Kara Maria

The Way In is the Way Out (O'ahu 'o'o, after Keulemans), Painting by Kara Maria

2024

An Initial Exploration of Oraficial Relatedness, Painting by Kara Maria, 2001 Additional information: Medium: Acrylic on canvas (diptych) Dimensions: 51 × 80 in Kara Maria produces...

Hawaiian Tree Snail, Acrylic on Paper Painting by Kara Maria, 2023 Additional information: Medium: Acrylic on paper Dimensions: 8 x 8 in Kara Maria produces paintings and work on p...

Pattern is Mother of Memory, Acrylic on Canvas Painting by Kara Maria, 2005 Additional information: Medium: Acrylic on canvas Dimensions: 60 × 80 in (152.4 × 203.2 cm) Kara Maria p...

She Will Hang the Night With Stars (northern spotted owl), Painting by Kara Maria, 2016 Additional information: Medium: Acrylic on canvas Dimensions: 26 x 26 in Kara Maria produces...

An original colorful palette knife abstract painting with a gentle textrure. Multiple layers of rich pigmented professional acrylics. Thanks to unique work with a huge pallet knife...

Composition 7777, 2018., 95x100 cm Abstract composition. Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso. Works of artistic stone He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy. Nugzar's color preferences The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life. Source of inspiration Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties. Working style But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality. Exhibitions Nugzar Kakhiani...

Destiny's Path, Hawaii - Surreal Mid Century Hawaiian Figurative Abstract Symbolistic and romantic 1940s surreal figurative of pastel orange figure...

"Don't be afraid, Step into the world I frequent. Luminescent stones light a rock path beneath the translucent stream. Through the waterfall, into the staircase. Take my hand, let's relearn together." -Shannon Ewing...