Artist Basil Melikishvili

[Анастасия Манукьянц]

Hello! I want to tell about the artist, whose work I really like. Unfortunately, in Russia it is little known, although his work there and Russian collectors.
Vassily Melikishvili - a member of the Union of Artists, member of the International Arts Foundation, member of the Russian-Italian Academy Ferroni, founder of a new trend in the world of art - etnosimvolizma. Open to them a new direction - a way to transfer graphic means of eternal universal truths, space knowledge and higher ideas across traditional ethnic symbols defined cultural and national identity of the artist.
In the opinion of the founder of etnosimvolizma "-" spiritual power inherent in the work of art should directly affect the mental aura and Noosphere space of the person who perceives a work of art, and, accordingly, do not display the biological world, and interact with the subtle spiritual realms. "
The central male image, as in the paintings of "God of Art" (1980), "Sage" (1980), "Arba" (1996), "Creator" (1998), "Orthodox" (2007), "Toastmasters" (2008), present in almost all jobs. It can be read as a self-portrait (despite the lack of resemblance) and regarded as a symbol of personal involvement and responsibility of the author of everything and everyone in creation of the world on canvas. On the other hand, the image of the mustachioed middle-aged mountaineer with a wise eye - a kind of sign, as if the author's personal seal. The hero of his paintings - a man-creator, be it an artist or craftsman, farmer or herdsman, a beekeeper or a trader, fisherman or hunter ... In general, a hard worker and a creator whose image is often sakralizuetsya author in pre-Christian ("God is Art," "God livestock "" Bacchus ") or Orthodox (" Beekeepers "," Holy Family "," Orthodox ") traditions.
The common thread through all the works of Vasily Melikishvili is an eternal theme of the Christian and humanist art of all - the theme of kindness and love of neighbor, a call for peace and harmony. Art masters from Sukhumi, in essence, deeply spiritual and moral, it is based on the precepts of orthodoxy, and expresses his ideals, but devoid of any leaf and edification.
One may agree with one of the researchers of VV Melikishvili that the artist sees the world with eyes wide open the large baby through the prism of mythological stories and images of their ethnic group "... However, the characters are so typical of his paintings, and scenes of life so characteristic of the inhabitants of the Caucasus that genre scenes and multi-figure compositions can serve as an excellent material for the study of local folklore and ethnography. Special likelihood that, in fact, the fruit of imagination and talent of the artist attached to the realities of national life and national culture, accurately and carefully reproduced them: clothes and utensils, tools and weapons, furnishings and architecture, decoration and ornament ... Even the deeply religious in spirit and naive and pathetically painted images of Orthodox saints and Narrative scenes with all the provisions on the canon logo, have a characteristic for the entire creative V. Melikishvili ethnic flair.
  Vassily Melikishvili as a great artist, and has many faces, however, the uniqueness of the artistic concept of multi-stage comprehension controversial and eternal nature of the universe. In his work, Vera, as the highest manifestation of spirituality, combined with loyalty to the centuries-old traditions of the Caucasian peoples, with love in the image of the realities of his everyday life, life style and national character.

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One of the works of Vasily Melikishvili