Omar Chkhaidze (born 16 April 1944) a Georgian, Russian painter and artist.

Contents

1 Biography 2 Art style 3 Technique of painting 4 Paintings by the artist 5 References

Biography

Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, the artist has received versatile and serious art education. Omar Chkhaidze studied with the best artists of Georgia and USSR. Omar graduated from Art School in 1966, then the Academy of Arts in Tbilisi 1973.

Whilst still a student Omar participated in numerous art exhibitions in Georgia and Russia. Later he had exhibitions in many countries of the world. The most significant from them:

• 1964 - Tbilisi, Georgia
• 1966 - Tbilisi, Moscow
• 1968 - Tbilisi,
• 1969 - Tbilisi, Leningrad
• 1970 - Paris, France
• 1977 - Tbilisi
• 1982 - Tbilisi
• 1988 - Tbilisi
• 1992 - Austria
• 1993 - Germany
• 1994 - Tbilisi
• 1996 - Moscow
• 1997 - Moscow
• 1999 - Moscow, Holland
• 2000 - Moscow
• 2001 - Moscow, Italy
• 2002 - Moscow, New York, Germany
• 2003 - Moscow, Holland
• 2004 - London, Tbilisi, Moscow, Australia

Paintings by Omar Chkhaidze are in museums of Russia and Georgia; in the collection of the Pope in Vatican, in galleries and private collections of Holland, England, Russia, Switzerland, USA, Japan, Israel, India, Turkey, Spain, France, Portugal, Canada, Belgium, Germany, Czechia, Austria, Poland, Yugoslavia, Russia and Georgia. The artist has Art Gallery of his paintings in Moscow, Russia.

The artist has the personal catalogue "100 Paintings by Omar Chkhaidze" and his paintings are in the catalogue "The Best artists of Russia of the Millennium's Boundary".

In Russia and Georgia his creativity is marked by the rank "Deserved artist of Georgia ". The artist Omar Chkhaidze is the member "Union of artists of the USSR ", "Union of artists of Georgia ", "International Federation of Artists UNESCO ". He is the winner of exhibitions "Gold Brush - '1999-2002' ".

In the end of XX century and the beginning of XXI century Omar Chkhaidze obtains the recognition as one of the most interesting artists of Georgia and Russia of XX century. Now the artist has a world recognition.

Art style

Style of the artist and depth of images in paintings by Omar Chkhaidze frequently are compared with such Great Old Masters of a brush as Amedeo Modigliani (the Italian artist 1884 - 1920) and Yan Vermeer (the Dutch artist 1632 - 1675). All these great artists are united by one: "The Human face is the supreme creation of a Nature", - sincerely considered these artists. Artist Omar Chkhaidze has found the harmonious balance - vision of beauty of the world which has found the response in many hearts. His portraits and compositions of the spiritual cycle have salutary emotional influence on the person, ennobling soul. Omar's paintings has not a broken down manner by Modigliani but just as Vermeer, Omar Chkhaidze inhales life at images on artist's canvases.

Some art-critices names creative manner of Omar Chkhaidze as symbolism or associative-metaphorical style, others names artist style as classical avant-gardism . But all agree that master has created the individual unique style, and the unique technique of painting . Artist shows beauty of the world through fine lines and spatial depth of images.

The master has named one of his works the "Universe", because Universe is collected и is reflected as in a drop of water in this painting. This metaphor can be applied to many other paintings of the artist. For example, his painting "Adam and Eve". Educated audience feels Divine presence in each paintings by Omar Chkhaidze. His paintings are like visual aids which helps us to love everything created by the Creator.

Omar Chkhaidze transfers beauty of human soul through the spiritualized female images: Virgin in the painting "Escape to Egypt" or loving mother in the painting "Caress". The image of the beloved woman the artist has embodied on the painting "Lileo". Beautiful, lovely, kind, gentle and even coquettish female faces are on the paintings by the artist.

Opening the world of this surprising artist, you can feel pleasure of the life filled with love and harmony, and to have an opportunity to touch to Eternity.

Omar Chkhaidze's Weltanschauung having absorbed a wisdom of the east and the west, originates in centuries-old Georgian culture. His creativity is not limited to frameworks of time and space - it has really space scale. Creativity of the artist of Omar Chkhaidze is a new word in painting. This is the art of the third millennium, art of the future.

Technique of painting

Paintings by Omar Chkhaidze are not afraid of time, are lifted above time. And in five hundred years his paintings will look as today - perfect and intact. The pride and the secret of the artist is his art technique. Each painting has some hundreds layers of a transparent paint and the special structure's varnish. Therefore and in five hundred years of the paints on canvases of the master will be same bright as now. Sometimes the artist takes up to some years on creation of the masterpiece. The master has learned such patience at the great predecessors.

Paintings by the artist

References

To look the full collection of paintings and to ask the artist you can at the address:

Omar Chkhaidze's Gallery
Exhibition of paintings by Omar Chkhaidze
Exhibition of paintings by Omar Chkhaidze