NIKO PIROSMANI

  Niko Pirosmani (Nikoloz Pirosmani), a famous Georgian a famous Georgian artist, is a unique phenomenon in twentieth-century art. He was a self-taught artist whose outstanding gift was his ability to extract the essential from any subject. He was born in the village of Mirzaani Est Georgian region of Kakheti in 1862. Soon after his birth pirosmani,s father  was ruined and the family moved to the faraway place of Shulaveri. His father hired there as a wine-grower  to a rich landowner. After the death of his father the boy was taken in by his father,s former masters who took him in the mid-1870s to Tiflis as Tbilisi was then called. And this beautiful fantastic city became a second home for Niko Pirosmani.
  He started an independent life at the age of 26. He started a workshop and painted signboards together with his companion. But soon bankruptcy came as the logical end. After this he undertook several new business. In short, at the turn of the century  Georgia lost and unlucky "businessman" but acquired a genuine painter.
  This new chapter in Pirosmani,s life was not at all eventful  outwardly besides a few visits back home to Mirzaani and several trips to provincial cities and towns to earn a few coppers. He became a wandering artist, but this was the kind of  life wanted to  lead. His home was the city itself. The homeless  painter lived for the most part wherever he painted. At times he rented  "lodgins" as a rule a caller or a shed, But he never stayed in any place for long.
  The Pirosmani mirrored  in his works is his homeland   Georgia. He created paintings of lasting value by painting signs, portaits, landscapes and genre scenes in the taverns of Tbilisi based on town and village life and the bohemian ways of  Tbilisi.
   Niko Pirosmani created works of striking and unique simplicity. He painted on tin plate or inn walls, on bits of black oil cloth; painted everything that struck his imagination. The whole world admires his celebrated masterpieces: " childless millionaire and a poor Women  wih the  Children," "Three Princes Carousing on the Grass," "The jackass Bridge," "The janitor," "Margot the Actress," etc. His remarkable and tragic life ended in poverty and obscurity. Inn the 1930s a group of art enthusiasts managed to unearth some of his works a discovery that delighted the world.

RENAISSANCE

 The period commonly know as the Renaissance (1400-1600) began in Florence, Italy. It represented a renewed interest in Greek and Roman art and literature. The greatest achievements in art during this period were the perfection of depth perspective, use of colors, and effects of light and shadow. Artists across Europe improved on the ancient artists techniques as no other period had done. The learned were studying  Greek and roman to read the ancient literary classics. There were many advances in  science and technology, discoveries in the New World,  and  changes in religion. The growth of universities throughout Europe helped create a more educated middle class that was to take  over running the government within the following centuries. Europe had come out of the Dark Ages. This idea of rebirth in learning characterized other epochs in history in different parts of the world.
 In A.D 800, Charlemange became king of the Franks and initialed the Carolingian renaissance, which lasted until the end of the ninth century. This period saw beautiful and more modern cities patterned  on Roman architecture.
Charlemange stimulated learning and development of the arts, sponsored a palace academy, established a curriculum  in schools for the nobility created libraries  and changed writing to an improved style of script.
 Kievan Russia also enjoyed century of rebirth some two hundred years later under the able rule of Yaroslav the Wise. Like Charlemange, he founded school, established libraries, and brought about many architectural                                                          achi evements.