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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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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