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Item Ships From: Latvia
Portrait. 1975, oil on plywood, 32x27, 5 cm
By Robert Elibekyan
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1975, oil on plywood, 32x27,5 cm
Abstract portrait
Robert Elibekyan (1941) (Armenian: Ռոբերտ Էլիբեկյան; born 21 April 1941) is an Armenian pa...
Category
1970s Abstract Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Plywood
Pandora games. 2010, canvas, oil, 57x77 cm
By Igor Maikov
Located in Riga, LV
Pandora games. 2010, canvas, oil, 57x77 cm
Category
2010s Medieval Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A light sensation. 2008, cardboard, oil, 60x84 cm
By Igor Maikov
Located in Riga, LV
A light sensation. 2008, cardboard, oil, 60x84 cm
Category
Early 2000s Medieval Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Fabulous stories by live fire. 2002, canvas, oil, 80x106 cm
By Igor Maikov
Located in Riga, LV
Fabulous stories by live fire. 2002, canvas, oil, 80x106 cm
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Caesar on his way to Pompeii. 1999, canvas, oil, 40x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Caesar on his way to Pompeii. 1999, canvas, oil, 40x50 cm
Category
1990s Realist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Madonna. Oil on canvas, 53x48 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Madonna. Oil on canvas, 53x48 cm
Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always comes w...
Category
1970s Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Unbearable Lightness of Being. 2019, canvas, oil, 25x25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Unbearable Lightness of Being. 2019, canvas, oil, 25x25 cm
Abeltina Barbara (1988)
graduated in 2017 from the Art Academy of Latvia with a Master’s degree in painting. She also hol...
Category
2010s Photorealist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait. Oil on canvas, 64x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. Oil on canvas, 64x50 cm
Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always comes ...
Category
1970s Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self portrait. 2019, canvas, oil, 40x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Self portrait. 2019, canvas, oil, 40x30 cm
Abeltina Barbara (1988)
graduated in 2017 from the Art Academy of Latvia with a Master’s degree in painting. She also holds a Master’s de...
Category
2010s Photorealist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boats in the Bay
Located in Sempach, LU
He loves to dive and swim underwater, like when, after many dives, he just lay in the sea with his arms outstretched on his back and rested. Suddenly I felt a movement under me ... a...
Category
2010s Impressionist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lena
Located in Sempach, LU
With a creative approach and strong inspiration, unique and emotional images created with brushes and palette knife on canvas, acrylic and oil,
using also silver and gold leaf is th...
Category
2010s Impressionist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Daughter's portrait. Cardboard, oil, 98x77 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Daughter's portrait. Cardboard, oil, 98x77 cm
Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun a...
Category
1970s Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Portrait. Cardboard, oil, 47x45 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. Cardboard, oil, 47x45 cm
Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always comes...
Category
1970s Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
At the autumn garden. Oil on cardboard, 80 x 57 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At the autumn garden. Oil on cardboard, 80x57 cm
Janis Rikmanis (1901.5.IV – 1968.25.III)
graduated Figurative painting studio of Latvia Art academy (1931).
He took part in exhibiti...
Category
1950s Expressionist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Blue Bananas
Located in Sempach, LU
I am interested in portraits that reveal all the complexity and versatility of a person's spiritual appearance, when the inner content is revealed through the external.
Painting a p...
Category
2010s Impressionist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
IRINA
Located in Sempach, LU
I am interested in portraits that reveal all the complexity and versatility of a person's spiritual appearance, when the inner content is revealed through the external.
Painting a p...
Category
1980s Impressionist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Christmas wish 60X90
Located in Sempach, LU
In the soft embrace of oil pastels, I've lovingly woven a tapestry of pure innocence and wonder. My brushstrokes carry the gentle weight of dreams, as this young muse, with fairy win...
Category
2010s Expressionist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A woman. 1962. Oil on canvas, 80x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A woman. 1962. Oil on canvas, 80x60 cm
Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always ...
Category
1960s Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Japanese girl. Mixed media on cardboard 60x43 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Japanese girl. Mixed media on cardboard 60x43 cm
Ivars Zaikins (1942-2017)
Zaikins Ivars - an artist. He was born in 1942. During of the Soviet Union period, he worked as an artist...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.5 x 40.6 cm
By Raimonds Staprаns
Located in Riga, LV
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.5 x 40.6 cm
Provenance Bonhams
Category
1950s Expressionist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm
By Raimonds Staprаns
Located in Riga, LV
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Provenance Bonhams
Category
1950s Expressionist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Asian girl portrait Teddy bear innocence toys pink soft colors fine art classic
Located in Sempach, LU
Girl with Teddy bear / Tender innocence
This is one of my favorite artworks painted from nature.
Painting are on stretched canvas come ready to hang. This is the “hidden frame”...
Category
2010s Academic Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sounds in colors. 2023., canvas, oil, 90x70 cm
By Igor Maikov
Located in Riga, LV
Sounds in colors. 2023., canvas, oil, 90x70 cm
Category
2010s Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sparks of joy. 2023, canvas, oil, 70x60 cm
By Igor Maikov
Located in Riga, LV
Sparks of joy. 2023, canvas, oil, 70x60 cm
Category
2010s Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beautiful woman figurative portrait oil painting from narure by Maria Matveyeva
Located in Sempach, LU
This artwork are one of my favorite, wonderful model portrait painted from nature.
This painting is on stretched canvas and comes with aged gold frame, but can be sent without it ...
Category
2010s Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Princess with a frog. 2014. Oil on canvas, 20x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Princess with a frog. 2014. Oil on canvas, 20x20 cm
Dagnia Cherevichnik (1974)
Born in 1974 in Riga.
Professional education:
1986-1993 – J. Rozentals Riga Art Secondary School;
1995...
Category
2010s Contemporary Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Actress Oil on cardboard, 48x33.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Actress
Oil on cardboard, 48x33,5 cm
Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always c...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Portrait. On a yellow background 1950's, oil on cardboard, 49.5x35 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. On a yellow background
1950's, oil on cardboard, 49,5x35 cm
Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not ...
Category
1950s Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Dancer 1969. Oil on canvas, 92.5x92.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Dancer
1969. Oil on canvas, 92,5x92,5 cm
The artist's portrayal of the dancer captures the grace and elegance associated with ballet. The ballerina's pose and body language convey ...
Category
1960s Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Interior scene Oil on canvas, 40.5x67 cm
By Allesandro Sani
Located in Riga, LV
Interior scene
Oil on canvas, 40,5x67 cm
"Interior Scene" is an oil painting on canvas that depicts a late 19th-century kitchen setting. Through its portrayal of the interior space, figures, and attention to detail, the artwork offers viewers a glimpse into domestic life during that time period, capturing the essence and atmosphere of a bygone era.
Alessandro Sani...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dancer in black leotard 1969. Oil on canvas, 92.5x92.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Dancer in black leotard
1969. Oil on canvas, 92.5x92.5 cm
Painting depicts the slim figure of a woman in a black leotard against a blue curtain with floral patterns. This choice of...
Category
1960s Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Oil on cardboard, 100x92 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait
Oil on cardboard, 100x92 cm
The central focus of the artwork is a woman seated gracefully, elegantly adorned in a beautiful blue dress. Her presence dominates the composit...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Portrait. Paper, pastel, 35.5x23 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. Paper, pastel, 35.5x23 cm
The composition focuses on portraying the facial features and characteristics of a man. The artist has employed a linear style, using bold and de...
Category
20th Century Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Mag 1999, canvas, oil, 74.2x80.3 cm
By Igor Maikov
Located in Riga, LV
Mag 1999, canvas, oil, 74.2x80.3 cm
"Mag" is an intriguing artwork created in 1999 by Igor Maikov. It is a large oil painting on canvas, measuring 74.2x80.3 cm. The painting depicts a portrait of an old lady set...
Category
1990s Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunny face. Bilateral. Cardboard, tempera, 53x35.5 cm
By Vladimir Glushenkov
Located in Riga, LV
Sunny face. Bilateral. Cardboard, tempera, 53x35.5 cm
Vladimir Borisovich Glushenkov (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga.) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator.
Born in Riga in a Russian-Polish-German family.
Vladimir Glushenkov...
Category
1990s Impressionist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Tempera
Tango. 1998, cardboard, oil, 36.5x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tango. 1998, cardboard, oil, 36.5x30 cm
Category
1990s Impressionist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Portrait. 1961. Watercolor on paper, 29, 5x21 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1961. Watercolor on paper, 29,5x21 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her studies...
Category
1960s Impressionist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Aechmea fasciata. 2005. Oil on canvas, 50x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Aechmea fasciata. 2005. Oil on canvas, 50x40 cm
Dagnia Cherevichnik (1974)
Born in 1974 in Riga.
Professional education:
1986-1993 – J. Rozentals Riga Art Secondary School;
1995 - 2...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer. 2021. Oil on canvas, 70x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Summer. 2021. Oil on canvas, 70x70 cm
Colorful bright artwork with two girls
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two friends 1991, cardboard, oil, 31x22.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Two friends
1991, cardboard, oil, 31x22.5 cm
Category
1990s Impressionist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Tattoo me 1 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tattoo me 1
2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
Tattoo me 2 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tattoo me 2
2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
Tattoo me 3 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tattoo me 3
2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
Tattoo me 4 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tattoo me 4
2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socia...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Mixed Media
Wife portrait.Oil on cardboard, 110, 5x72, 5 cm
By Alfejs Bromults
Located in Riga, LV
Wife portrait. Oil on cardboard, 110,5x72,5 cm
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National University at studies to R.Suta, J. Bine and...
Category
1970s Realist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Gypsy woman. 1959., oil on cardboard, 48x37 cm
By Alfejs Bromults
Located in Riga, LV
Gypsy woman. 1959., oil on cardboard, 48x37 cm
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National University at studies to R.Suta, J. Bine and...
Category
1950s Realist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
The Japanese, 1970. Oil on canvas, 100x70 cm
By Jadviga Zjilvinska
Located in Riga, LV
Jadviga Žilvinska (1918-2010) was born in Tallinn.
She grew up in Liepāja, where her great interest in art began and strengthened, which led the young artist to study at the Art Aca...
Category
20th Century Fauvist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The lady on the chair. 1978. Paper, mixed media, 20x12 cm
By Juris Zvirbulis
Located in Riga, LV
The lady on the chair. Paper, mixed media, 20x12 cm
A loose and veiled painting depicts a beautiful woman with a mysterious nature. Colors are mixed freely and combined with graphic elements of dress. Powerful lightning expresses ladies outfit and face.
Information about artist:
Juris Zvirbulis was born in 1944 in Riga.
1970 graduated from the Riga Secondary School of Applied Arts decorators department.
1971 Member Artists' Union of the Latvia.
In 1971 First solo exhibition in the artistic and historical museum of Tukums in Latvia.
In 1974 his illustrations for the A.S. Pushkin's book, "Eugene Onegin" (published Liesma) was awarded at the 7th All-Union competition of books, posters and postcards design (Moscow, USSR).
Significant exhibitions:
1976 - First place in the All-Union Exhibition of Young Artists in Moscow
1983 - Solo exhibition at the Museum of Foreign Art (Riga, Latvia)
1988 - personal exhibition at the Pushkin State Museum (Moscow, Russia)
Museum bought more than 100 of the artist miniatures to collection.
1989 - Group exhibition "Contemporary Soviet Painters from Riga" Edward Nahamkina Art Gallery (New York, USA)
1990 - Group exhibition at the Astra Gallery (Chicago, USA)
1990 - 1992 - works exhibited in the Harmony Gallery (Paris, France)
1992 - Solo exhibition at Gallery Carre d'Or (Paris, France)
1993 - Solo exhibition at the Gallery of the Riga (Riga, Latvia)
1994 - Exhibition in honor of the 50th anniversary at the Latvian National Art Museum, Exhibition Hall Arsenals (Riga, Latvia)
1997 - Solo exhibition at the Gallery of Riga (Riga, Latvia). In cooperation with IBM Latvia and Modo Paper released exhibition catalog.
1998 - Exhibition of watercolors - miniatures at Gallery "Nocturne", Riga
1999 - personal exhibition at the Pushkin State Museum (Moscow, Russia)
2004 - personal exhibition at gallery "Manss" (Jekabpils, Latvia)
2005 - Group exhibition of Latvian-French festival "Amazing Latvia" (in Bourgoin-Jallieu, France).
2011 - Contemporary Art exhibition-fair at Gallery Birkenfeld ArtVilnius'11 (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Group Exhibition-Fair of Lineart Contemporary Art (Ghent, Belgium). Group exhibition at the Art Museum Nerima (Tokyo, Japan)
2012 Released artist album "Retrospective".
Solo exhibition "The Battle of Waterloo would have ended differently ... Dedication to Marshal L.N. Davu." At gallery Birkenfelds.
The artist works in the following genres and techniques: watercolor, painting, drawing, book illustrations, murals for public interiors in Latvia and abroad.
Works in museums and private collections:
At the Latvian National Museum of Art, at collection of Artists' Union of Latvia, Russian Ministry of Culture (Moscow, Russia), the Pushkins` State Museum (Russia), Bank of Latvia, Džeinas Vorhīsas Cimerlī Art Museum, Radzhersa, State University of New Jersey, at collection of Norton and Nancy Dodge nonconformist art of the Soviet Union (US), Vitaly Gotlib (Latvia), and Indra Benjamin...
Category
1970s Naturalistic Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Mixed Media
Folk girl. Paper, watercolor, 110x76 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Folk girl. Paper, watercolor, 110x76 cm
Dzemma Skulme worked in oil, acrylic and water-colors. She developed the theme of the caryatid, wherein she ende...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a little girl with a ball of thread. Oil on cardboard, 46x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait of a little girl with a ball of thread. Oil on cardboard, 46x40 cm
Category
1950s Realist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Girls portrait. Oil on canvas, 81x57 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Girls portrait. Oil on canvas, 81x57 cm
Category
1990s Impressionist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Soldier. 1950. Cardboard, author technique, 39, 5x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Soldier. 1950. Cardboard, author technique, 39,5x20 cm
Artwork depicts a soldier in motion. Author has used a mixed media technique on cardboard. Both the soldier himself and the fe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint, Mixed Media, Cardboard, Stencil, Other Medium
Overflight over the city. 1947, paper, mixed media, 23x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Overflight over the city. 1947, paper, mixed media, 23x20 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his arti...
Category
1940s Modern Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Clown. Oil on canvas, 90X70 cm
By Vadim Kovalev
Located in Riga, LV
Clown. Oil on canvas, 90X70 cm
The artist Vadim Kovalev was born in 1968 in the capital of Latvia, Riga, where he is also presently living and creating his works.
When Vadim was fi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Circus Princess. 2015. Oil on canvas, 65x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Circus Princess. 2015. Oil on canvas, 65x60 cm
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Madonna with baby. Paper, watercolor, 85, 5x62, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Madonna with baby. Paper, watercolor, 85,5x62,5 cm
Dzemma Lia Skulme (born 1925 20 IX - 2019)
Skulme graduated from the Academy of Arts of Latvia, Department of Monumental Painting ...
Category
1980s Impressionist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Doors knocker. Oil on canvas, 90x63 cm
By Vadim Kovalev
Located in Riga, LV
Doors knocker. Oil on canvas, 90x63 cm
The artist Vadim Kovalev was born in 1968 in the capital of Latvia, Riga, where he is also presently living and creating his works.
When Vadi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At work. 1950, oil on cardboard, 49x69 cm
By Alfejs Bromults
Located in Riga, LV
At work. 1950, oil on cardboard, 49x69 cm
Socrealist artworks, women are sorting sprats
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National Uni...
Category
1950s Realist Latvia - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
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