2009.

Metal . Mixed technique.

5.From the " Magic City" . 2004.

Three-dimensional enamel.

6. "Ju-ju". 2005-2007.

Metal . Mixed technique.

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7. From the series "Jerusalem".

2007. Metal . Mixed technique .

8. From the series "Jerusalem". 2004.

Three-dimensional enamel.

9. From the series "Croatia". 2008.

Three-dimensional enamel.

10. Tears of loneliness.

From the series "Charlie Chaplin". 2005.

Three-dimensional enamel.

11. Tvedore. 2011.

Three-dimensional enamel.

12. Single. 2011.

Three-dimensional enamel.

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13. Memories. 2006.

Paper. Ink, pen.

14. Tornike Organ-grinder with a Fisherman.

2006. Paper. Ink, pen.

15. From the series "Croatia". 2005.

Paper. Ink, pen.

16. Woman. 2007.

Paper. Ink, pen.

17. With Granddad to the Market. 2000.

Paper. Ink, pen.

18.To the market. 2006.

Paper. Ink, pen.

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19. From the series "Croatia". 2005.

Paper. Mixed technique.

20. From the series"Magic City". 2004.

Paper. Mixed technique.

21. From the series "Jerusalem". 2008.

Paper. Mixed technique.

22. Duda. 2004.

Paper. Mixed technique.

23. From the series "Memory". 2009.

Paper. Mixed technique.

24. Good catch. 2009.

Paper. Mixed technique.

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