Baku to host “From Georgia with love” exhibition

/AzerNews/

By Amina Nazarli

An exhibition called “From Georgia with Love” will be opened in Azerbaijan National Art Museum in Baku on November 18.

To be co-organized by the Azerbaijani Culture and Tourism Ministry, Georgian Ministry of Culture and Monuments Protection, Azerbaijan Culture Museum named after Mirza Fatali Akhundov and Georgia Artists Association, the event will be held at 17:00 at the address Niyazi Street, 11.

Some 130 works of 62 painters and graphic artists will be put on display at the exhibition, which will run for two weeks.

The Georgian Artists School has a very rich tradition. Georgian art has evolved for millennia. With roots in rich archaic and ethnic tradition, Georgian art has grown along with the development of the Georgian statehood, starting from the ancient kingdoms. The location of Georgia on the crossroads of Asia and Europe has brought travelers, merchants, missionaries and conquerors of all kinds and creeds, and defined the country's cultural and artistic environment throughout its history.

Georgian art tradition has thus been impressed by Mesopotamian, Anatolian, Greek, Persian, and Roman art throughout antiquity. It has further grown within the framework of Christian ecclesiastical and middle-eastern art of the Middle Ages.

The famous artist of last century Niko Pirosmani brought new colors to the Georgian painting art. Georgian artist, David Kakabadze, Elene Akhvlediani and Lado Gudiashvili, who lived in 1980s in Paris established relations between representatives of this school and Western Europe.

Practice of unlike concepts by a group of Georgian artist, living in 1950s played a great role in creation and formation of visual styles in the country.