Zurab Tsereteli Biography Wikipedia

Zurab Tsereteli - photo interview with the artist and sculptor Georgiizakadr Zurab Tsereteli - biography Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli - Georgian, Soviet and Russian sculptor, monumentist, painter, sculptor, teacher. Head of the Academy of Arts in Russia. Childhood and youth, if we talk about the biography of Zurab Konstantinovich, then his life is also “monumental” as his work.

During the period of his work, he managed to create just a huge number of sculptures, a mosaic, panel and paintings around the world. He had more than forty personal exhibitions and a huge number of awards and titles were received. Today, this famous teacher-artist lives in Moscow, where he holds the post of head of the Academy of Arts and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. At the same time, Zurab Tsereteli continues to work and surprise fans of his work with new masterpieces.

One of the most famous monumentalists of our time was born in Tbilisi on January 4 of the year. The formation of the boy and the formation of his aesthetic taste took place under the impressions of what was happening around him. Neither mother nor father had absolutely anything to do with the world of art. Tamara Nizharadze, the mother of the future sculptor, spent her life in caring for children and her wife.

Father Konstantin Tsereteli, held the post of teacher in one of the technical universities. Zurab Tsereteli in his youth, but love for art was instilled in the maternal brother George Nizharadze. The man at one time was a rather famous painter, in whose house the boy not only comprehended the basics of drawing, but also learned a lot of interesting things about art as a whole. Young Zurab entered the State Academy of Arts in Tbilissi when he was eight years old.

In the year, he was already a graduate of the educational institution, which he graduated perfectly. The creative path of the creative biography of the future monumentalist began when the time itself seemed to push the choice in this direction. The sixties, the time of development of virgin lands, industrialization, mass buildings, the solution and adoption of global tasks, relocation - all this forced the young mind to strive for novelty and the desire to make their own contribution.

The position of an artist-architect, who received a talented chain made it possible for a young man to realize his large-scale ideas into reality. Among the most significant works of this period, the embodiment of artistic ideas and the design in such Georgian resorts as Sukhumi, Gagra, Pitsunda and Borjomi. A large part of the work is the mosaic that the artist uses on art objects.

The most memorable examples were the sculptures created in the beginning of the sixties in Abkhazia in the form of a true fantastic inhabitants of the sea depths. Zurab Tsereteli paints a picture except for decorative and artistic work, Zurab Tsereteli becomes a regular participant in the exhibitions. The first significant success in his life came after representing the public a canvas entitled “On the Fight of the World”, as part of the exposition of the same name, which took place in Moscow.

In the year, a personal exhibition of ceremonies was already organized in his native Tbilisi, which was symbolic for the master. Then he was awarded the honorary title "Honored Artist of Georgia." In the same years, the Tserniki does not forget about the expansion of the geography of his work. Orders are pouring on it one by one. In Moscow, this is a cinema house in the period from a year.

Simultaneously with these orders, Zurab Tsereteli, taking the post of chief artist of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the USSR since the year, is working on the design of embassy buildings in various foreign countries. To do this, he has to travel a lot, as well as get acquainted with artists and sculptors famous arts in the world. In the native country, work also does not become less, and the features on the eve of the Olympics, which was supposed to be held in Moscow in the year.

In the same year, Zurab Tsereteli was awarded the title of "People's Artist" of the Soviet Union. Then the process of their creation began, which ended with the presentation of work under the name "Happiness to children of the whole world." After a while, in the year the author represented his second masterpiece - “Friendship forever”, which was dedicated to the two hundredth anniversary of the signing of the St.

George Treatise between Georgia and Russia. In the same year, the "Arc of Friendship" in his native Georgia was opened. The work was a panel from a mosaic that has been preserved until today, and as before, it pleases the locals and guests of the country passing along the military road near the Crusade. The friendship monument forever is in the biography of the master several works of artists of art.

All the numerous bronze busts were made by the sculptor of the Zuraz Tsereteli. There were a master and scandals in the creative life and one of them is connected with a monument to the great Russian emperor Peter the Great. The public and the inhabitants of the capital were extremely negative about the appearance of sculpture, saying that it would quote the view of the city. The king was fulfilled at full height and placed on the deck of a huge sailboat.The first time after the installation, some even offered to demolish this masterpiece, but the sculpture for the day is on an artificial island made in the middle of the Moscow River.

At the same time, this work of the sculptor is one of the largest in the whole city with its weight more than tons and a height of ninety -two meters. So it was with the "Adam apple" after the installation of which, Zurab Konstantinovich was accused of bad taste. After the appearance of a “Tales of Tales” in the open gallery of the arts of the “Tales”, the sculptor heard about gigantomania.

However, the famous master himself reacts absolutely calmly to any criticism.

I’m an artist, I know what I’m doing, ”the master said answering the question“ interlocutor ”. They may be familiar.